Minnesota Wild Quarter-Century Second Team: Andrew Brunette

The NHL announced that Andrew Brunette was named to the Minnesota Wild's quarter-century second team. Here's a look back at his career in green.

ST. PAUL - With 2025 in full swing, the NHL is celebrating the best of the past 25 years by revealing Quarter-Century teams for each of the league's teams. The Minnesota Wild were last week. You can read about the first team below. 

We will now look at the second team and highlight each player. Today we focus on Andrew Brunette. 

Brunette played 16 years in the NHL with six different teams. He spent six years playing for the Wild on two different stints. He even coached for the Wild for a while before he continued his coaching career with the Florida Panthers and Nashville Predators. 

In his Wild playing career, Brunette recorded 119 goals and 321 points in 489 career games. He finished his NHL career with 268 goals, 465 assists, and 733 points in 1,110 games.

He is best remembered for his iconic goal in the playoffs. His game seven overtime winning goal to beat the Colorado Avalanche in the 2003 Stanley Cup playoffs in round one is one of the best goals in Wild history. 

In his six years with the Wild, Brunette scored 20 or more goals in three of them. He went on to coach for the Wild from 2012 to 2019. He replaced John Hynes as the Predators' head coach in 2023 and is still their coach.  

Stay tuned for the next part as we will review more of the Wild's second team for the Quarter-Century. 

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