Judd's Hockey Show - A Minnesota Wild Podcast
Minnesota Wild stay RED HOT with weekend win over Edmonton Oilers!
21 Dec 2025
Chapter 1: What did the Minnesota Wild achieve in their recent game against the Oilers?
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Chapter 2: How has Quinn Hughes impacted the Minnesota Wild's performance?
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Chapter 3: What specific players are contributing to the Wild's current success?
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Chapter 4: What trade targets are being discussed for the Minnesota Wild?
Can they win? Seven consecutive wins is, by the way, right now the longest winning streak in the league. And with this victory, AJ Fredrickson, the Wild now pull, I guess you could say, they pull within... Four points of Dallas, which beat the Shorts off or the Breezers off the Ducks last night in Anaheim. And they are now within eight points of the Avalanche.
So if they win tomorrow in regulation, they could be within six points. And where do we start? So the Oilers come into this game as the fourth leading team in goal scoring this season. They leave here with two goals. The abs are number one.
Chapter 5: How does the team plan to maintain their winning streak?
I mean, this is a legitimate back to back stretch here. And this team just continues to play sound defensively. They continue to score enough to win games. We'll get into it. But guys that weren't scoring are now scoring. And it is really been I mean, it's remarkable right now. And about halfway through the game or more so might have been third period.
I leaned over and asked you a very simple question. I said, how many guys who like a year ago or earlier this season who weren't doing squat are now key contributors? And the last thing before I throw it to you, Age, is the Wild also today in one fell swoop get Brodine, Middleton, Henestrosa, and Zuccarello, who had a couple of assists back.
Chapter 6: What are the implications of the Wild's defensive strategies?
Uh, Bogosian goes on IR, but this team today looked far more like the team that I think was the plan to see. And then you put in Quinn Hughes as well, who, I mean, it's just so silky smooth. So, I mean, it feels legitimate, right? Like it feels as bad as it was in the three, six and three starting Quinn Hughes changes a lot of things, but I,
I'm sure there will be some downs at some point in time, but this feels legitimate starting with the fact that they allowed two goals. Defensively, if this was 7-5, I'd be like, okay, that was fun, but you're living dangerously. Two goals against age. Talk me off the ledge of positivity here.
Am I being, because I've been too positive with this team before and it's bitten me right in the rear end, but am I being too positive about what we are currently seeing and sort of thinking that a lot of it is sustainable? Am I wrong?
Chapter 7: How are the Wild's secondary scorers performing this season?
I don't think so. Because we've watched this team go on runs before, Judd, where you know, it's positive and there's a few key takeaways and it's the Kirill Kaprizov show or Matt Boldy has stepped up and then maybe they get some good goaltending, but there's a lot that it's like, Oh, they got lucky here. This one bounce could have gone the other way.
And you know, they're stringing together some points, but at the same time, this feels completely different in the sense where I fully believe they're earning every single point they've gotten over the past week, two weeks, month. They're playing good hockey today. They start hot with a, with a nice little power play goal to kick things off. And then Oilers, I mean, credit them. They answer back.
Chapter 8: What are the expectations for the upcoming games and playoff run?
And it's kind of one of those things where it's like, all right, there's one of two ways. And we've seen this go before where the wild either, you know, they lay down. It's like, it's not our day. It's just fine. But there's this full 60 minutes. They're adjusting. There's credit to John Hines. As somebody pointed out here,
let's go wild pick says in the chat, Heinz did an excellent job with his lines today. Yes, he did. That is spot on. Um, and that was a key factor for most of the game. It was the Eric Sinek line matching up against McDavid and his line. And then on the other side, because there are two superstars that are on the Edmonton Oilers.
It was the Brodine Spurgeon defensive pairing, matching up a lot of the times against dry cycle and his lung. Um, they, they, uh, clearly had a very specific game plan today, which was limit those as much as possible. Throw as many pucks on that as possible.
but also it's the depth scoring your, your point about on the, on the guys who are kind of coming out of nowhere, raising the expectations guys that we, we on this show have, have ragged on multiple times, Marcus Johansson. He's having a heck of a year for a guy making $800,000.
I didn't think at this point in the season, if you would have told me on day one of the, of the season that I would be displeased with him, I would have slapped you across the face. Danila you're off. He's having a heck of a year, too. I mean, we kind of saw the lack of confidence by the coaching staff in him now on the third line today, according to the line sheets.
But in terms of how he's been playing recently, that line has been buzzing with Trenion and Tarasenko. And those are two other guys right there who I think have a massive impact on why they've had success recently. Yakov Trenion, he was kind of the punching bag on this show last season. He came in more in shape. He shows a little more hustle.
He's not finishing maybe a lot of the times and chances he's getting, but that's not his game, and that's totally fine. But on this line, as of late, the past, I think it's been three games, four games maybe, He's been really, really, really impressive. Like kudos to him and Vladimir Tarasenko. Didn't move the needle for me whatsoever in the off season when they acquired him.
In the first 20, 25 games, I think I was proven right. I don't know what's clicked. I don't know if the month that maybe he's a huge Christmas fan or I'm not sure exactly what it is, but the past few games, Vladimir Tarasenko has been looking like his vintage self. The effort there was never really a question, and I think he would agree with that.
He clearly was trying, and things just weren't going his way, but suddenly the stars have aligned, and
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