Minnesota Wild Ready to Be Competive This Season and Beyond

October 15th, 2011 by Robert O'Keefe Leave a reply »
Mikko Koivu has to be happy right now.  Koivu, for the first time in his career, is being flanked by an elite pair of wings in former Sharks Dany Heatley and Devin Setoguchi.  Regardless of how good Koivu feels, the trio has certainly looked the part of a dominant scoring line capable of taking over games in the first week of the season.  

The lines' regular season debut was a smashing success as both Heatley and Setoguchi found twine in a Wild victory.  

Mikko Koivu has long been one of the NHL's most under appreciated and invisible stars.  He has a strong two-way game that can be matched by only a handful of the NHL's most complete forwards.  Koivu also possesses an uncanny feel for the game that makes him an ideal facilitator for high-scoring, often-shooting wingers like Setoguchi and Heatley.  

If Koivu wants to emerge as a internationally relevant star—as those who have watched him over the years know he can do—this is the year to do it.  

Behind the Koivu/Heatley/Setoguchi line the Wild have some solid secondary scoring and strong two-way players capable of shutting down opposing t ...

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