Jero the Minnesota Wild fanbase is a tricky one to engage because they honestly do NOT participate like that of other fanbases especially the original six teams and canadian teams.

Our group here is very smart group of Minnesota Wild fans that CHOOSE to participate at Hockeybuzz. That is where I come from Eric our site runner at HB featured a couple of my MyHockeybuzz fan blogs and offered me a gig after I submitted my other writing contributions elsewhere.

looking around the inter-webs though not many successful or stable Minnesota Wild content sites exist so it is really just Russo & Graf as beat writers and a smattering of randos. Still doing as much pushing as I do all over social media it is tough to get Minnesota Wild fans to latch on and engage although not to toot my own horn but for the month of JUNE 2014 I had 74K unique views for my content which is validating that my content is being seen at a kinda crazy rate!

There is a Fan Blog site out there that does all right for themselves too.

My friend Derek Felska who has his own site State of Hockey News does good work he is the gentlemen I colloborated with on the State of the Wild Podcast before the Draft & FA.

Believe you me, I try to strategize on how to build the community of hockey fans/opinions/takes and foster very intelligent hockey discussions here at the WildHBcommunity. I have even branched out to pushing Ek and others to include me in Webcasts to make sure we talk MNWild hockey!
- Tony Dean

Keep it going man, it's good to see a writer with integrity. But if you do get desperate for hits, let me give you a list if sure fire winners ....you just might want to get a Mod to keep things under control though .

"Avoiding the Oilers curse: how to develop young players the right way"

"Attracting quality free agents:Why Minnesota has become the destination where Vancouver and Toronto no longer are"

" wild a great example for the Sabres to follow".

I'm sure you can write pieces on all of those subjects.

We all seem to be hopeful of that. While the idea of Haula centering Zucker and Nino seems exciting, how realistic is it to think Yeo would actually go through with it? He can preach about improving the offense all he wants, but he is a defensive minded coach and I'm afraid that he may let that get in the way of trying out line possibilities such as the one I suggested. Maybe he's been on the bench long enough now, that he is comfortable enough to experiment with the lines and not be so adamant about having defensively sound players on each and every line to make up for a guy like Zucker, who hasn't developed that part of his game quite yet
- SotaPopinski

So if one of the lines is Niederreiter-Haula-Zucker, who do you want to see together on the other lines?

The thing I don't like about that line is that Nino is good on the wall and I'm not sure the other guys are. I think you could see a lot of possession die on the wall after Nino gives the puck up. I know most of us had liked the look of that Niederreiter-Koivu-Coyle line because they all seem to complement each other pretty well and they could still be our best two way line - good checkers but capable of generating a lot of offensive chances.

I like the idea of playing Zucker on a fast line with quick offensive minded guys where there a lot of bang-bang type plays. I think if he can get playing a faster game, the all-around game might come to him a little quicker. I think Parise is a better fit for that but there would be some concerns defensively on that line. Still I really liked the chemistry I saw with Parise and Haula when they played some shorthanded shifts together and I think if you add a Zucker to that line, it could be a dangerous scoring line and could be what Zucker needs to take the next step.