Half the league makes the playoffs, this team cannot win a game against the top teams in our conference. We are going now where fast as constructed. The record is smoke and mirrors and we will watch it play out as hr always has.
I've said for a while now that the Wild are pretty good, but not
1st-in-the-NHL good, so you're sort of preaching to the choir a bit. That said, I find it hard to be so gloomy about a team that has been winning the games they should, and has been close to splitting the games they should split.
If you just want to temper our outlandish expectations, I'm not sure whose posts you've been reading. Most of the people around here have been fairly level headed about this version of the team.