POST CAST: Wild Fall Behind Early, Rally and Fall 6-5 to Sharks

POST CAST: Wild Fall Behind Early, Rally and Fall 6-5 to Sharks

The previously one- win San Jose Sharks get out to an early lead. They get left on the ice for three plus minutes in overtime and still find a way to beat the Minnesota Wild 6 to5. And the Wild now 35 and two. They just lost to the worst five on five defense in the NHL. and they still had to rely on power play scoring. Uh, this team’s a mess, folks. And I still am at the point that I don’t believe anybody I don’t believe anybody that is in a position with this team really feels like there’s any sense of urgency at what is going on right now. Every other team in the West other than maybe Calgary got better this off season. And I don’t like your chances to have to try to climb out of a hole against the rest of the Central Division. This it just a another in a long series of sleepwalk games at Grand Casino Arena. Krill Capri off. I know he had three assists tonight, but that is about as bad of a three assist game as you can possibly play. And again, it comes down to I don’t think there is any sense of urgency at the start yet. It just looks like a team that is just content with what happens out there and that’s a problem. Boy oh boy. Uh we got a lot to talk about. [Music] You are Locked on Wild Postcast, part of Locked on Minnesota on the Locked On Network, your team every day. Minnesota Wild fall by a score of 6 to5 in overtime to the San Jose Sharks. They fell behind in this game 20-0 42 53 and lost 6 to5. It took the Wild until midway through the first period to score on the worst defense in the NHL. The Sharks had allowed the most goals in the entirety of the NHL, both in five on five play and power play scoring. And it took until the 17minute mark of the first period to get the first goal of the game. The Wilds score two and 30 seconds. The Sharks come back midway through the second and they score two in 20 seconds. And it it is a team that just it’s lifeless out there. It’s a sleepwalking zombie type approach for this Minnesota Wild team. The level of general the level of general un inattentiveness to passing the puck. The number of Dzone Dzone turnovers is startling and it just it looks like a team that just again doesn’t really care. And this was a this is a disaster class as far as coaching goes and we could have seen it coming in a mile away. Um, at the beginning of the game when I saw the D pairings, I said on X, the Urchek Buham pairing is just daring John Hines to not play them in the third period. And they really didn’t. They didn’t play until Urchek came out for the penalty kill in the third period. and he ended up kind of drifting off his spot and the Wild surrendered a goal there. But I just I I I don’t know what you expect from a guy who sits on the bench for most of the period and then comes in in a critical spot. And you know, I I get annoyed because I saw on social media that the team X account was praising the minutes played by top players. Krill Capri off playing 27 minutes tonight, which I do believe was one of the highest minute amounts that he has played in a game. I’m going to pull up the exact um I’m going to pull up the exact tweet here. Along with his three assists, Carell Capri off skated a season high 27 minutes and 8 seconds in tonight’s game against San Jose. That is also the highest total by a forward in the NHL this season. That’s not a point of that that’s not a point of pride. That’s not a brag point. I wouldn’t be trying to turn that into a positive. But I guess when the team plays like this, you really have no choice. Like I I just I don’t get it. I don’t understand. I don’t understand how you can go into a game after what happened against Utah yesterday, how you can go into a game like this and just resign yourself to the fact of, okay, we’re down two nothing. We’ll figure it out. And if you want to if you want to hold solace in the comeback, go right ahead. But I just you shouldn’t be putting yourself in that position against a team like this. It’s a great team that has a lot of a lot of exciting offensive talent. They don’t play a lick of defense. They don’t play a lick of defense. And for you to be held to two goals 80% of the way through the second period against a team like this, that’s awful. And that’s not even to talk about some of the the coaching decisions uh as far as as minutes go. I mean, Yurichek played under nine. Denilov got five and a half minutes in in this game. We are to the point in the season 10 games in where panic mode has set in so much as far as the lineup goes. If you’re going to play Denilov five minutes a night, send him to Iowa. He’s not getting served any bit by playing five minutes a night on this fourth line. Like that’s doing no one any good. That’s doing no one any level of good. But hey, you know, gotta gotta make sure that you get Vinnie and Estrosa an opportunity on the third line. It’s baffling. It’s baffling. And