Minnesota Twins

The Minnesota Wild beat the Vegas Golden Knights 2-0 Monday night. Star Tribune Sports Columnist Jim Souhan joined me on WJON today. He says the Wild are looking like the 2nd best team in the West Division behind Vegas with lots of games to play. Souhan says rookie Kirill Kaprizov is well known nationally by NHL experts as an emerging talent.

The Minnesota Wild took down first-place Vegas, the SCSU baseball team lost a third straight game and there was a full night of high school sports in Central Minnesota. Here's a recap of the action from Monday.

The Twins posted a 8-4 win over the Tampa Bay Rays in spring training baseball Sunday in Fort Myers, Florida. Left hander Lewis Thorpe started the game for the Twins and threw 1 shutout inning. Thorpe is out of options which means he'll need to make the team out of camp or the Twins would have to expose him to waivers. Star Tribune Sports Columnist Jim Souhan joined me on WJON today.

This weekend, St. Cloud State men's hockey wrapped up the regular season, SCSU women's basketball learned whether it made the NCAA Tournament, the Twins exhibition schedule continued and the Wild split a pair of games in the desert.

Former Timberwolves star Kevin Garnett posted yesterday that he has ended his pursuit of buying the Timberwolves. He isn't happy about it either taking shots at Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor. Star Tribune Sports Columnist Jim Souhan joined me on WJON today.

The Minnesota Wild lost 5-1 at Las Vegas against the Knights Wednesday night. Star Tribune Sports Columnist Jim Souhan joined me on WJON today. He says the Wild decision to make Zach Parise a healthy scratch was intended to send a message and will likely be a one-time thing.

Wednesday was not a good day to be a Minnesota sports fan as the Twins, Wolves, Gophers and Wild all got blown out by their respective opponents to post an 0-4 day collectively.

The Twins play a spring training game against the Boston Red Sox in Fort Myers, Florida today at 12:05, pregame on WJON at 12:00. Star Tribune Sports Columnist Jim Souhan joined me on WJON today. He says Kenta Maeda by virtue of his performance last season is the Twins' top starting pitcher.

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The Twins defeated Tampa Bay 6-5 in spring training baseball Monday. Brent Rooker his a 2-run home run for Minnesota in the win. Star Tribune Sports Columnist Jim Souhan says if the Twins decide to wait to bring up prospect Alex Kiriloff to play left field the Twins could go with Brent Rooker.