The Minnesota Wild NHL hockey team is an expansion team that was established in the year 2000, seven years after the State of Hockey lost it's former NHL team, the Minnesota Northstars, who became the team now known as the Dallas Stars. Since the Minnesota Wild's inception, they have played at the Xcel Energy Center in beautiful downtown St. Paul, Minnesota.

The Minnesota Wild logo is the face of a bear incorporating traditions from the State of Hockey - the trees representing the great outdoors/northwoods, the mouth representing the Mighty Mississippi, and the eye representing the Northern Star reference which became the signature name of the previous Minnesota NHL team, the Northstars.