The Minnesota Wild’s journey toward a potential Stanley Cup will begin in October against a team that just played for the championship.
Minnesota opens the regular season at home against the Florida Panthers. The Oct. 12 game is the start of three straight matchups against Eastern Conference opponents and four of the first five.
The regular season starts five days after the Wild wrap up the preseason schedule with a home game against the Dallas Stars.
The NHL’sseason schedules were released Tuesday, a day before the start of the league’s Entry Draft, in which Minnesota holds the No.