2013/2014 Minnesota Wild News and Notes - New Division and New Expectations

[Sportsfan1]

Heatley on the top line? Ewwww.......

I'm not opposed to anything, including throwing Haula up there, or hopefully Zucker here soon.

 

[Sportsfan1]

Just so long as Parise-Granlund are together, I want to see that.

 

[NHL1674]

I'm not opposed to anything, including throwing Haula up there, or hopefully Zucker here soon.

Yeah, but dude. Friends don't let friends pencil in Heatley on the top line.

 

[Sportsfan1]

Until Coyle and Zucker are back it's not like there is an abundance of options people.

 

[Avder]

I'm not opposed to anything, including throwing Haula up there, or hopefully Zucker here soon.

......I guess. But ick.

Well I guess as long as were in throw it at the wall to see what sticks mode....sigh.

 

[mezcal]

Updated my avatar as well.

 

[Avder]

Updated my avatar as well.

I approve

 

[TaLoN]

Until Coyle and Zucker are back it's not like there is an abundance of options people.

Trade Zucker in a package for a d-man!

 

[NHL1674]

The fact that Brodin is tied for 1st in points on this team is crazy in a good way, yet alarming at the same freaking time.

 

[TaLoN]

Josh Harding... 7 games, 1 5 on 5 goal allowed.

'Nuff said!

 

[Avder]

He should be our consensus #1. If not, the dissenting person needs to be taken out back and rehabilitated in the face until he agrees.

I love making sealab references.

 

[NHL1674]

Josh Harding... 7 games, 1 5 on 5 goal allowed.

'Nuff said!

It's a damn shame we're wasting his efforts.

 

[Fel 96]

Seven games for Harding, 1 5-on-5 goal allowed

http://twitter.com/Russostrib/status/391761721011879938

 

[Finnsane]

Josh Harding... 7 games, 1 5 on 5 goal allowed.

'Nuff said!

 

[TaLoN]

What if Harding steals a spot on team Canada for the Olympics?

 

[Avder]

He deserves it. He is the only player on the ice that I have not had a single complaint about, even a minor one.

 

[TaLoN]

He deserves it. He is the only player on the ice that I have not had a single complaint about, even a minor one.

Brodin

 

[Avder]

Brodin

I had a minor complaint about him in an earlier game. I can't remember what it was now, something trivial I bet.

but yeah, Brodin is probably our best skater to this point, followed by Groondlund

 

[Casper]

6 points in 9 games as a dman? not too shabby.

 

[kitsumo]

Still if Harding is playing that well and the team is not winning there has to be something seriously ****ed up. Do something Yeo or gtfo.

 

[thestonedkoala]

Updated my avatar as well.

Fire Fletcher as well. I mean going off the logic that Minnesota fans bring up, Fletcher assembled this team. Fletcher hired the coaches. And Fletcher is putting the product on the ice. So, fire Fletcher...(btw, this is partly sarcasm based off the responses to the other sports in Minnesota)

 

[mezcal]

Fire Fletcher as well. I mean going off the logic that Minnesota fans bring up, Fletcher assembled this team. Fletcher hired the coaches. And Fletcher is putting the product on the ice. So, fire Fletcher...(btw, this is partly sarcasm based off the responses to the other sports in Minnesota)

Gather the torches, i'll grab the pitchforks. Fletchers going down.

 

[Avder]

Someone is if this can't score nonsense continues.

 

[mezcal]

Someone is if this can't score nonsense continues.

Hope so. It's getting pretty old, watching the same **** every damn game and hearing Yeo praise our team or say "Baby steps, we are experiencing growing pains."

 

[llamapalooza]

Fire Fletcher as well. I mean going off the logic that Minnesota fans bring up, Fletcher assembled this team. Fletcher hired the coaches. And Fletcher is putting the product on the ice. So, fire Fletcher...(btw, this is partly sarcasm based off the responses to the other sports in Minnesota)

Thing is, he is responsible for Yeo, and it's both logically consistent and correct that his job is shakier as a result of the product on the ice right now. He took the chance on Yeo, and he's putting his neck on the line for the guy by not firing him. The reason the mob isn't after him (...yet...) is that he's made a lot of good (or at least popular) moves, and so looking at his tenure holistically isn't nearly as much of an exercise in negativity.

Yeo, by comparison, has had the same struggles in three years with three radically different rosters, and has very limited success to show for himself. The team underperforms consistently. They control the puck the whole game but when it comes time to actually try and score they look completely baffled and lost. The team is getting minimal scoring for maximal effort. When one player goes through that, sure, he's "snakebit" or it's a cold streak or a mental thing or whatever. But when it's affecting an entire team over a period of multiple years? It's not a personnel issue and it's not a lack of talent or character.