Good late afternoon from Xcel Energy Center.
I trust you've seen the schedule. Games 1 and 2 on Friday and Sunday in Chicago, Games 3 and 4 on Tuesday and Thursday in St. Paul.
Get your beauty sleep early because they're all going to be late nights.
Any single-game tickets released for home playoff games in Round 2 will be made available through Ticketmaster and the Xcel Energy Center Box Office. The Wild encourages fans to frequently check ticketmaster.com for availability and visit wild.com/ticketexchange to locate legitimate tickets being re-sold.
I will be hosting a live podcast at the Liffey at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, so come on down or listen on souhanunfiltered.com or iHeart Radio or subscribe on iTunes.
This will be another fairly large cut and paste quote blog toward the bottom because this day got away from me and I need to get out of here because I have tickets to a thing tonight and I'm already LATE for dinner.
If you didn't see today's stuff, go to startribune.com/wild for my advance on the series, a Blackhawks notebook led with Bryan Bickell and his Wild killerness, a Chip Scoggins' column on the job Mike Yeo did this season as coach and a look at this year's Blackhawks-Wild series.
In Wednesday's Star Tribune, I wrote a feature on Nino Niederreiter, Patrick Reusse wrote a column and there's a notebook with a lot of the stuff you'll see here.