{"id":479896,"date":"2026-03-02T00:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T00:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/479896\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T00:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T00:26:13","slug":"x-from-xcel-energy-center-rooftop-sign-sells-for-21k-in-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/479896\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;X&#8221; from Xcel Energy Center rooftop sign sells for $21K in auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A big hockey fan now owns an iconic piece of the Minnesota Wild.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;X&#8221; from the old Xcel Energy Center sign went up for auction and sold for $21,200.<\/p>\n<p>The proceeds will benefit the Minnesota Wild Foundation, which supports youth hockey in the state.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The single letter is about 8 feet tall by about 8 feet wide.<\/p>\n<p>It does have a little wear and tear from 25 years sitting atop the building.<\/p>\n<p>Late last year, the Xcel Energy Center was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/minnesota\/news\/xcel-energy-center-renamed-grand-casino-arena-minnesota-wild\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">renamed to the Grand Casino Arena<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A big hockey fan now owns an iconic piece of the Minnesota Wild. The &#8220;X&#8221; from the old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5118],"tags":[5,161,38,5280,4,6077,162],"class_list":{"0":"post-479896","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-wild","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-minnesota","10":"tag-minnesota-wild","11":"tag-minnesotawild","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-st-paul","14":"tag-wild"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116156746008414131","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}