How Minnesota Wild Milestones is played

Every card in this deck carries a hidden value on the same scale — release years and dates — and the run is one long sorting problem. The first card is dealt face up. Each card after it goes into the gap where you think it belongs, and the value only shows once it lands. Get it wrong three times and the run ends with whatever you had placed.

This deck can also be shuffled together with any other deck measured in release years and dates — tick several on the deck tree to build one longer timeline out of them.

What's in the deck

18 of the 18 cards you could be dealt. The values stay hidden until you place them.

Awarded an expansion franchise The NHL grants the Twin Cities a team, ending a seven-year gap since the North Stars left
Team named the Wild A fan-submitted name is chosen over finalists like Freeze and Northern Lights
Inaugural season at Xcel Energy Center The club plays its first NHL games in a brand-new downtown St. Paul arena
Run to the Western Conference Final In only their third season, back-to-back 3-1 series comebacks carry them within four wins of the Cup Final
Marian Gaborik's five-goal game The young winger lights up the Rangers for five in a single night
First division title The club finally tops the Northwest Division standings
Mikko Koivu named first captain After years with no permanent captain, the Finnish center gets the 'C'
Traded Brent Burns to San Jose The blueliner is dealt west in a package that returns Charlie Coyle
Signed Parise and Suter Two identical thirteen-year deals reshape the roster on the same July day
Returned to the playoffs A lockout-shortened season ends a five-year postseason drought
First-round win over Colorado A Game 7 overtime goal finishes off the Avalanche
Drafted Kirill Kaprizov A future star is taken in the fifth round, years before he can leave Russia
Bruce Boudreau hired as coach The veteran bench boss takes over behind the bench
Franchise-record 106-point season A 49-win campaign sets a new club standard for points
Eric Staal's 42-goal season The veteran center posts a surprising career-high goal total
Bill Guerin named general manager The former NHL forward takes over hockey operations
Kirill Kaprizov wins the Calder The Russian winger is named the league's top rookie in his debut season
Retired Mikko Koivu's No. 9 The same season the club sets a franchise record with 113 points, its first captain's number goes to the rafters