Wild MVP?

[Hockey Guy]

Just courious who you guys feel is the MVP so far? It's a tough call because there have been so many guys stepping up. IMO, Harding would be my #1. He gives the team confidence, I think he is just simply better than Backstrom, and he makes Backstrom a better goalie. A close second would be Cullen, and third would be Clutterbuck. Thoughts?

[Bear55]

Yeo

[Big Tom]

Yeo

Cullen

Prosser

[cbrooks]

Mikko Koivu would be my choice. They have great goaltending from both Backstrom and Harding also.

[Bran32]

I gotta go with Cullen, after last year alot of peoplw wanted him gone! But Yeo changed the entire culture of this team and has to be the early front runner for coach of the year!

[OnAFly]

Mikko does do a lot that doesn't get noticed. He leads the team in points, is second in +/- and leads the forwards in TOI. So far, he's been good on both end of the ice.

BTW, guess who is second on the team for points. I'll give you a hint, it's Danny Heatley He does this while being just behind Koivu in +/- and is second in TOI for forwards, again behind Koivu.

I'll go with Koivu.

[solbes]

Cullen. I like his energy out there.

Koivu a couple of years back for sure. He's so strong, he should be dominating play out there night in and night out. Just not as consistent as I would like.

Yeo has been an awesome coach so far. Even with the change in team, he has to be a big factor out there.

[scsavre]

Goalies

Yeo

Cullen

Kiovu needs goals to mak my list. I'm a team of hard workers with no goals is not a team that wins. Kiouvu needs goals. In my opinion he has missed about 10 easy ones, so he is close.

This team still has a lot of work to do. So far we are getting those lucky bounces that we had never gotten before. We r gonna need skill to take over when that ends.

[Musky Buck]

With onafly, Mikko does so much that rarely gets mentioned or noticed, I realize his struggles with last year but he's not a main #1 line kind of guy really and always battling other teams top lines is tough, but it takes every player we got and Yeo seems to really have the pro game figured out pretty well. I'd hate to play against Mikko Koivu he's that thorn in your side every shift, strong on his skates, handles the puck well, all the intangibles, relentless, never dogs a shift. But, I hear ya on the goalies and Cullen etc. They're all MVP's so far.

[OnAFly]

Yeo seems like the Wild's dream coach right now. I'll hold off on my judgement so far of him as a coach since it's less than 1/4 through the season, but so far I like what I see. Richards had that deer in the headlights look on his face a lot. I haven't seen that in Yeo, yet.