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The 2002–03 Minnesota Wild season was the team's third season in the National Hockey League (NHL). After qualifying for the Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time in franchise history, the Wild won two playoff series before losing in the Western Conference Final to the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim.
2002–03 Minnesota Wild | |
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Division | 3rd Northwest |
Conference | 6th Western |
2002–03 record | 42–29–10–1 |
Home record | 25–13–3–0 |
Road record | 17–16–7–1 |
Goals for | 198 |
Goals against | 178 |
Team information | |
General manager | Doug Risebrough |
Coach | Jacques Lemaire |
Captain | Rotating[1] Brad Bombardir (Oct.–Nov.) Matt Johnson (Dec.) Sergei Zholtok (Jan.) Brad Bombardir (Feb.–Apr.) |
Alternate captains | Jim Dowd Wes Walz |
Arena | Xcel Energy Center |
Average attendance | 18,500 |
Minor league affiliate(s) | Houston Aeros Louisiana IceGators |
Team leaders | |
Goals | Marian Gaborik (30) |
Assists | Marian Gaborik (35) |
Points | Marian Gaborik (65) |
Penalty minutes | Matt Johnson (201) |
Plus/minus | Pascal Dupuis (+17) |
Wins | Dwayne Roloson (23) |
Goals against average | Dwayne Roloson (2.00) |
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The Wild tied the Calgary Flames, Nashville Predators and Pittsburgh Penguins for most times shut-out with 10.[2]
No. | CR | GP | W | L | T | OTL | GF | GA | Pts | |
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1 | 3 | Colorado Avalanche | 82 | 42 | 19 | 13 | 8 | 251 | 194 | 105 |
2 | 4 | Vancouver Canucks | 82 | 45 | 23 | 13 | 1 | 264 | 208 | 104 |
3 | 6 | Minnesota Wild | 82 | 42 | 29 | 10 | 1 | 198 | 178 | 95 |
4 | 8 | Edmonton Oilers | 82 | 36 | 26 | 11 | 9 | 231 | 230 | 92 |
5 | 12 | Calgary Flames | 82 | 29 | 36 | 13 | 4 | 186 | 228 | 75 |
Note: CR = Conference rank; GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; OTL = Overtime loss; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; Pts = Points
Bolded teams qualified for the playoffs.
R | Div | GP | W | L | T | OTL | GF | GA | Pts | |
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1 | Z- Dallas Stars | PA | 82 | 46 | 17 | 15 | 4 | 245 | 169 | 111 |
2 | Y- Detroit Red Wings | CE | 82 | 48 | 20 | 10 | 4 | 269 | 203 | 110 |
3 | Y- Colorado Avalanche | NW | 82 | 42 | 19 | 13 | 8 | 251 | 194 | 105 |
4 | X- Vancouver Canucks | NW | 82 | 45 | 23 | 13 | 1 | 264 | 208 | 104 |
5 | X- St. Louis Blues | CE | 82 | 41 | 24 | 11 | 6 | 253 | 222 | 99 |
6 | X- Minnesota Wild | NW | 82 | 42 | 29 | 10 | 1 | 198 | 178 | 95 |
7 | X- Mighty Ducks of Anaheim | PA | 82 | 40 | 27 | 9 | 6 | 203 | 193 | 95 |
8 | X- Edmonton Oilers | NW | 82 | 36 | 26 | 11 | 9 | 231 | 230 | 92 |
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9 | Chicago Blackhawks | CE | 82 | 30 | 33 | 13 | 6 | 207 | 226 | 79 |
10 | Los Angeles Kings | PA | 82 | 33 | 37 | 6 | 6 | 203 | 221 | 78 |
11 | Phoenix Coyotes | PA | 82 | 31 | 35 | 11 | 5 | 204 | 230 | 78 |
12 | Calgary Flames | NW | 82 | 29 | 36 | 13 | 4 | 186 | 228 | 75 |
13 | Nashville Predators | CE | 82 | 27 | 35 | 13 | 7 | 183 | 206 | 74 |
14 | San Jose Sharks | PA | 82 | 28 | 37 | 9 | 8 | 214 | 239 | 73 |
15 | Columbus Blue Jackets | CE | 82 | 29 | 42 | 8 | 3 | 213 | 263 | 69 |
Divisions: PA – Pacific, CE – Central, NW – Northwest
Z – Clinched Conference; Y – Clinched Division; X – Clinched Playoff spot
The Wild are the only team in NHL history to rally back from 3–1 down twice in the same playoff.
