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From Friday, April 20, through Sunday, April 22, in Casper the Gillette Wild Junior Hockey Tier III held a development/Tryout Camp for players from around the region and Head Coach Tom Winkler was very impressed with the turnout as close to 40 players showed up for a chance to improve their game and ultimately try to land a spot with the Wild for the coming season.

After losing their best of seven series 4 games to 2 to Missoula on Friday night the Gillette Wild had to take on Billings in a best of three series to qualify for the 2012 National Tournament in Rochester, MN. In game 1 on Saturday in Billings the Wild fell 3-1 as Stanislav Izvekov scored Gillette's first goal since game five against Missoula ending a scoring drought of 115 minutes and 19 seconds.

For the first time since December 17, 2011 and just the third time all season long the Gillette Wild Junior Hockey Tier III team was shutout. The Wild lost their best of seven playoff series 4 games to 2 with Missoula's 5-0 win at Glacier Ice Arena Friday night as the Maulers advanced to the America West Hockey League championship series against Helena who defeated Billings 4 games to 1 in the first round.

For the second straight day, the Gillette Wild had to come from behind to take down Missoula. On Saturday the Wild beat the Maulers 5-3 and on Sunday at Spirit Hall Ice Arena they forced a game six on the road with a 4-2 win after trailing 1-0 early in the first period.

The Gillette Wild could have picked up their first playoff win in franchise history in the first three games with Missoula in their best of seven playoff series, but the puck didn't go their way until game four. The Wild finally got over the hump against the Maulers as they beat them for the first time this season 5-3 on Saturday at Spirit Hall Ice Arena to force a game 5.

The games have been close through the first three games of the Gillette Wild's best of seven first round playoff series with Missoula, but the outcomes have all been the same as Gillette fell to the Maulers 5-3 last night at Spirit Hall to fall into a 3-0 hole.

The Gillette Wild Junior Hockey Tier III team let the franchise’s first win in the playoffs slip away last night as they fell 5-4 in OT to the Maulers in Missoula.

The Gillette Wild Junior Hockey Tier III team opened up their best of 7 playoff series Tuesday night in Missoula and they fell to the Maulers 4-2.

The Gillette Wild Junior Hockey tier III team closed out the regular season in fine form over the weekend as they swept through their two games against Billings to win the season series against the Bulls. “Our goal was to generate some momentum and some confidence going into the postseason,” said Wild Head Coach Tom Winkler, and they did just that.

The Gillette Wild Junior Hockey Tier III team's dominance against Great Falls continued this weekend as they picked up two more wins over the Americans by a combined score of 17-5. The Wild closed out their season series with Great Falls winning all ten match-ups by a combined score of 78-27. With their fourth win in a row the Wild pulled their season record back to .500 at 21-21-2.

The Gillette Wild Junior Hockey Tier III team had visions of grandeur when they looked at their three games this past weekend knowing they could get that much closer to a playoff spot with just one win.  However, they were unable to do just that as they dropped all three of their games this weekend.

In what could be called their best weekend in the franchises young history, the Gillette Wild Junior Hockey Tier III team swept though their weekend road games as they opened up the trip with a very a stunning 4-3 win over Helena Friday night and then destroyed Great Falls Saturday night 11-3 to win their third straight game.

This past week the Gillette Wild Junior Hockey Tier III team once gain ended up splitting their games as they took down Bozeman 3-2 and fell to Helena 2-3. With the split the Wild (14-17) still have a fairly comfortable hold on the fourth position in the America West Hockey League (AWHL) with 28 points, which puts them 10 points in front of Bozeman (9-24) and 17 points behind third place Billings (22-8).

The Gillette Wild Junior Hockey Tier III team spotted Helena a three goal lead Friday night at Spirit Hall and couldn’t climb all the way back as they fell 4-2 in their first of two meetings with the Bighorns this weekend.