I'll be hosting a live chat on startribune.com Wednesday at noon, so please stop by with your Wild and NHL questions.

I'll also be on KFAN with Paul Allen Friday morning at 10.

I went down to St. Thomas this morning, and the entire Wild NHL roster was down there skating.

The Wild just released its training camp roster, but that will expand in a few days when the Wild promotes a bunch of youngsters from the Traverse City Prospects Tournament.

Players report for training camp Friday. Friday will entail of physicals, fitness testing and photos. The first on-ice sessions begin Saturday.

The Wild will hold scrimmages Saturday and Sunday that will be open to the public from 10-11 a.m. at Xcel Energy Center.

Gate 1 at the X opens at 9:50 a.m.

Here is the prelim roster:

2011-12 MINNESOTA WILD TRAINING CAMP ROSTER

LEFT WINGS HT WT SHOOTS BORN BIRTHPLACE 2010-11 TEAM LGE GP G A PTS PIM ACQ

96 Pierre-Marc Bouchard 5-10 173 Left 4/27/84 Sherbrooke, Quebec Minnesota NHL 59 12 26 38 14 EN/02

18 Colton Gillies 6-4 207 Left 2/12/89 Surrey, British Columbia Houston AHL 64 11 15 26 82 EN/07

28 Matt Kassian 6-5 240 Left 10/28/86 Edmonton, Alberta Houston AHL 60 4 4 8 132 EN/05

48 Guillaume Latendresse 6-2 230 Left 5/24/87 Sainte-Catherine, Quebec Minnesota NHL 11 3 3 6 8 TRD/09

23 Eric Nystrom 6-1 193 Left 2/14/83 Syosset, New York Minnesota NHL 82 4 8 12 30 FA/10



CENTERS HT WT SHOOTS BORN BIRTHPLACE 2010-11 TEAM LGE GP G A PTS PIM ACQ

27 Cody Almond 6-2 221 Left 7/24/89 Calgary, Alberta Houston AHL 65 15 19 34 124 EN/07

21 Kyle Brodziak 6-2 209 Right 5/25/84 St. Paul, Alberta Minnesota NHL 80 16 21 37 56 TRD/09

7 Matt Cullen 6-1 200 Left 11/2/76 Virginia, Minnesota Minnesota NHL 78 12 27 39 34 FA/10

9 Mikko Koivu 6-2 214 Left 3/12/83 Turku, Finland Minnesota NHL 71 17 45 62 50 EN/01

45 Carson McMillan 6-1 190 Right 9/10/88 Brandon, Manitoba Houston AHL 78 12 10 22 80 EN/07

43 Warren Peters 6-0 201 Left 7/10/82 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Houston AHL 62 15 17 32 47 FA/10

14 Darroll Powe 5-11 212 Left 6/22/85 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Philadelphia NHL 81 7 10 17 41 TRD/11

