The word(s) from Minnesota
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For some Monday morning reading, just thought I'd pass along a couple of the game stories out of Minnesota from yesterday. The stories are fairly Wild-heavy of course, but you might enjoy the photo gallery on one of them, at least...

J.P. Hoornstra writes about NHL and IHL hockey for the Los Angeles Newspaper Group. He welcomes any and all dialogue on the finer points of hockey.
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Jill Painter joined the Daily News in 2000 and during the last eight years she's covered the Dodgers, Cal State Northridge, UCLA, Kings, golf and everything in between. Even though she's from Colorado, she still freezes in the Staples Center press box but always manages to thaw her fingers in time to make deadline. E-mail Jill at 

Rich!
Love the "John Torchetti era" line.
Hahaha - you rock man.
Aaron
Im sorry that mat is gone, But omg rich your stuff is alot better, in fact your on the ball all the time. I really missed having you post