I just [Music] I just don’t understand. I I don’t get it. Marcus Johansson did score again today. Credit to him. He has he has put together a nice stretch of games here, but the big offseason acquisition goes 17 minutes with zero registered shots on goal. And he had another opportunity in close that just he just airma mailed again. or it’s a whiff on a shot. And as far as the I’m seeing some of the comments as far as the making a coaching change, making a anything at this point, there needs to be an acknowledgement that what is happening isn’t working. And I haven’t seen any level of that from anyone in a position to make that sort of a call. So I I don’t know if that’s coming. I don’t know if it’s coming at this point. It may, if this continues, it will probably come at some point, but I don’t I don’t think that sort of a move is coming right now. I asked I asked earlier today and I I put it out on X. What is the what are the actual ramifications? What are the actual ramifications for people in positions of power in this organization if this team doesn’t make the playoffs this year? Bill Garren going anywhere? John Hines going anywhere? John Hines I could see, but I don’t think Bill Garren’s in I don’t think he’s in danger at this point if the Wilds miss the playoffs. Like it’s and it’s it’s it’s an old it’s an old roster. It’s an old roster. It’s a tired roster and the old guys are being put in positions and are doing things that you could make very easy cases for benching, but the moment one of the younger players makes a mistake, they are ripped out of the lineup. Seems backwards to me. I would love if I would love if there was an opportunity to possibly be bad enough to get in the Gavin McKenna sweep stakes, but we all know that’s not going to happen. There will be a course correction at some point for this team and they’re going to finish 15th or 16th in the standings. What did go well, you say? Let’s uh let’s take a look. Let’s take a peek. Um the Wild did manage more shots on goal. Congrats. They went two for four on the power play. Faceoffs were relatively even. But the the big number that I am surprised by is that of the six goals that San Jose scored tonight, four of them were high danger goals. The Sharks had an expected goals tonight of 3.7. They scored six times. Do you put a lot of that on Yesper? Do you put a lot of that on the defense? Let’s put it equally on both. There just were a lot of there’s a lot of just watching on defense and that it’s not good enough. It’s not anywhere close to good enough. And the Sharks are a young enough team that they nearly let the Wild back into it. And you possess the puck for three plus minutes in overtime. You get a couple of shots off. You hold at others and you cough the puck up at the blue line and Celibbrini takes it down the rest of the way and that’s it. As far as Capri off himself, I I I don’t know. I I don’t know what it is at this point. I mean, could he be hurt? Certainly. But I I think I really do think it boils down to the fact that this team is just way too comfortable. They’re way too comfortable. When is the last time that there were legitimate consequences for having a bad season? When is the last time there were legitimate consequences for that? Because all we’ve heard the last few seasons is, well, the buyouts, the buyouts, the buyouts, the buyouts. So, everybody that is on this team got a pass. They got a pass for the last four years. And now a slow start this year. Well, we, you know, we’re in we’re in year four or five. We’re in year four of the five-year plan. It just it just feels like this team is way too comfortable. I’m gonna end up saying it way too much tonight, but I look out there and I just see the same look, the same response, the same actions when the other team scores a goal. It’s just a lot of the same. And it is I just I just don’t see anybody that is overly perturbed with what’s happening. And I will say to be fully fair, I’m not in the locker room, so I can’t I can’t 100% speak to that, but what we see in public and out on the ice doesn’t seem like anybody’s overly perturbed by this. And that’s a problem. But when you have a roster that doesn’t change much over the course of four seasons, with the exception of one or two guys a year, they have not changed this roster hardly at all. And that’s not that’s not super common. Still been mostly the same top six the last four years. It’s been just a shuffling on the decor. Like maybe maybe it’s me being dumb, but I kind of want to see somebody I kind of want to see somebody break something. I kind of want to hear about somebody losing their cool because this cannot be acceptable. There’s no circumstance in which this kind of a start could be acceptable with the talent that this team has. The talent routinely routinely one of the five best defenses in the league. There’s no excuse for this. You have players that are routinely mentioned as some of the most underrated defenseman in the