Yesterday I was watching the listless Wild and the upstart St Louis Blues play in St. Louis on Fox Sports Net and It was amazing to watch former Fighting Sioux T.J. Oshie and former MSU-M Maverick David Backes totally dismantle the Minnesota Wild. At least the day wasn't a total loss T.J. Oshie had two assist on the day and David Backes had a pretty goal.
Looks like the Wild have pretty much bagged their season and are just going through the motions, no matter what the pundits say the Wild are going to miss the Stanley Cup playoffs and it's time to dismantle this team and start over. I hoping that Wild Owner(s) Craig Leipold Owner & Governor and Philip Falcone Minority Owner would please tell Doug Risebrough to clean out his desk and give him his walking papers, because he should be done, fired. Doug Risebrough should own this mess that he let this team in.
What the fans ought to do is boycott the last Wild home games because I wouldn't pay top dollar to watch this crappy uninspired team play and they suck, their effort yesterday was absolutely horrible. The St Louis Blues took them apart piece by piece, shift by shift.
Super Wild Blogger Mike Russo kind of really put the season in a nut shell. We also find out that one of their top forwards Andrew Brunette is hurt and probably playing on a partially torn ACL.
If the Wild goes belly-up here, you just have to wonder if he’s (Brunette)going to shut it down.
And let’s be honest: The Wild’s season is slowly dying.
You can couch it anyway you’d like – and yes, the Wild’s still only a point back from the playoffs – but really, is there any reason to believe the Wild’s suddenly going to discover how to reel off a winning streak?
Not at all, and coach Jacques Lemaire said after tonight’s game that in his mind, Marian Gaborik is not close to returning. We’ll see this week.
Again we can use funny numbers to blur the record, but the reality is, the Wild is facing must-wins every single night and has dropped nine of the past 11 games (2-5-4).
What a great gift the boy's (Oshie, Perron, Bergy, and Backes) gave me at the game last night. A build a bear Moose, and a sweet foam Blues Helmet! haha
ReplyDeleteOh, and they treated the 19,200 guests in attendance to a Free Meal, and a Free Blizzard from Dairy Queen!!
Gotta love the Blues, and there study climb into the playoffs without their highest paid Forward PKariya, highest paid D-man EBrewer, and highest draft pick #1 EJohnson (Mr. "Franchise" it makes me sick), and their goalie who last year was an All-Star...
Actually this Blues team has allowed us all to forget that they are leading the league in Man Games lost due to injury..
BrettB that is a great compare and contrast opportunity compare the Wild GM to the Blues GM and it isn't even close. Mike Russo talked about this when he was on with PA the other day on KFAN.
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