CBCca SportsHockey Headlines Scoreboard Standings Stats NHL Schedule Teams Players Hockey Night in Canada Fantasy Pool Olympics Football Headlines CFL Scoreboard CFL Standings CFL Stats CFL Teams NFL Scoreboard NFL Standings NFL Stats NFL Teams NFL Players Video Alpine Skiing Curling Figure Skating Basketball NBA Scoreboard Standings Basketball News Feed Baseball MLB Scoreboard Standings Baseball News Feed Soccer MLS Scoreboard MLS Standings International Stats Soccer News Feed Amateur Sports Golf Tennis Auto Racing NHL HockeyScoreboardStatsStandingsTeamsPlayersPlayer NewsInjuriesTransactionsHomeWildSenators PreviewNHL HeadlinesThrashers G Pavelec to return Saturday Girouxs SH PP goals get Flyers by Pens Oilers beat Hawks to snap 6game slide Auld leads Habs to fourth straight win Skinner Cole push Canes past Rangers Byfuglien lifts Atlanta by Sabres in OT Elias Brodeur help Devils end skid at 3 Flames give D Giordano 5year extension Blackhawks Hossa to miss next few weeks Seguin gets first home goal Bruins win By JEFF MEZYDLOSTATS Senior Writer(AP) It seems the only thing that could derail the surging Minnesota Wild would be to physically stop them from taking the ice The Wild hope a fire in a van containing their equipment wont do so as they try for a third straight victory Saturday night on the road against the Ottawa Senators This contest will be played as scheduled after a fire broke out in a Minnesota van Friday while the team practiced in Ottawa There was a fire in an equipment van in the parking lot at Scotiabank Place (Friday) afternoon No one was injured but some of the Minnesota Wilds hockey equipment was damaged the team said in a statement The team stated that equipment manager Brent Proulx and two assistants were scheduled to return to Minnesota via plane to retrieve new equipment that was expected to be flown back to Ottawa on Saturday morning The club also said goaltender Niklas Backstroms equipment was destroyed Ive never heard of anything like this in my life Wild winger Martin Havlat told the Ottawa Sun When I first heard about it I thought it was some kind of a joke The Wild (17143) hope everything gets sorted out so they can focus on continuing their most successful run of the season Minnesota improved to 1021 since losing four in a row with a 31 win at Montreal on Thursday Mikko Koivu scored his first goal in seven games and Backstrom made 30 saves as the Wild won for the third time in four games away from home Tied with Andrew Brunette for the team lead with 10 goals Koivu has three points in his last two games but one goal in three career games versus the Senators Backstrom hopes his new equipment will be as good to him as the stuff he had been using before the fire The Wild starter is 15103 with a 239 goalsagainst average this season and has allowed three goals on 98 shots while winning a careerhigh four in ...