league. You’ve got defensive forwards. Zero excuse for the penalty kill being as bad as it is. Two more power play goals for the San Jose Sharks tonight. You got one of the 10 best players in the NHL. You’ve got another forward that is widely regarded as one of the best emerging players in the league. There is zero excuse for this offense to be the worst five on five offense in hockey. You got to raise the standard, folks. You got to raise the standard. And I think what is going to need to happen, I think you got to ship somebody out. I really do. I think you got to ship somebody out to send a message to this roster. I’m not talking Rossy. I’m not talking Baldi. I’m not talking Capri off. I’m talking one of the other guys. You got to send somebody off to ship a me to send a message to this team that the start is unacceptable. And if it’s if if I’m if it’s fine, like if if this is fine, then what are we doing here? What are we doing? An eighth of the way into the season. 10 more games, you’ll be at the quarter poll. And guess who you have ga guess who you have in the next 10 games? Winnipeg, Pittsburgh, Vancouver, Nashville, Carolina, New York Islanders, Calgary, San Jose, Anaheim, Vegas. San Jose is supposed to be one of the winnable games on the schedule. Maybe you beat Calgary. Guess what? Pittsburgh’s no slouch. Pittsburgh is supposed to be terrible this year, but guess what? They’re playing for Crosby. They’re no slouch. Anaheim, New York Islanders, Nashville. Hey, Nashville’s ahead of you in the standings right now. I I I I’m just calling it like I see it. I hit my if if you want the honest answer that New Jersey Devils game kind of broke my brain as far as this team goes. A New Jersey Devils team that has big players. I wouldn’t say they play big by any stretch and they got walked in that game. They got walked. They got bullied off the puck. They got moved around. That was my, yeah, this is not probably not going to be this is probably not going to go well. That was my moment cuz I had preached patience up to this point. But you pride yourself on being a big tough team and you get out toughed by a team that is slightly smaller than you. Yeah, that’s a problem. Uh, we are going to I think we’re going to take a break. I am just dying to see some of the postgame comments. I feel like at this point in the season, we are already approaching players only meeting time. At least I hope we are. But uh I don’t know. I I’m going to talk about part of the other issue because admitting that there is a problem, I don’t get the sense that there is a thought that there is one. So let’s uh let’s let’s sneak in a break. We got plenty more coming up. Uh, Minnesota Wild lose six to five in overtime to the San Jose Sharks. More Postcast on the way next. Today’s Postcast is brought to you by FanDuel. The NBA is back and there is no better place to get in on the action than FanDuel, the official sports betting partner of the NBA. Even if you miss the start of the game or want to ride the hot hand, FanDuel has live bets on everything from who will score next to fourth quarter comebacks. Plus, you can even combine your live bets into a same game parlay for a shot at a bigger payout. I hope for your sake you took the over on the Wild and Sharks game. 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Billy’s going to have to make an early season trade again to spark the team again so they can barely make a wild card spot again and lose in the first round again. I like that. Um, let’s do this for a uh little historical episode. Uh, so let’s go back to last year. Uh, I want to go to Thanksgiving over the last few seasons. So, the Wild are currently 35 and two or for all of the everydayers. You know by now overtime losses are just losses that take longer. So, the Wild are really 3-7. Last year at Thanksgiving, the Minnesota Wild were 144 and4. The one time in the last 5 years that they’ve been fully healthy early in the season. The one time they’ve been banking on it every year. It’s happened once. So 144 and four last year. Let’s go to 2324. This is not as fun. Uh the Minnesota Wild lost before Thanksgiving. to uh that was two years ago. That was actually when John Hines came in. They lost to Detroit to go to 510 and four. And that was the last game that Dean Evson coached back in 2023 2024. But on Thursday, November 2nd, the Wild lost the second end of a back-to-back to New Jersey to fall to 35 and two on the season. They then rallied for a 5 to4 shootout win against New York and beat the Islanders 4-2. They then lost seven straight games, seven straight games to fall to 510 and four. At that point, uh 2223 at Thanksgiving, the Minnesota Wilds find themselves with a 98-2 record after beating Winnipeg 6 to1. They then lost to Toronto 4-3 the Friday after 21-22 the year we’ve been trying to replicate for four years at Thanksgiving. The Minnesota Wild were 126 and one. So two years they’ve been good at the Thanksgiving point. We all know we all