{"id":519875,"date":"2026-03-24T08:08:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T08:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/519875\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T08:08:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T08:08:34","slug":"wild-gm-bill-guerin-devastated-by-deaths-of-beloved-team-reporter-and-her-three-kids-in-house-fire-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/519875\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild GM Bill Guerin \u2018devastated\u2019 by deaths of beloved team reporter and her three kids in house fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wild general manager Bill Guerin spent part of Monday paying homage to Jessi Pierce, the longtime and beloved hockey writer who died on Saturday in a house fire<\/a> that also took the lives of her three young children.<\/p>\n

Guerin joined the hockey community in mourning the loss, describing Pierce as \u201ca ray of sunshine\u201d while speaking with reporters.<\/p>\n

\"Jessi<\/p>\n

Jessi Pierce and her three children were killed in a house fire on Sunday. Jessi Pierce\/X<\/p>\n

\u201cWords just can\u2019t express how devastated we all are,\u201d he said. \u201cBut as I mentioned to some of you the other night, it doesn\u2019t matter if you\u2019re in the media, if you\u2019re a player, if you\u2019re in management, a coach, we are all in the sports world and the hockey world and we\u2019re all in this together.<\/p>\n

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\u201cJessi was always happy, always in a good mood, always a pleasure to deal with for me, and we\u2019ll miss her. The great thing about our community is it doesn\u2019t matter what part of it you\u2019re in \u2013 media, player, coach, manager \u2013 we\u2019re all in this together and we support each other. I just want you guys [the media] to know that we\u2019re here for you and anything that we can possibly do for you guys to help through the tough times, we\u2019re here for you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pierce\u2019s death has had a profound impact on the hockey community, as a number of people across the sport paid tribute to the hockey writer<\/a> on social media on Sunday, but the biggest impact was felt in Minnesota, where she covered the Wild for 10 seasons for NHL.com.<\/p>\n

Wild forward Marcus Foligno echoed Guerin\u2019s feelings, telling reporters on Monday that the entire team was feeling \u201cdevastated\u201d and that the players will \u201cdefinitely miss her around the rink for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pierce, whose work had also been featured by USA Hockey, the Minnesota Hockey Journal, Massachusetts Hockey, The Athletic and the B1G Ice Hockey blog, had also been known to bring her kids to the rink at times when she\u2019d be covering games.<\/p>\n

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In a piece in The Athletic, <\/a>fellow hockey scribe Michael Russo wrote that after Pierce had her first son, Hudson, she would often bring him to practice as she balanced work and being a mom.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne player in particular gravitated toward him: Mikael Granlund,\u201d Russo wrote. \u201cWhether he was on a hot streak or a slump, the second Jessi carried Hudson into the room, Granlund\u2019s eyes lit up. He\u2019d sprint to Jessi just to hold him as Hudson looked at the Finnish hockey star with wide eyes and a smile.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wild captain Jared Spurgeon noted Pierce\u2019s kids\u2019 presence around the team when he spoke about her passing on Monday.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf you ever met her, you just feel the energy around her,\u201d he said. \u201cEvery time she was in here, she had a smile on her face, whether it\u2019s talking about the game at hand or just youth sports.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember when she would bring the kids into the dressing room and do an interview holding [her son]. It\u2019s very hard news to take.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Minnesota<\/p>\n

Minnesota Wild general manager Bill Guerin talks to the media prior to an NHL hockey game between the Wild and the Ottawa Senators, Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025. AP<\/p>\n

Hudson, now 8, Cayden, 6, and Avery, 4, all died in the fire at the family\u2019s White Bear Lake home.<\/p>\n

Mike Hinrichs, Pierce\u2019s husband, had been out of town on a work trip, The Athletic reported.<\/p>\n

Neighbors called 911 around 5:26 a.m. to report a fire coming from the roof of a single-family home and said that there were likely people inside the house.<\/p>\n

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The house was fully engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived on the scene.<\/p>\n

The Minnesota State Fire Marshal\u2019s office is investigating the source of the fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wild general manager Bill Guerin spent part of Monday paying homage to Jessi Pierce, the longtime and beloved…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5118],"tags":[3201,5,7676,6301,17816,1339,34087,1336,1271,161,38,5280,4,25,1491,162],"class_list":["post-519875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-minnesota-wild","tag-bill-guerin","tag-hockey","tag-hockey-community","tag-hockey-writer","tag-house-fire","tag-jared-spurgeon","tag-jessi-pierce","tag-marcus-foligno","tag-mikael-granlund","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-wild","tag-minnesotawild","tag-nhl","tag-ottawa-senators","tag-the-wild","tag-wild"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116283135385111295","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519875","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=519875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}