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October: 8–1–2–0 (home: 6–1–0–0; road: 2–0–2–0)
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November: 5–6–3–0 (home: 2–3–3–0; road: 3–3–0–0)
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December: 7–4–2–1 (home: 4–2–0–0; road: 3–2–2–1)
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January: 5–7–1–0 (home: 2–4–0–0; road: 3–3–1–0)
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February: 7–4–0–0 (home: 4–2–0–0; road: 3–2–0–0)
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March: 9–5–2–0 (home: 6–1–0–0; road: 3–4–2–0)
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April: 1–2–0–0 (home: 1–0–0–0; road: 0–2–0–0)
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Legend:
Win (2 points) Loss (0 points) Tie (1 point) Overtime loss (1 point) |
2003 Stanley Cup playoffs[4] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Western Conference Quarterfinals vs. (3) Colorado Avalanche – Wild win 4–3
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Western Conference Semifinals vs. (4) Vancouver Canucks – Wild win 4–3
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Western Conference Finals vs. (7) Anaheim Mighty Ducks – Mighty Ducks win 4–0
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Legend:
Win Loss |
No. | Player | Pos | Regular season | Playoffs | ||||||||||
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GP | G | A | Pts | +/- | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | +/- | PIM | |||
10 | Marian Gaborik | RW | 81 | 30 | 35 | 65 | 12 | 46 | 18 | 9 | 8 | 17 | 2 | 6 |
11 | Pascal Dupuis | LW | 80 | 20 | 28 | 48 | 17 | 44 | 16 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 8 |
7 | Cliff Ronning | C | 80 | 17 | 31 | 48 | −6 | 24 | 17 | 2 | 7 | 9 | −3 | 4 |
15 | Andrew Brunette | LW | 82 | 18 | 28 | 46 | −10 | 30 | 18 | 7 | 6 | 13 | −3 | 4 |
33 | Sergei Zholtok | C | 78 | 16 | 26 | 42 | 1 | 18 | 18 | 2 | 11 | 13 | −7 | 0 |
37 | Wes Walz | C | 80 | 13 | 19 | 32 | 11 | 63 | 18 | 7 | 6 | 13 | 5 | 14 |
24 | Antti Laaksonen | LW | 82 | 15 | 16 | 31 | 4 | 26 | 16 | 1 | 3 | 4 | −3 | 4 |
17 | Filip Kuba | D | 78 | 8 | 21 | 29 | 0 | 29 | 18 | 3 | 5 | 8 | −8 | 24 |
34 | Jim Dowd | C | 78 | 8 | 17 | 25 | −1 | 31 | 15 | 0 | 2 | 2 | −1 | 0 |
18 | Richard Park | RW | 81 | 14 | 10 | 24 | −3 | 16 | 18 | 3 | 3 | 6 | −2 | 4 |
96 | Pierre-Marc Bouchard | C | 50 | 7 | 13 | 20 | 1 | 18 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 |
20 | Andrei Zyuzin† | D | 66 | 4 | 12 | 16 | −7 | 34 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 1 | −3 | 14 |
5 | Brad Bombardir | D | 58 | 1 | 14 | 15 | 15 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 |
2 | Willie Mitchell | D | 69 | 2 | 12 | 14 | 13 | 84 | 18 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 14 |
28 | Jeremy Stevenson† | LW | 32 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 6 | 69 | 14 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 12 |
77 | Lubomir Sekeras | D | 60 | 2 | 9 | 11 | −12 | 30 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 2 | −2 | 6 |
55 | Nick Schultz | D | 75 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 11 | 23 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 10 |
16 | Bill Muckalt | RW | 8 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 0 |
12 | Matt Johnson | LW | 60 | 3 | 5 | 8 | −8 | 201 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 |
14 | Darby Hendrickson | C | 28 | 1 | 5 | 6 | −3 | 8 | 17 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 4 |
23 | Jason Marshall | D | 45 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 69 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 16 |
19 | Stephane Veilleux | LW | 38 | 3 | 2 | 5 | −6 | 23 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
25 | Rickard Wallin | C | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
27 | Kyle Wanvig | RW | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 13 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
4 | Brad Brown | D | 57 | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 90 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 16 |
35 | Manny Fernandez | G | 35 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
30 | Dwayne Roloson | G | 50 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | ||
3 | Ladislav Benysek | D | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 8 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
36 | Sylvain Blouin‡ | LW | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
9 | Hnat Domenichelli | LW | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
31 | Dieter Kochan | G | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
38 | Curtis Murphy | D | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
6 | Jean-Guy Trudel | LW | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
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GP | W | L | T | SA | GA | GAA | SV% | SO | TOI | GP | W | L | SA | GA | GAA | SV% | SO | TOI | ||