know the adage about Thanksgiving. If you’re in the playoffs by Thanksgiving, pretty good odds that you’re going to stay there. Do we want to see where the Minnesota Wild are at right now? As far as the playoff push goes, uh the Minnesota Wild are two points out behind the Nashville Predators who have played one fewer game. The Minnesota Wild have played the most games in the Western Conference right now and they have they have more points than three teams. But hey, it’s fine. The Wild are just one gritty 35 plus vet away from being elite. Look at how Utah has developed their young guys and they have we have basically little to nothing over the last few years. Mainly because the coaches are scared to play the young players unless they play perfectly. Unless they come in and they play absolute mistake free hockey, in which case then yeah, they’re probably ready for a fourthline spot. I just don’t Well, I was going to say I just don’t get it, but it’s not a development it. It’s not a development situation. The Wilder not trying to develop young players. Well, they’re trying to get to the playoffs to maybe make it past the first round for the first time in 10 years. They’re not trying to develop these guys. And that is, I think, evident by the players that we continue to see trotted out in those spots because unless somebody absolutely goes crazy in training camp, they’re just going to Iowa. I mean, the Sharks are doing it right now, too. Mlin Celibbrini is better. Make no mistake about it. And Chicago fans, if you’re listening, I’m sorry. Mlin Celbrini is better than Connor Baddard. He just is. That guy is going to be He’s going to be one of the best, if not the best player in the NHL in a couple years. outrageously talented, skills off the charts. I would get season tickets to the San Jose Sharks to watch him play on a nightly basis and I don’t even live there. So tired of some of the players and coaches saying not to worry. It’s early in the season. I forget that the NHL ruled that games in October don’t count. Yeah, what’s the old adage? You can’t make the playoffs in October, but you can certainly lose out of them. I mean, there’s one team in the Central Division that is behind you in the standings right now. It’s the St. Louis Blues. Chicago is 42 and2 through their first eight games. They got a positive goal differential. Nashville is 43 and2. I bet they’re thrilled about the fact that they’re above 500 at this point, kind of. Um, I bet they’re thrilled about where they’re at compared to last year. Dallas, they had their backs against the wall. They pulled out a win. Winnipeg, I think we uh I think we know kind of what happened there. I definitely discounted them this year. They’re in the third spot. Colorado doesn’t lose in regulation, so they’re in the second spot. And the Utah Mammoth have won seven games in a row. They have the best goal differential in the Western Conference at plus 13. They have the most goals scored in the Western Conference at 37. Outrageously fun team to watch. It would they had what, three goals in the first five minutes on Saturday. It’s an old entire team and I what is going to fix what is going on with like this isn’t a Matt Zookerella issue. This isn’t a Nico Sturm issue. This is the overall construction of this team and continuing to bank on the same group of players being able to recreate the one season in which you were able to get a second line that could score. The one season in which you were able to get a consistent second line that could score. Well, guess what? It turns out that’s because you had Kevin Fiala on the second line. I I do remember when Dino kept putting Pat Maroon in the top six. It’s the same problem, though. It’s the same problem that we’ve been dealing with for the last few years. You You are grasping at straws. You’re trying to inject life that you don’t have into those spots. The reason that Marcus Johansson has been successful as he has is because he’s one of the only players on this team that has any level of speed and his speed metrics, by the way, are like the 60th percentile in the NHL. But compared to the compared to the Minnesota Wilds, he he would probably he would be able to complete two full laps of the ice before half the guys on the team could get down there once. But until it’s until there’s an admission that hey, this isn’t working. Until there’s an admission from up top, it’s going to continue to be it’s going to continue to just be, well, we we got to play better. How often have we heard that refrain? We got to play better. We got to play better. John Hines postgame press conference included saying you have to channel the energy the right way. Once again, Brock Faber being made to face the press in the locker room for the second consecutive game. In your perfect world, what’s the trade you make? What are we giving up? One trade to turn the season around. Jared Spurgeon, wherever you want him to go. Easy. Done. Easy fix. We’ve been talking