Saku Koivu, Mikko’s only sibling who ranks third amongst all Finland-born players with 832 points in 1,124 games; Tony DaCosta, the Wild’s long-time equipment manager and one of Koivu’s best ...

TOM POWERS It’s Saku Koivu or bust. The Wild desperately need a quality center. The last one available via free agency is Saku Koivu. That’s it. There are no other options. Chuck Fletch… ...

Saku has served as Finland's captain since 1998, but a concussion forced him to withdraw from Olympic consideration, leaving only Mikko to represent the Koivu's.

Saku Koivu turns 32 on Thursday, a day after Mikko's Minnesota Wild were to play Saku's Montreal Canadiens at the Bell Centre. The brothers celebrated the.

When he got to Minnesota in 2005, Koivu, best known as Montreal Canadiens captain Saku Koivu's baby brother, moved into an apartment in downtown Minneapolis, then lived the condo life for years in ...

Mikko Koivu didn’t know what to expect. He had to figure the Wild had a few surprises up their sleeves to celebrate playing 1,000 games all in a Wild sweater .

The Montreal Canadiens visited the Minnesota Wild Thursday night. "This is my last game in Montreal!" – Patrick Roy, 1995 ...

DALLAS — In 1995, a Montreal Canadiens star named Mark Recchi was assigned to show the ropes to a hotshot 20-year-old prospect named Saku Koivu. That same year, Koivu’s little brother, a 12 ...

Mikko Koivu acknowledged the Xcel Energy Center crowd when he was honored for playing his 1,000th game with the Wild in 2019. (Carlos Gonzalez, ... Koivu and his brother Saku, ...

Minnesota Wild’s Mikko Koivu in the second period of an NHL hockey game against the Dallas Stars, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2019, in St. Paul, Minn. The game marks Koivu’s 1,000 NHL game, making him the ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) Minnesota Wild center Mikko Koivu decided his surgically repaired right ankle has not healed enough to allow him to play for Finland in the Olympics. Koivu, who had surgery ...

The Montreal Canadiens' Saku Koivu has played every game of his NHL career with the Canadiens, and even at 5'10" has proved to be a wonderful centre. Saku was born November 23, 1974, in Turku ...