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Wild's potent penalty kill and Kaprizov's scoring milestones meet Boldy's streak in a crucial clash as they wrap up their road trip in Seattle.
The Seattle Kraken are at home Monday evening, Dec. 8, facing the Minnesota Wild. The puck drops at 7 p.m. at Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle, and will be broadcast on KONG. Pregame coverage starts at 5:30 p.
Friday night's Wild game against the Colorado Avalanche sounded different from the opening face off, with the entire broadcast called in Ojibwe as part of Native American Heritage Day.
The Wild could split up Kaprizov and Boldy, and the Marcus Johansson-Eriksson Ek-Boldy line has been their main shutdown group. It allowed the likes of Foligno, Nico Sturm and Yakov Trenin to play together (when healthy).
It was a Minnesota Wild game unlike any other, and it all had to do with this call of the game. Photojournalist Nick Lunemann and Derek James take us inside the booth, where three announcers helped make NHL history while honoring a language rooted in this land.
On Friday, Nov. 28, the Minnesota Wild hosted the Colorado Avalanche at 2:30 p.m. CST for a landmark occasion: the first National Hockey League game ever broadcast entirely in the Ojibwe language. The special broadcast — part of the Wild’s celebration of Native American Heritage Day — was offered via FanDuel Sports Network and made possible in partnership with Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe,