Thomas Vanek to the Minnesota Wild for $40 million?

The Minnesota Wild are headed to a game 7 with the Colorado Avalanche Wednesday night. The Wild beat the Avalanche 5-2 at the Xcel Energy Center Monday.

While there might be many suitors, there's really only one destination mentioned prominently for Vanek: The Minnesota Wild, the state where he played his college hockey and the team on which his close friend Jason Pominville plays. It's pretty much the

The Minnesota Wild gave Zach Parise all that money for games like this. Parise signed that megadeal two years ago for games even bigger than this. They forced at least one more with a furious finish. Parise scored early and late on tipped shots, and

When the Avalanche left Colorado, they had a 2-0 series lead against the Minnesota Wild and Nathan MacKinnon seemed poise to cement his legend at 18. MacKinnon's fine, but a lot has changed in this best-of-seven set as the series returns to Colorado

After a few games without making everybody's jaws drop, Nathan MacKinnon is back to terrorizing the Minnesota Wild. The Colorado Avalanche rookie scored seven points in his first two playoff games, and now that the Avs