Preview: Wild wrapping up preseason hosting Stars

Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty ImagesThe training and preparing and planning is largely over. With the cold starting to creep into our lives, so does the NHL regular season and so does the Minnesota Wild playing games that actually matter.

When: 5:00 p.m. CT

Where: Xcel Energy Center

TV: Bally Sports North, BSSW, NHL Network

Radio: KFAN 100.3

It all starts with this final preseason game, against the Dallas Stars, as a quasi dress rehearsal for the real thing and trying to leave enough of an impression that can make us confident heading into the 2022-23 regular season and sure of our own want of the Wild being a team that really matters after 82 games and will continue playing several more after…