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West Central · 2026–27 season

The story so far

Wild fans spent the season fretting over whether Quinn Hughes will sign, while Jesper Wallstedt bailed out a roster gutted by injuries. The season's longest road trip turned restless nerves giddy, leaving fans at 10-3-3 and celebrating a division and conference lead.

From Reddit fan threads · through Oct 26–Nov 1 · 10-3-3

Season misery
31Content
Worst week
46Oct 19–25
Best week
6Sep 28–Oct 4
Sep 28–Oct 4: misery 6 (Euphoric) · 2-0Oct 5–11: misery 42 (Content) · 1-2Oct 12–18: misery 27 (Euphoric) · 3-1Oct 19–25: misery 46 (Meh) · 2-2Oct 26–Nov 1: misery 36 (Content) · 2-1Nov 2–8: misery 29 (Euphoric) · 1-09/2810/510/1210/1910/2611/2
Weekly misery, Monday to Sunday. Above the line is miserable; below is happy.

Storylines

what fans talked about, week by week
Season-long
  • Anxiety over the unsigned Hughes never left, swinging from irritation at the waiting game to split blame in Edmonton and Calgary, then celebration of his 500 points mixed with fear he walks.

    “Devils fans: “Quinn is definitely coming now, we have a really good goalie now” lol. That’s cute. We have Wallstedt.”

    ▲ 161Oct 26–Nov 1

Emerging
Came and went

angry / anxioushappy / hopefulsplitbigger dot = louder

  1. 29Nov 2–8● so far1-0›
  2. 36Oct 26–Nov 12-1›
  3. 46Oct 19–252-2›
  4. 27Oct 12–183-1›
  5. 42Oct 5–111-2›
  6. 6Sep 28–Oct 42-0›