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Wild committed to cleaning up recent spate of costly penalties

Katherine Langford
Editor-in-Chief · Friday, October 23, 2026 at 10:45 PM · 1 min read
Wild committed to cleaning up recent spate of costly penalties — Grand Forks Herald, Grand Prairie Sports news
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After playing for the Flames for five years and serving as Calgary s alternate captain for two of them, Blake Coleman got a nice ovation — even though he plays for the Minnesota Wild now — when he was introduced to the Saddledome audience early in Thursday night s game. He got an even bigger ovation when he was whistled for tripping midway through the first period and headed to the penalty box. The Flames scored on the power play, and again a few minutes later when Zach Bogosian was in a referee-mandated timeout. Those two-man advantages were all the Flames needed to win 2-1 as the Wild were undone by penalties in Alberta for the second time this week. Coleman made no excuses for what s troubling Minnesota on its longest road trip of the season. We ve just gotta stay out of the box, first of all, he said to reporters in the visiting locker room in Calgary. I take an O-zone penalty that cost us one, and then they spread us out on the second one. We made an adjustm

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