about that for three years, too. is that Jared Spurgeon and Jonas Broaddin, as good as they are that at some point they’re going to get to the age that their skill level starts to decline. And it may be prudent to try to avoid such situation while they’re both playing on the roster. But I firmly believe that there should be some sort of shakeup trade. It’s got to be a shakeup trade. And it’s I think it’s got to be a fairly big one cuz it’s just at this point it’s just it’s complacency. It’s complacency. It’s comfortability. There has not been any level there’s not been any level of consequences for this team over the last four years. Yeah, it’s great. It’s great to have a tight-knit room, but it gets to the point that the room is so tight-knit that guys are afraid to say something to players that are not pulling their weight, and that creates behind the scenes resentment issues. There are a handful of guys there are a couple of guys that are pulling above their weight right now. Most of the rest are not. And it’s it’s a situation where if it were me, I would be a little frustrated if I was doing everything that I knew I needed to do. And you’ve got guys on the team that aren’t. And the guys on the team that are not continue to just get put in the same spots in the lineup as if nothing’s going on. Like I’ve watched I’ve watched this team. This will be year five now. This will be the fifth season that I have covered the team. And I think there’s a clear-cut difference between a slow start. This team just they they look like they’ve got no juice. They don’t have any juice to start the season. This seems different than a slow start. after a after a road trip in which you went 1 13 and one and you come home and you give up three goals in the first five minutes of the game to a team that had just a younger roster. There’s zero reason like you’ve got to you’ve got to come back home before the before the Saturday game. You got to come back home before the Saturday game and make sure that every single player in that locker room knows, hey guys, we got to get up for this. We got to get up. We got to be ready to go. And I don’t care if it’s a goal right off the bat. I don’t care if it’s Marcus Fellino decleading somebody. You got to do something to send a message to start the game. And they give up three goals in the first five minutes. And they give up the first two goals tonight. And that’s why I am so adamant that I just want to see some sign that somebody is upset with what we’re seeing. Throw a chair, break a stick. It may sound trivial, but what it does signify is that what is going on right now is not enough. It’s optics media. We We live in the world of optics quite a bit, a lot. The optics of what is happening with this team right now are very bad. Very bad. And until there’s an admission of such, it’s not going to change. You play Winnipeg on Tuesday. Good luck. Winnipeg is off to a great start. Mark Shiffley’s got eight goals on the season, I think. Connor Hellbuk, hey, that’s going to that’s that’s going to solve the five on five scoring. He’s going up against one of the best goalies in the NHL. We made it. Five on five scoring solved. And guess what? Winnipeg’s a big team on the back end. They’re going to try to push you around. I think it’s time to admit that there needs to be a shakeup. And I don’t say I don’t say that lightly, but it’s this it just is it’s a roster that looks old and tired in a league full of young and exciting. So, I mean, yeah, it’s great. It’s great that they rallied. It’s great that they rallied to And this is a great point. This is a great point, too. I’m glad I’m glad this was brought in uh to the chat here. I know Carrill’s $17 million contract does not kick in until next year. He’s got to be He’s got to be way better. He’s got to be way better. He’s He’s not hitting the $9 million mark as far as value goes right now. Pretty much all of his scoring has been power play. And I will scream from the mountain tops that you can’t rely on power play scoring for an entire season. You have to figure out five on five. And at five on five, Carrill has a lot on the table that he’s got to add to it. So, it’s I just saw somebody that covers the Rangers say the Rangers are a collection of people that play hockey. That feels like the Minnesota Wild. They’re a collection of hockey players. They don’t have chemistry at this point. They don’t have there just is no there is there is a lack of skill. There’s a lack of speed. There’s a lack of skating. There’s there is zero identity. And it just looks like a team that’s kind of resigned to its fate. You got to you you got to shake it up. you you have to drop a seismic type change to shake this team out of complacency. And it’s hard to it’s hard to um it’s hard to gauge how some of the young players have played because they have been taken out of key situations. like Zeve not playing at all in overtime because again you you rely it it’s it’s like a golf swing. You