Minnesota Wild Equipment Van Catches Fire in ScotiaBank Place Parking Lot

per TSN.ca

The equipment van for the Minnesota Wild caught on fire this afternoon in the parking lot of Scotiabank Place in Ottawa prior to the Wild’s game against the Senators on Saturday.

The fire began at approximately 2:30pm eastern as the van was backing into Scotiabank place. Firefighters remained on the scene for about 40 minutes. Police say that there were no injuries however a significant amount of the equipment inside was destroyed. Police are still investigating the cause of the blaze.

According to the Twitter feed of the Minnesota Wild (twitter/mnwild) the team is taking inventory to determine the extent of the damage. According to a report by the CANADIAN PRESS all of goaltender Nicklas Backstrom’s equipment was destroyed. It appears as though at least some of the Wild players are now left without any skates, sticks or equipment and will need to purchase completely new equipment before tomorrow’s game.

The Wild are now in touch with the National Hockey League to determine what options they may have.

More to follow…

The photo’s below have come from the twitter account known as: @boomer960