WILD HOCKEY!

[YiGGiN4SLoBS]

Anyone else wishing the season was over already?

As the great frenchy canuck Jaque Lemaire would say- "theres no doubt"

Might as well be over, i dont think this current wild bunch could beat the Michigan Tech Huskies much less an NHL team

[OnAFly]

Here's a shot of the standings right now. We could easily jump NYI and CAR for the 4th overall pick. We would have to go on quite the losing streak and the bottom three would have to nearly win out for us to break into the top 3 pick.

Place Team GP W L OT PTS

21 Buffalo 67 31 28 8 70

22 Tampa Bay 66 31 29 6 68

23 Anaheim 67 29 28 10 68

24 Toronto 67 30 30 7 67

25 Minnesota 67 28 29 10 66

26 NY Islanders 66 28 29 9 65

27 Carolina 67 25 27 15 65

28 Montreal 67 25 32 10 60

29 Edmonton 66 26 34 6 58

30 Columbus 66 21 38 7 49

[YiGGiN4SLoBS]

Lets go for the biggest collapse in hockey history! First in the NHL in december to dead last by the end of the year! if we're gonna suck, lets really suck!

Oh goodee, wild playing tonight! anybody gonna watch?

[OnAFly]

I'll be watching. I watched the good in December, I watched the bad in January, and I'm watching the ugly in March...and it's be UGLY!

[10,000 Casts]

Harding just injured himself somehow going into the butterfly... What a joke, I'll bet he is out for the season

[OnAFly]

They had better not go on some winning streak right now. That's the last thing they need. Just keep losing, but make it close and have a few feel good wins in there to keep the team from falling apart. Get that #4 in June. That would be really nice.

[Bear55]

Perfect game for the Wild, we lose and Matt Hackettt played very well stopping 24 of 25 shots. Draft can't get here soon enough.

[schmitty3]

Perfect game for the Wild, we lose and Matt Hackettt played very well stopping 24 of 25 shots. Draft can't get here soon enough.

LOL. I was gonna say the same thing. Killed two birds with one stone. Hackett played great and we still lost!

[OnAFly]

I was pretty happy about the whole thing, though, I wish we could have scored one and lost it in the last half of the third, just to make it exciting (hoping they don't score to tie it up ).

We have a realistic shot at the #3 pick. If we keep up this pace, we could be in good shape. The next years could be awesome. I heard we have 5 of the top 40 prospects in the world.

[YiGGiN4SLoBS]

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The next years could be awesome.

You know what? They better be... Because the last oh, 8 years or so have been the opposite of that and Im not gonna live forever

[OnAFly]

Yeah, the last 4 years have been painful, but at least this way we are stocking the shelves with quality players.

[OnAFly]

Since Montreal ans NYI went to OT, we are now #3 in draft position, which means we have a legitimate shot at drafting #1 overall. Having a guy like Yakupov sure would be nice.

[Bear55]

Wild blank Vancouver 2-0. Must have been a great game by Harding, easy now boys there is nothing wrong with an OT or shootout loss if you need a moral victory. Most of the fans realize that dispite our early season run we just didn't have the depth to win this year and this draft could add some key peices to our future.

[scsavre]

In typical MN fashion im sure they will start winning again and get to about the 7th pick or so.

Honestly, I would love the number 1 pick, but come on. They cant loose on purpose.

Side note, what do you guys think of Heatley, I honestly am amazed at the effort he is still giving. The guy plays hard in both ends when his job is to score goals, he is gonna get 25 goals on a terrible team. I also heard he is about the hardest working guy in practice. I never would have guessed it, I thought he would be the first guy to give up.

[archerystud]

Totally agree on both points.

[Bear55]

I have been very happy with Heatley, he has done a great job with not much healthy talent around him. I think we were all hoping for 30+ goals but with season we have had its hard to knock what he has done. The whole team needs a fresh start next year, hopefully we can land a big fish or two this off season.

[YiGGiN4SLoBS]

In a MUST lose game, we win! Typical wild... At least it was over the hated Canucks.. Ha ha vancouver! I love how they are scared to play Luongo at the Ex, its hilarious!

[Bear55]

Don't worry Yig, we have been tanking pretty hard. We can't expect them to lose every game.

[OnAFly]

If they lose last night, we are at the #3 pick. I that's about as high as we can realistically draft this year. I'd be cool with losing out from here on.

Just checked. 7 of our last ten games are against playoff teams.

[Musky Buck]

Were we really in 1st place this year ? Welcome back Ginger I mean Marian Gaborik to the X in a night or two. John Scott as well. Are we finding it wasn't all on Todd Richards ? We have 0 identity anymore. Well there's always next year. or the the year after that.

[10,000 Casts]

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Just checked. 7 of our last ten games are against playoff teams.

hahahaha, I love it.

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John Scott as well.

I hope Kassian is in the line up to welcome him back but then again, I like Scott and was sad he left, I suppose he will be scratched tho. It would have been nice to have scott back on D this year, he would have gotten alot of playing time and would have kept other teams a little more honest when they were running Spurgeon etc..

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Are we finding it wasn't all on Todd Richards

agreed, but when you have a coach like Yeo, you need to lock him up for a while and give it a chance imo

[archerystud]

In 4th right now!!!

Go Montreal!!! Go Edmonton!!!!

[Bear55]

No way can you blame everythign on Richards, I think we probably pulled the plug on him a little early but from the sounds of things it wasn't going well. We certainly need to give Yeo a couple more years and see what happens.

[Musky Buck]

Sorry guys about the misleading T Richards comment, no I don't want him back I just know the way our state seems to operate when it comes to coaches and we've had some dandy scenarios, yes give Yeo some time to grow, agreed, here you go, Les Steckel, Denny Green, Mike Tice, Sydney Lowe I think lol, Tim Brewster, tubby and kill, etc. we're constantly thinking this magical coach will will us into an instant winner, anyway, no doubt we lack a bunch of hockey talent on the wild roster. I'm just thankful the NHL is here, but being old school I'll always miss the stars and and that hotel where I got tons of opposing teams autographs I think the thunderbird if I remember correctly.

[yakfisher]

Great win in OT. But come on 2 points, not what we need right now.