may make changes, you may make tweaks to try to be better, but the moment things go wrong, you revert. You revert. Do you think Billy sees how atrocious they look or are they too blinded? I like I just I don’t get the sense I’m not going to get the sense that there is any sort of acknowledgement of where they’re at right now until there is some sort of a meeting or and again this is probably just me this is probably just me being dumb like just me being kind of dumb reactionary like I just need to see I need to see some sort of a raising of the temperature to understand that that there’s somebody upstairs that knows what’s going on. Your three bottom players tonight uh courtesy of the hockey stat cards. I’ll tweet this out so that everybody can see it. Your your two worst players tonight by sizable margins were Jared Spurgeon and Jake Middleton. Players that had negative impacts tonight included Vladimir Terosenko, Tyler Pitlick, Danila Yurov. I would argue Danilla just didn’t have an impact. He played five minutes. Ben Jones, David Uraichek, Jake Middleton, Jared Spurgeon. Brock Faber was massively in positive territory. Um, I’d like to give Brock Faber some credit for putting money where putting his money where his mouth is and actually working to try to improve his performance. Um, he had a multi-point effort tonight for the first time in a while. He’s been as hard on himself as anybody on the team. So, I I do appreciate that from Favor. Obviously, uh Ryan Hartman had a uh a solid performance tonight with the goal. Um Carell generated a lot of offense, but those turnovers have to stop. The the general carelessness with the puck that this team exhibits is mindnumbing. So, I don’t know. I’m at the I’m at the point. I really am. I’m at the point where I just I I feel like this current this current recipe has got to be um injected with something. Uh why does Hines not like the young players so much? For an exceedingly average coach, one would think he would be used to them by now. Um, I really don’t know because like it’s the the general assumption the general assumption is that um rookie players are going to make mistakes that are going to likely cost you games. Um, and I guess that’s something that coaches can’t live with. Flip side, I would rather a a young player come in and make mistakes because they’re actually doing something. Like here’s so here’s what I will uh I’ll throw your check a bone. And I know that power play goal that was scored because he vacated his spot. Not great, not good, but at least he was doing something. So, I don’t know. That’s that’s progress, I guess. At least people are trying things. any clues why they can’t pass the pro puck properly like ever? Um, again, because I just I don’t think there are any I don’t think there are any consequences. I don’t think there are any consequences for bad performances. I really don’t. would Dbor. Okay, this is this is gonna be the last one that I um this will be the last one because I I gotta I gotta go get lunch. I gotta go eat lunch. Um yes, I said lunch at 9:00. Been a long day. Um Pete Dbor, let’s talk about Pete Dbor for a second. The Pete Dbor experience leads to an early deep run for the team that he coaches. Um it leads to an early run, you know, second round, third round and deteriorates from there. like the the reason that people want to go to Dbor is because he has won playoff series before. He’s not a great developer of talent. He publicly feuded with Jay Cottoner last year and got ran out of town in Dallas. He got ran out of town in San Jose. He got ran out of town in Vegas. If it’s me, I want either an upandcoming coach from the college ranks or I want a top assistant from somebody that has a proven track record of winning. You can’t like these guys that the Wild have pulled in. You know, Dean Everson was a coach from a long time ago and then a top assistant. And I liked Dean, but he was incredibly incredibly rigid with his strategies, with his lineups. And if you found a way to beat him, he did not have the answer to to combat that. But these teams have they’ve achieved regular season success. The Minnesota Wild, they’ve achieved regular season success and no playoff success. I would. And here’s the other funny thing. Lane Lambert, previously with the um previously with the Islanders, I believe, who’s now coaching the Seattle Kraken. Uh Seattle off to a 52 and2 start and they’re they’re playing much better than they have the last few years. But they also acknowledged that they got it wrong and Lane Lambert came in and said here are the things that we are going to do and they have they have fully supported him in those efforts. And on the David Carl front, guys, he just signed an extension with Denver. And until this situation gets sorted out a little bit more, I don’t know. Is it a desirable spot? You got Carell Capri off. You’ve got a lot of young talent, but where is it? I want um I don’t want to I don’t want a retread. I want somebody