The first Wild record of the season has been broken.



It took only THIRTEEN seconds for the assembled media to extract the first “touch wood” out of superstitious Bruce Boudreau’s mouth during the Wild coach’s first 2019-20 press scrum Thursday morning.



That much-used Bruceism™ signaled the official start to hockey season.



“Our team is ready to go here,” Boudreau said, “and it seems like, touch wood, most of the guys are healthy. We’ve been waiting a long time for this day. It seems like forever, so let’s get the show started.”



After a long, peculiar offseason highlighted by the late July ousting of his former boss, Boudreau’s ready to put all this summer’s madness behind the Wild and prove all their skeptics wrong.



Boudreau’s a self-professed hockey nerd. There are few bigger joys in his life than when he’s driving his SUV and gets to listen to NHL...