Minnesota Wild Hockey Official Pondcast

The 2009 Wild Development Camp is on the ice and we caught up with a number of guys including Nick Leddy, Cody Almond, Carson McMillan and Matt Hackett plus Dave Barr and Kevin Constantine.

Shane Hnidy is busy fishing somewhere in Canada but he takes time out from dipping his line to talk about joining the Minnesota Wild.

Heading into the holiday weekend the Wild brought Martin Havlat into St. Paul to meet the media. We'll catch up with him plus hear about the assistant coaches and talk to Todd Richards.

Wild GM Chuck Fletcher has been busy in the first couple of days of free agency but he takes a brief break from the action to address the media via a teleconference.

July 1 the Wild sign Martin Havlat to a 6-year deal and today he chats about coming to Minnesota with the PONDcast.

Greg Zanon joins the Wild from Nashville as he signs as a free agent on July 1st.

Wild GM Chuck Fletcher talks to the media on Tuesday evening before heading into the NHL's free agency period on Wednesday morning.

Wild GM Chuck Fletcher announced the hiring of Jim Mill as Assistant GM for the Minnesota Wild.

Wild GM Chuck Fletcher addresses the media on who the Wild made qualifying offers to Monday afternoon and some of the reasons for not making them to others.

Wild 2009 first round draft pick Nick Leddy met with the media in the Wild lockerroom on Monday afternoon plus took some time for the PONDcast.

Wild 3rd round pick Matt Hackett talks to the NHL Network about coming to the Minnesota Wild.

Wild GM Chuck Fletcher talks to the NHL Network about what the Wild did in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft.

Tommy Thompson drops by one last time from Montreal to help recap the final day of the 2009 NHL Entry Draft.

The Wild draft G Matt Hackett in the 3rd round, #77 overall and the PONDcast catches with him to find out how it feels to be drafted and more.

The Wild made a trade with the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday morning and part of the deal involved Kyle Brodziak. We caught up with Brodziak from the golf course and welcomed him to the State of Hockey.

The Wild have concluded round #1 of the 2009 NHL Entry Draft and Wild Asst GM Tommy Thompson takes a break to recap the action.

Nick Leddy was drafted by the Wild #16 overall and the PONDcast caught up with him to share in the excitement from Montreal.

New Wild Head Coach Todd Richards joined Sid Hartman and Mike Max on Sunday morning on WCCO's "The Sports Huddle"

The 2009 NHL Entry Draft is Friday night from Montreal. This afternoon Chuck Fletcher and Tommy Thompson met with the media to talk strategy and more heading into next weekend.

Friday the Wild will conduct a NHL Draft Preview Press Conference but we couldn't wait. So we caught up with Tommy Thompson to give you a preview to the preview.