The end of the piece, because Joe's a good writer:
"Last year, the Wild had such a relentless, mentally tough approach to start the season. They followed their motto of “Choose your hard,” giving out a “HARD” chain for every player of the game in a win.
The Wild are choosing their hard differently now."
Link for those interested, although it's largely the same things already fiscussed here:
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6730603/2025/10/19/minnesota-wild-slow-start-foligno/
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Yup, Hynes and especially BG are running out of time. If the Wild underperform all year they will both be canned if the organization wants to appear competent, no excuses anymore, we’ve heard them all out it’s time to produce. And with each terrible game they play the team vastly improving with Zucc’s return feels less and less likely.
Next years training camp is definitely going to be brutal 😭 last year it was discussed so much how hard the players thought training camp was and they got off to such a hot start even with a long road trip. This year, at least for me, I didn’t hear a lot about how difficult camp was so I’m guessing next year Hynes will go even harder
I think the Wild are certainly underperforming but I think that’s also symptomatic of the number of young guns. It feels like the Wild might need to send some guys down and then bring them back up after a couple games.
Buium and Yurov have both looked good but maybe Yurov could use a week in Iowa to get some scoring. Ohgren seems like he could use a little time in the minors again as well.
That and I think the lines might need a little bit of shake up it feels like they aren’t comfortable with eachother. Maybe it’s just a slow start and the Wild have had successful seasons with slow starts. I am reminded of Goose when after their win over Carolina he in his post game to fans told the fans to hold and they were figuring it out.