NAHL Minnesota Wilderness

Wilderness Prepare for Season's Final Brown Bear Hunt

Published on February 19, 2025 under North American Hockey League (NAHL)
Minnesota Wilderness News Release


The Minnesota Wilderness and Kenai River Brown Bears will complete their 2024-25 regular season series this weekend with two games in Cloquet. The series comes at a pivotal moment for both squads as they are deadlocked in sixth place in the NAHL's Midwest Division with 42 points and both teams hope to begin a late season surge to qualify for the Robertson Cup playoffs.

This will mark the middle weekend of a 6-game home stand for Minnesota. Last week, the Wilderness split a 2-game series vs. the Anchorage Wolverines. Minnesota won Friday, 6-2, before dropping Saturday's game, 6-4.

The Brown Bears managed just one point in its 2-game set at the Janesville Jets. Janesville won in a shootout Friday, 3-2 before completing a 4-2 regulation victory Saturday.

Minnesota (19-20-4) and Kenai River (18-21-3) have met six times this season, with the Wilderness winning five. Their last two games were in Soldotna, AK, where the Brown Bears posted a 3-2 win on Jan. 31, before the Wilderness countered to win in overtime Saturday, also by a 3-2 score.

Both games this weekend (Feb. 21-22) are scheduled for a 7:15 p.m. puck drop at Northwoods Credit Union Arena.

Recent and upcoming Wilderness birthdays:

Logan Nagle (20) Feb. 18

Ville Schoenborg (18) Feb 20

Owen Smith (19) Feb. 24

Media: NAHLTV.com

Midwest Division standings:

Place Team Games Played Points This weekend's opponent

1 Wisconsin 43 63 2 games vs. Springfield

2 Anchorage 42 58 2 games @ Chippewa

2 Fairbanks 42 58 2 games @ Janesville

4 Chippewa 44 48 2 games vs. Anchorage

5 Springfield 42 44 2 games @ Wisconsin

6 Wilderness 43 42 2 games vs. Kenai River

6 Kenai River 45 42 2 games @ Wilderness

8 Janesville 43 30 2 games vs. Fairbanks

Tale of the Tape:

Team GF GA PP PK

Kenai River 117 150 17 for 167 (10.2%) 41 for 205 (80%)

Wilderness 152 156 41 for 200 (20.5%) 26 for 160 (83.8%)

Check out the Minnesota Wilderness Statistics

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