30 | Dwayne Roloson | 50 | 23 | 16 | 8 | 1334 | 98 | 2.00 | .927 | 4 | 2945 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 257 | 25 | 2.59 | .903 | 0 | 579 |
35 | Manny Fernandez | 35 | 19 | 13 | 2 | 972 | 74 | 2.24 | .924 | 2 | 1979 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 253 | 18 | 1.96 | .929 | 0 | 552 |
31 | Dieter Kochan | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 28 | 5 | 5.00 | .821 | 0 | 60 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Type | Award/honor | Recipient | Ref |
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League (annual) |
Jack Adams Award | Jacques Lemaire | [5] |
League (in-season) |
NHL All-Star Game selection | Marian Gaborik | [6] |
NHL Player of the Week | Marian Gaborik (October 28) | [7] | |
NHL YoungStars Game selection | Nick Schultz | [8] | |
Team | Three Star Award | Dwayne Roloson | [9] |
The Wild were involved in the following transactions from June 14, 2002, the day after the deciding game of the 2002 Stanley Cup Finals, through June 9, 2003, the day of the deciding game of the 2003 Stanley Cup Finals.[10]
Date | Details | Ref | |
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June 22, 2002 | To Minnesota Wild 9th-round pick in 2002 |
To Calgary Flames Jamie McLennan |
[11] |
June 22, 2002 | To Minnesota Wild Cliff Ronning |
To Los Angeles Kings 4th-round pick in 2002 |
[11] |
October 31, 2002 | To Minnesota Wild 7th-round pick in 2003 |
To Montreal Canadiens Sylvain Blouin |
[12] |
February 20, 2003 | To Minnesota Wild Jay Henderson |
To New York Rangers Cory Larose |
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March 11, 2003 | To Minnesota Wild Johan Holmqvist |
To New York Rangers Lawrence Nycholat |
[14] |
Date | Player | Former team | Term | Via | Ref |
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July 3, 2002 | Bill Muckalt | Ottawa Senators | multi-year | Free agency | [15] |
July 9, 2002 | Tony Tuzzolino | Boston Bruins | Free agency | [16] | |
July 16, 2002 | Jean-Guy Trudel | Phoenix Coyotes | Free agency | [17] | |
August 5, 2002 | Dieter Kochan | Tampa Bay Lightning | Free agency | [18] | |
November 2, 2002 | Andrei Zyuzin | New Jersey Devils | Waivers | [19] | |
November 26, 2002 | Jeremy Stevenson | Houston Aeros (AHL) | Free agency | [20] |
Date | Player | New team | Via[lower-alpha 1] | Ref |
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N/A | Steve Aronson | London Knights (BISL) | Free agency (UFA) | [22] |
July 2, 2002 | Cam Stewart | Retirement (UFA) | [23] | |
July 12, 2002 | Mike Matteucci | New Jersey Devils | Free agency (VI) | [24] |
July 23, 2002 | Brett McLean | Chicago Blackhawks | Free agency (UFA) | [25] |
July 24, 2002 | Aaron Gavey | Toronto Maple Leafs | Free agency (UFA) | [26] |
August 13, 2002 | Shawn Carter | Augsburger Panther (DEL) | Free agency (VI) | [27] |
August 27, 2002 | Stacy Roest | Detroit Red Wings | Free agency (UFA) | [28] |
September 27, 2002 | Mike Crowley | Retirement | [29] | |
April 3, 2003 | Jean-Guy Trudel | HC Ambri-Piotta (NLA) | Free agency | [30] |
April 14, 2003 | Tony Virta | HPK (Liiga) | Free agency | [31] |
Date | Player | Term | Contract type | Ref |
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June 26, 2002 | Sylvain Blouin | multi-year | Re-signing | [32] |
June 27, 2002 | Travis Roche | multi-year | Re-signing | [33] |
July 8, 2002 | Mike Crowley | Re-signing | [34] | |
July 15, 2002 | Rickard Wallin | Entry-level | [35] | |
August 1, 2002 | Brad Brown | 1-year | Re-signing | [36] |
August 14, 2002 | Ladislav Benysek | 1-year | Re-signing | [37] |
Matt Johnson | 1-year | Re-signing | [37] | |
Cory Larose | Re-signing | [37] | ||
Richard Park | 1-year | Re-signing | [37] | |
August 19, 2002 | Antti Laaksonen | 1-year | Arbitration award | [38] |
September 27, 2002 | Pierre-Marc Bouchard | Entry-level | [39] | |
November 20, 2002 | Filip Kuba | multi-year | Extension | [40] |
January 6, 2003 | Chris Heid | multi-year | Entry-level | [41] |
March 11, 2003 | Dwayne Roloson | multi-year | Extension | [14] |
April 6, 2003 | Josh Harding | Entry-level | [42] |
Minnesota's draft picks at the 2002 NHL Entry Draft held at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Ontario.[43]
Round | # | Player | Nationality | College/Junior/Club team (League) |
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1 | 8 | Pierre-Marc Bouchard | Canada | Chicoutimi Saguenéens (QMJHL) |
2 | 38 | Josh Harding | Canada | Regina Pats (WHL) |
3 | 72 | Mike Erickson | United States | University of Minnesota (WCHA) |
3 | 73 | Barry Brust | Canada | Spokane Chiefs (WHL) |
5 | 155 | Armands Berzins | Latvia | Shawinigan Cataractes (QMJHL) |
6 | 175 | Matt Foy | Canada | Merrimack College (Hockey East) |
7 | 204 | Niklas Eckerblom | Sweden | Djurgårdens IF (Elitserien) |
8 | 237 | Christoph Brandner | Austria | Krefeld Pinguine (DEL) |
9 | 268 | Mikhail Tyulyapkin | Russia | Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod Jr. (Russia) |
9 | 269 | Mika Hannula | Sweden | Malmö Redhawks (Elitserien) |
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