that is going to become I would what I would like to what I would like to try to find is the next John Cooper. Somebody who has won at every level. Somebody who has been through every level of the system. has won at every level of the system and is going to establish. It has a way that he has done it that you don’t question. But I’m not going to I’m not going to get into the coach stuff until it actually happens because that’s a Billy decision. or if you go a little higher than that, that’s going to be a that’s going to be a Craig decision. I will say though, I I can say this with 100% I can say this with 100% certainty. If John Hines were to be let go, um if John Hines were to be dismissed, the the replacement is already waiting. If Hines gets the axe, Greg Cronin has taken the job. I said it on the live show this afternoon. I’ll say it again. I would not be shocked in the slightest if that was an assurance for Cronin taking the job. Is that if there was something that happened at the NHL squad where they made a change that it was his job. I can pretty much guarantee that. So, that is probably what we’re going to get at this point. But, is Billy going to get another opportunity to fire a coach? You usually get one. You usually get an opportunity if you come in as a new GM, you get the opportunity to remove the guy that’s there if they’re not to your liking. You get to hire your guy. If that doesn’t work out and that coach ends up, then the record is not good. Usually the GM’s the next one that goes. And let’s keep in mind too, this is the same, this is basically the same roster that we have seen over the last few years. So, some of that blame’s got to point some of that blame’s got to point back at the players, too. And that again is why I circle back to I think that there needs to be there needs to be a shakeup. And I don’t even I don’t even necessarily mean bringing somebody in to um you know to try to salvage. You just got you got to you got to get a defibrillator. You got to get a defibrillator in here and shock them back. And as far as the no move clauses go, there are ways around those. There are ways around those. That’s not an issue. The issue is the GM being put in a situation to where he actually does anything about it. So, but hey, at least we have at least we have these statistics. I’m going to be just an absolute evil person. And I’m going to leave you with this. The Minnesota Wild currently ranked 30th in the NHL in goals per game at 2.44. The Minnesota Wild ranked 30th in penalty kill 6.67. The keep in mind these stats are before tonight’s game. And the Minnesota Wild rank 27th 28th in goals against. If it smells like crap, it looks like crap. It’s probably crap. H Well, we’ll get to do this again Tuesday. I cannot wait to talk to Alex about uh what we have seen um here tonight. And I uh I think with I think with uh Jesse Pierce, I’m going to in solidarity, I think I’m going to go get some Taco Bell. Uh Minnesota Wild’s six to five loss in OT. It’s getting it’s getting late early, folks. Um, we will uh we’ve of course got an episode coming for you uh tomorrow and all week. I’ll be at the game in person on Tuesday. So, can’t wait to see what it looks like. Can’t wait to see what they don’t show you on the camera. But, uh that’s Tuesday’s problem. Uh make sure to like before you head out for the night. Uh make sure to uh hit that like button. Make sure to follow along if you have not already on YouTube. We uh we’re at 3680 subscribers. Uh tell your friends if you’re looking for a Minnesota Wild podcast that tells it how it is. Uh Lockdown Wild is your best bet. Although again, I’m going to I’m going to send some love to the uh to the uh the wonderful folks at Jud’s Hockey Show. I know uh I know they will be uh they’ll be all over this, too. Um, it just there’s no excuse for that. There’s no excuse for that kind of a game. And that’s that’s all I’m going to say about it. So, see you later. Locked on wild postcast signing off. The Wild lose six to five. Yuck.

The Minnesota Wild continued their early season struggles as they fell to San Jose 6-5 in Overtime at Grand Casino Arena Sunday. The Wild fell to 3-5-2 on the season and 1-2-1 at home as they surrendered 2 early goals to the Sharks before Marcus Johansson and Marco Rossi scored to tie things at 2-2 after 1 period. The Sharks scored two straight goals midway through the second to take a 4-2 lead before Ryan Hartman scored a Power Play goal to make it 4-3. The Sharks pushed back to a 2 goal lead and Zeev Buium cut it to 5-4 with his second goal of the season. Joel Eriksson Ek scored with just over 2 minutes left to tie the score at 5. In Overtime the Wild held most of the Sharks lineup on the ice for over 3 minutes and surrendered a breakaway goal to Macklin Celebrini to drop the game. Jesper Wallstedt stopped 28 of 33 shots for the Wild in net. The Wild host Winnipeg on Tuesday for their next game.

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