1. ISSUE 12 • VOLUME 3 • DECEMBER 2010
Minnesota Wild Practice Jersey Auction:
RBC Exclusive Player Meet and Greet
The Minnesota Wild, RBC Wealth Management and Minnesota Hockey have all teamed up to
offer fans the opportunity to own a piece of the Year Ten Team. Presented by RBC Wealth
Management, Wild team practice jerseys are currently being auctioned off with all proceeds
going directly to Minnesota Hockey to benefit the Gear Up Minnesota program. Gear Up
Minnesota provides associations throughout the state with starter hockey equipment. Close to
$125,000 in equipment has been donated to associations across Minnesota in the
ten years of the program’s existence.
Winners will be invited to a February closed to the public Wild practice to meet the
player whose jersey they won! To make a bid on your favorite player, click here.
Jersey color and player subject to change.
Movember Results
We would like to thank everyone who helped out this month on the Movember
campaign. Participation at the November 26th game was such a success, it broke
the Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of moustached men, 1,131
in total! Even during the game, men were seen shaving their beards and goatees
to qualify their moustache for the monumental moment after the Wild victory
over the Nashville Predators.
Sun Country Airlines gave away special Movember t-shirts to the first 1,500 fans
in attendance to support the cause. Because of the overwhelming numbers of
men that turned out for the cause, only a handful were lucky enough to receive
one for the photo pictured
below. Other fans were able to
register for free travel vouchers
courtesy of Sun Country Airlines.
A special thanks to Sun Country
Airlines for all of their efforts in
making Movember a huge
success.
To date the Minnesota Wild and
the Minnesota Wild Mo Bros
Team, led by Wild defenseman,
Nick Schultz has raised over
$29,000 for Movember (donated
to the Prostate Cancer Foundation and LIVESTRONG). Our campaign even generated a plethora of local and national media
attention thanks to the help of KARE 11 news. Kudos to everyone that played a part in Movember 2010. Looking forward to next
year!!

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Minnesota Wild Fans can
participate in the No Name Original
Xcel Energy Center Receives
Kid of the Year Contest by sending 9th Nomination -
in a short essay about why their Arena of the Year
“petite cut,” is an original! Essays
Pollstar, the leading concert industry publication,
must be 100 words or less to
announced that Xcel Energy Center has been nominated
qualify.
for “Arena of the Year” as part of its 22nd Annual Concert
Industry Award. In the ten years that Xcel Energy Center
100 entries will be chosen to receive two tickets to a Wild
has been open, it has been nominated 9 times.
game. Six finalists will be rewarded tickets to the March 20, 2011
Wild game where they will attend a finalist ceremony. Five of the
Xcel Energy Center was nominated by a committee of
finalists will receive a $1,000 donation to
several hundred randomly selected concert industry
their school.
executives. The committee also nominated six other
venues that include: Air Canada Centre (Toronto), BOK
The grand prize winner will be named the
Center (Tulsa), HP Pavilion (San Jose), Madison Square
“Original Kid of the Year” and will receive
Garden (NYC), Bridgestone Arena (Nashville), and Staples
a Minnesota Wild party at Xcel Energy
Center (LA). Madison Square Garden won the award last
Center for 100 family and friends, a year’s
year and only three arenas have won the award since its
worth of No Name products and a $3,000
inception in 1992 – Madison Square Garden (15 times),
donation to their school. The party at the
Staples Center (2 times) and Palace of Auburn Hills
Xcel Energy Center will also include an
(1 time).
appearance by a Wild player!
The concert industry has been very successful for Xcel
Don’t let your “Original Kid” go
Energy Center. In 2010, Bon Jovi and Lady Gaga
unrecognized! You can submit your essay
performed two sold out concerts each. Other performers
and find more information about the No Name program here.
include Dave Matthews Band, Taylor Swift, Sting, Brad
Paisley and Roger Waters. There have been over 1,500
sporting events, concerts, family shows and special events
held in the building since it opened in September 2000.
The winner of the “Arena of the Year” will be announced
at the Pollstar Concert Industry Awards show on February
5, 2011 in Los Angeles. Best of luck to the home of
Minnesota Wild Hockey!!