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The Minnesota Wild lost their final 2026 preseason game on Friday against the Dallas Stars, a 2-1 exhibition contest that featured about 5x the fights as it did goals. They will play their first 2026-27 regular-season game<\/a> on Thursday (Oct. 1) in Nashville.<\/p>\n But the best part of the night probably happened in the booth early in the game. That was when Bill Guerin was interviewed by the TNT broadcasting crew, but more on that momentarily.<\/p>\n First, let\u2019s rewind to earlier in the day, when another former NHLer \u2014 Paul Bissonnette, now one of hockey\u2019s most popular podcasters \u2014 was itching to talk about the MN Wild on the latest episode of Spittin\u2019 Chiclets<\/a>.<\/p>\n Biz does not believe in the 2026-27 Minnesota Wild<\/p>\n And it wasn\u2019t for the reasons you would hope, as a Wild fan. Quite the opposite, in fact. In what he billed as his \u201chot take of the century,\u201d Biz proclaimed that Minnesota will miss the 2026-27 NHL playoffs.<\/p>\n His reasoning won\u2019t surprise you, if you have been following along. Essentially, Biz believes the MN Wild are light up the middle and on the verge of losing Quinn Hughes<\/a>, whom they acquired from Vancouver in December 2025<\/a> for Marco Rossi, Zeev Buium, Liam Ohgren and a first-round pick.<\/p>\n Grab your throwing tomatoes Minnesotans. Biz has the Wild OUT of the playoffs. pic.twitter.com\/W4kXR3Y3DN<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Spittin\u2019 Chiclets (@spittinchiclets) September 25, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n Biz: \u201cYou want my hot take of the century? \u2026 I think the Wild are gonna miss the playoffs.\u201d<\/p>\n Ryan Whitney: \u201cYou guys are haters, bro\u2026 How are they missing the playoffs?\u201d<\/p>\n Biz: \u201cBecause I think that they\u2019re gonna get off to a little bit of a tough start. And I think that the Quinn Hughes noise is gonna get loud. What are they gonna do, dude? They have Eriksson Ek at center ice? Who the f*** are their other centermen? Hartman might play center. I just think it\u2019s a strong division. It\u2019s a strong conference. I think that they\u2019re riding the high of last year, and now they got this daunting storyline coming in that Quinn Hughes wants nothing to do with them. He\u2019s a f***ing Quinn-chenko.\u201d<\/p>\n Whitney: \u201cThey got Boldy, Kaprizov\u2019s a superstar\u2026 Dude, you\u2019re nuts if you think this team\u2019s missing playoffs\u2026 They got maybe the best top four in the league in Quinn Hughes, Faber, Brodin and Spurgeon. I love their goalie. They got the Wall of St. Paul\u2026 You guys are gonna look like idiots when they\u2019re 10-3 out of the gate, and then the city\u2019s rocking and Quinn Hughes signs an extension. You guys are idiots.\u201d<\/p>\n Biz: \u201cThen they should be kissing our ass for reversing the curse. I mean, yeah, it\u2019s a nice top four, but 25% of it is gonna be gone halfway through the year.\u201d<\/p>\n Spittin\u2019 Chiclets Podcast<\/a><\/p>\n Related: Report: Dylan Larkin Trade List Grows Well Beyond MN Wild<\/a><\/p>\n In 2026, word travels around the world pretty quickly\u2026 or so I\u2019ve been told. Thus, it was not surprising that Biz\u2019s bold prediction made its way to Minnesota Wild president of hockey operations Bill Guerin<\/a> by the time he got into the TNT broadcast booth on Friday evening during the Wild vs Stars preseason game.<\/p>\n Bill Guerin fires back at Biz<\/p>\n At the end of the interview, longtime NHL announcer John Forslund decided to ask Guerin if he had seen the Spittin\u2019 Chiclets clip. If so, he gave Billy the opportunity to respond on National TV, which he took advantage of.<\/p>\n Of course Guerin had seen the clip. He and Biz are buddies, so Billy was definitely going to take the spotlight to fire shots across the bow at Bissonnette, noting that \u201cusually it takes someone that\u2019s been in the playoffs to comment on the playoffs.\u201d<\/p>\n Bill Guerin chirped @BizNasty2point0<\/a> after he predicted the Wild to MISS the playoffs:<\/p>\n \u201cUsually it takes someone that\u2019s been in the playoffs to comment on playoffs\u201d \ud83e\udd23<\/p>\n Let the record reflect Biz HAS appeared in 4 playoff games for a total ice time of 12:07 tho \ud83d\udc46 pic.twitter.com\/v0i30DfmXO<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 NHLonTNT (@NHL_On_TNT) September 26, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n Forslund: \u201cI\u2019m sure you\u2019re aware of this. [Paul Bissonnette] made a proclamation. Do you want to say anything about this?\u201d<\/p>\n Guerin: \u201cIs that the guy that does all the goofy stuff?\u2026 I\u2019ve heard of him. He wears a shirt unbuttoned to here?\u201d (points at his shirt buttons)<\/p>\n Forslund: \u201cUsually.\u201d<\/p>\n Guerin: \u201cUsually it takes somebody that\u2019s been in the playoffs to comment on playoffs. Yeah. I guess he could say what he wants for his clicks and everything like that, but we got 84 games to prove him wrong. Coming for you, Biz.\u201d<\/p>\n NHL on TNT<\/a><\/p>\n Related: Quinn Hughes Sounds Ready to Sign with MN Wild<\/a><\/p>\n A quick peek at Biz\u2019s NHL career will tell you that he had more than a cup of coffee in the best hockey league in the world, playing in<\/a> 202 regular season games where he scored a total of 7 goals and posted 22 points.<\/p>\n As far as his postseason contributions\u2026 well, Billy was mostly right on that. Biz reached the NHL playoffs twice, both times with Phoenix, appearing in four postseason games. He averaged just over three minutes of ice time, with zero points and 15 penalty minutes.<\/p>\n Guerin, on the other hand, played in 1,263 regular-season games<\/a> during his career, scoring 429 goals and totaling 856 points. Billy also played in 140 playoff games spread across 15 different postseason runs, scoring 39 goals and totaling 74 points and winning two Stanley Cups (1995 with New Jersey, 2009 with Pittsburgh).<\/p>\n Biz, for his part, took the chirp in stride on X, while insisting he did, in fact, play in the playoffs.<\/p>\n You son of a bitch Billy \ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23. I played in NHL playoffs though, that\u2019s false information from Billy G. Someone has to have the shift I played somewhere. https:\/\/t.co\/Cx3uJPRaG8<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Paul Bissonnette (@BizNasty2point0) September 26, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n And hey, at least Ryan Whitney had Guerin\u2019s back. The Wild get their first crack at proving Biz wrong Thursday in Nashville.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMentioned in this article:Bill Guerin<\/a> Paul Bissonnette<\/a><\/p>\n More About:Minnesota Wild<\/a><\/p>\n Add MinnesotaSportsFan as a preferred source on Google. \t\t\t![\"Google](\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1781239338_32_google_preferred_source_badge.png\"){kind=icon}
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