Heads will roll if Wild don't improve...

Personally, I don't think the Wild have much to bargain with, who are they going to trade? They have no prospects in Houston and the past GM ran the team so far into the ground that they are still suffering from it.

Minneapolis Star and Tribune ---- Change is coming for the Wild. If it doesn't come in the form of victories, it'll come in the form of changing faces, and soon.

The team hasn't been in the top eight in the Western Conference since Nov. 11 and has lost five of six -- four by lopsided scores.

The Wild is back in that dangerous territory of being trapped in the bottom of the conference with a logjam in front. As last season proved, it's a torturous task to leapfrog up the standings.

That's why Wild General Manager Chuck Fletcher says things must turn around now. If they don't, you can bet players will either be shipped out or, as much as it would pain Fletcher, coach Todd Richards could be fired.

Fletcher made clear Thursday, however, that players will be held accountable before Richards.

Trade talks are picking up, Fletcher said, but he's willing to give this group one final chance to prove itself.

I didn't think that the Minnesota Wild would be that good this year when I looked at their team roster in training camp because they really don't have a very talented line up and I think they are going to be hard pressed to make the playoffs and if they do qualify they are going to play a team like Detroit which they have no change of eliminating until they get more talented in the forwards lines.... I keep reading on line how Wild fans are already ready to have one of their own fired.