36 Chad Rau 5-11 188 Right 1/18/87 Eden Prairie, Minnesota Houston AHL 60 13 27 40 12 FA/10

19 Jeff Taffe 6-3 215 Left 2/19/81 Hastings, Minnesota Rockford AHL 74 30 37 67 22 FA/11

17 Casey Wellman 6-0 184 Right 10/18/87 Brentwood, California Houston AHL 42 14 21 35 14 FA/10



RIGHT WINGS HT WT SHOOTS BORN BIRTHPLACE 2010-11 TEAM LGE GP G A PTS PIM ACQ

73 Joel Broda 6-0 208 Left 11/24/89 Prince Albert, Saskatchewan Bakersfield ECHL 32 17 13 30 39 FA/10

22 Cal Clutterbuck 5-10 209 Right 11/18/87 Welland, Ontario Minnesota NHL 76 19 15 34 79 EN/06

29 Jon DiSalvatore 6-1 200 Right 3/30/81 Bangor, Maine Houston AHL 80 28 33 61 57 FA/09

15 Dany Heatley 6-4 220 Left 1/21/81 Freiburg, Germany San Jose NHL 80 26 48 64 56 TRD/11

41 Jed Ortmeyer 6-1 205 Right 9/3/78 Omaha, Nebraska San Antonio/Houston AHL 60 8 11 19 45 FA/11

79 Jarod Palmer 6-0 200 Right 2/10/86 Fridley, Minnesota Houston AHL 65 9 19 28 64 FA/10

10 Devin Setoguchi 6-0 200 Right 1/1/87 Taber, Alberta San Jose NHL 72 22 19 41 37 TRD/11

16 Brad Staubitz 6-1 215 Right 7/28/84 Edmonton, Alberta Minnesota NHL 71 4 5 9 173 TRD/10



DEFENSEMEN HT WT SHOOTS BORN BIRTHPLACE 2010-11 TEAM LGE GP G A PTS PIM ACQ

42 Drew Bagnall 6-3 222 Left 6/3/83 Oakbank, Manitoba Houston AHL 72 0 2 2 112 FA/10

44 Justin Falk 6-5 217 Left 10/11/88 Snowflake, Manitoba Houston AHL 55 3 11 14 41 EN/07

25 Jordan Hendry 6-2 200 Right 2/11/86 Milo, Alberta Chicago NHL 37 1 0 1 4 TRYOUT

2 Mike Lundin 6-2 191 Left 9/24/84 Burnsville, Minnesota Tampa Bay NHL 69 1 11 12 12 FA/11

51 Jeff Penner 5-10 183 Left 4/13/87 Steinbach, Manitoba Providence/Houston AHL 67 5 18 23 38 TRD/11

39 Nate Prosser 6-2 221 Right 5/7/86 Elk River, Minnesota Houston AHL 73 8 19 27 31 FA/10

6 Marco Scandella 6-3 206 Left 2/23/90 Montreal, Quebec Houston AHL 33 3 16 19 17 EN/08

55 Nick Schultz 6-1 203 Left 8/25/82 Strasbourg, Saskatchewan Minnesota NHL 74 3 14 17 38 EN/00

46 Jared Spurgeon 5-8 171 Right 11/29/89 Edmonton, Alberta Minnesota NHL 53 4 8 12 2 FA/10

4 Clayton Stoner 6-3 206 Left 2/19/85 Port McNeill, B.C. Minnesota NHL 57 2 7 9 96 EN/04

5 Greg Zanon 5-11 198 Left 6/5/80 Burnaby, British Columbia Minnesota NHL 82 0 7 7 48 FA/09

3 Marek Zidlicky 5-11 186 Right 2/3/77 Most, Czechoslovakia Minnesota NHL 46 7 17 24 30 TRD/08



GOALTENDERS HT WT CATCHES BORN BIRTHPLACE 2010-11 TEAM LGE GPI W-L-OT SO GAA SV% ACQ

32 Niklas Backstrom 6-1 186 Left 2/13/78 Helsinki, Finland Minnesota NHL 51 22-23-5 3 2.66 .916 FA/06

30 Dennis Endras 6-0 167 Left 7/14/85 Immenstadt, Germany Augsburger GER 46 20-22-4 1 3.14 .900 FA/10

37 Josh Harding 6-2 199 Right 6/18/84 Regina, Saskatchewan Minnesota NHL DNP – Injured EN/02



2011-12 MINNESOTA WILD TRAVERSE CITY PROSPECTS TOURNAMENT ROSTER



FORWARDS HT WT SHOOTS BORN BIRTHPLACE 2010-11 TEAM LGE GP G A PTS PIM ACQ

75Alex Belzile 5-11 188 Right 8/31/91 St-Eloi, Quebec Rimouski QMJHL 64 27 40 67 78 TRYOUT

54 Brett Bulmer 6-2 182 Right 4/26/92 Prince George, B.C. Kelowna WHL 57 18 31 49 109 EN/10

38 Nathan Burns 6-0 165 Left 7/15/93 Edmonton, Alberta Vancouver WHL 59 14 9 23 52 TRYOUT

52 Justin Fontaine 5-10 160 Right 11/6/87 Bonnyville, Alberta Minnesota-Duluth WCHA 42 22 36 58 42 FA/11

72 Kris Foucault 6-1 202 Left 12/12/90 Calgary, Alberta Calgary WHL 65 25 23 48 60 EN/09

53 Tyler Graovac 6-3 179 Left 4/27/93 Brampton, Ontario Ottawa OHL 66 10 11 21 10 EN/11

81 Mike Kramer 5-10 200 Right 8/28/87 St. Paul, Minnesota Princeton ECAC 31 13 18 31 4 TRYOUT

73 Joey Martin 5-10 170 Left 7/29/88 Thorold, Ontario Nebraska-Omaha WCHA 39 11 24 35 14 TRYOUT

57 Tyler Maxwell 5-9 179 Left 4/13/91 Manhattan Beach, California Everett WHL 68 41 25 66 59 TRYOUT

34 David McIntyre 6-0 190 Left 2/4/87 Pefferlaw, Ontario Albany AHL 78 12 18 30 51 TRD/11

83 Taylor Peters 6-3 212 Left 1/24/92 Delta, British Columbia Portland WHL 72 8 11 19 47 TRYOUT

61 Zack Phillips 6-1 175 Right 10/28/92 Fredericton, New Brunswick Saint John QMJHL 67 38 57 95 16 EN/11

80 Carter Sandlak 6-1 190 Left 5/18/93 London, Ontario Belleville OHL 34 9 7 16 44 TRYOUT

82 Dylan Willick 5-10 183 Right 10/19/92 Prince George, B.C. Kamloops WHL 72 24 20 44 53 TRYOUT



DEFENSEMEN HT WT SHOOTS BORN BIRTHPLACE 2010-11 TEAM LGE GP G A PTS PIM ACQ

56 Dylan Busenius 5-11 180 Left 1/30/93 Sherwood Park, Alberta Medicine Hat WHL 63 7 14 21 33 TRYOUT

68 Josh Caron 6-3 215 Left 2/10/91 Campbell River, B.C. Kamloops WHL 27 1 1 2 47 FA/10

26 Tyler Cuma 6-1 198 Left 1/19/90 Toronto, Ontario Houston AHL 31 1 3 4 15 EN/08

59 Kris Fredheim 6-2 195 Right 2/23/87 Campbell River, B.C. Houston AHL 66 3 6 9 24 TRYOUT

65 Chay Genoway 5-9 177 Left 12/20/86 Morden, Manitoba North Dakota WCHA 36 6 31 37 26 FA/11

74 Colton Jobke 6-0 170 Left 4/20/92 Delta, British Columbia Kelowna WHL 51 1 9 10 84 FA/10

62 Sam Lofquist 6-2 205 Right 3/15/90 Somerset, Wisconsin Guelph OHL 62 8 28 36 57 TRYOUT

67 Kyle Medvec 6-6 225 Left 6/16/88 Burnsville, Minnesota Vermont HE 29 2 4 6 28 EN/06



GOALTENDERS HT WT CATCHES BORN BIRTHPLACE 2010-11 TEAM LGE GPI W-L-OT SO GAA SV% ACQ

31 Matt Hackett 6-2 179 Left 3/7/90 London, Ontario Houston AHL 45 23-16-4 2 2.37 .916 EN/09

35 Darcy Kuemper 6-4 200 Left 5/5/90 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Red Deer WHL 62 45-12-5 13 1.86 .933 EN/09

