Minnesota's Kevin Fiala, right, fends off Sean Walker during a matchup in Los Angeles last season. The Wild will open this year on the West Coast again, which means late faceoff times.. (Photo by Harry How/Getty Images)
Get ready for some late-night Minnesota Wild hockey viewing in the opening month of the NHL schedule.
Four of the team’s first seven games will start at 9 p.m. central standard time, or later as the Wild face west coast trips to California, Washington and British Columbia.
The times for the NHL schedule were released Friday afternoon.
Minnesota opens the schedule against Anaheim on October 15 and then travels to Los Angeles the next night.