The Wild will have a different look behind the bench next season after firing longtime assistant and former player Darby Hendrickson. An original member of the Wild who scored the team's first ...

Beckett Hendrickson — whose father, Darby, is a former Gophers player, U.S. Olympian and longtime Wild player and assistant coach now with the Nashville Predators — has been a fixture in the ...

Assistant Darby Hendrickson, left, and new Wild head coach John Hynes talked on the bench during the team’s victory over St. Louis. (Carlos Gonzalez, Star Tribune/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...

Hendrickson, 51, spent the past 14 seasons as assistant coach for the Minnesota Wild. He and current Predators coach Andrew Brunette were assistant coaches for the Wild between 2014-16, and the ...

Hendrickson is the Wild’s eye in the sky, so while he kept tabs on the Minnetonka score during the Wild’s game — the Skippers had to rally from a 2-0 deficit — he was able to stream the ...

Drafted in the fourth round by the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1990, Hendrickson played 518 NHL games, finishing with 65 goals and 64 assists. He retired after the 2006-07 season and joined Minnesota's ...

Only a few Wild players lingered near the end of Monday's morning skate, which gave Darby Hendrickson time to do his thing. And Darby doing his thing meant a longer wait than anticipated for the ...

Growing up as a kid in Minnesota and going on to play pro hockey for the pro team in Minnesota helps a guy like Darby Hendrickson evolve into be a sort of folk hero. Something else that helps that ...

Like Darby, who was picked by the Leafs in 1990, Beckett got drafted by an Original Six team, the Bruins taking him in the fourth round at No. 124. Beckett turned to his father, saying “thank ...

Hendrickson became an assistant coach for the Wild in 2011 and served on the staffs of five head coaches, the last being John Hynes, who replaced Dean Evason on Nov. 28.

As time progressed, Wild assistant coach Darby Hendrickson sat alongside his son in the stands and tried to provide some words of wisdom. Finally, late in the fourth round, with the Boston Bruins ...

Minnesota Wild assistant coach Darby Hendrickson, left, and head coach Dean Evason talk in the second period of an NHL hockey game against the Detroit Red Wings Thursday, March 10, 2022, in Detroit.