BLOOMINGTON -- Matt Cullen walked out of the team's dressing room at Bloomington Ice Garden on Sunday morning and had immediate déjà vu.
A native of Virginia, Minnesota who grew up in Moorhead, Cullen used to come down to the Twin Cities all the time as a kid, participating in several youth tournaments in the very same arena the Wild held a practice at on Sunday.
"It's fun, especially for me being a Minnesotan, a place like this, you have a lot of youth hockey tournaments, a lot of memories here," Cullen said. "It's fun to come back here. It's fun to see all the kids out here having fun and getting to experience an NHL practice and being around it. I know every guy in [the dressing room] enjoyed it."
Wild's Minnesotans relive memories at Bloomington Ice Garden
Cullen, Reilly among those who spent plenty of time at venerable west Bloomington facility
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