OTTAWA — Fabulous news!



The “So You Think You Can Dance” tour isn’t coming to Canadian Tire Centre on Friday like it did Dec. 18, 2009, so the arena is available for the Wild to conduct practice at the game rink as opposed to the practice rink.



You can bet that’s one giant relief for Tony DaCosta, the Wild’s popular head equipment manager for the past 19 years.



Being back in Ottawa always brings back bad memories for DaCosta of nine years ago when the Wild’s equipment caught fire in the back of the Ottawa Senators’ equipment truck during the short drive between the Kanata Recreation Complex and what was then called Scotiabank Place.



It created a frantic 17 hours for the Wild, their trainers and their players, many of whom lost most or all of their equipment.



Martin Havlat, Andrew Ebbett, Cal Clutterbuck, Antti Miettinen, John Scott and Nick Schultz lost everything.



Shane Hnidy lost...