Wild Coach FIRED!!!!

Do you really think Richards was the whole problem?? My opinion you can’t coach half A@* players Need to spend money for goal scorers

Agree, the coach wasn’t the big problem, but the coach is always the first to go.

Too bad really
Can’t blame Todd Richards for the Lack of talent.

Insert Dean Blais here

One can only get so much from a average team at best.

I guess we will see what happens next season.

It is Fletcher’s only really big splash he can make being strapped by the salary cap and and the previous front office, which was inept at best. Risbrough has put us in a hole that will take some time to get out of before we field a team that is a serious contender. Until then, the best we can hope for is a miracle run.

Fletcher does have the option to trade Brent Burns for a possible 30 goal a year scorer, but the fans are restless and I don’t know if they could stomach right now losing a fan favorite. Not that GMs should even worry what the fans think.

I dont think he was a coach that would take us anywhere even if he did have the right guys. Whats BS is the fact that we have the most ticket sales and one of the top selling jerseys in the league but we have crap for players!!

I wanna see some MN boys on the team! Alex Goligoski, Dustin Byfuglien, Leopold, Martin, Leddy….etc Spend some money you cheap a&^’s!!! Before its too late and you fill half the stands

I don’t follow hockey but it’s the same as what the T-wolves have done. If you aren’t going to spend money and bring in good talent, then you are setting your coach up for failure. I think a lot of these teams need to get rid of the GM’s when they fire the coach as well and give new blood at least three years.

Making the playoffs would be great but if they improve every year, you are at least getting closer.

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Too bad really
Can’t blame Todd Richards for the Lack of talent.

Insert Dean Blais here

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I’d like to see Dean Blais take over the Gophers, but I wouldn’t mind seeing him take over the Wild either.

In the State of Hockey we have to hold our hockey teams to a higher standard.

Again, we have already spent up to the salary cap, due in part to the last regime, so you cannot complain about them not spending money.

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Again, we have already spent up to the salary cap, due in part to the last regime, so you cannot complain about them not spending money.

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I think we all have to agree that it is how it was spent.

FDR

I think Fletch has done what he could. He addressed our lack of depth at center by grabbing Madden and Cullen.

As for wanting Minnesota player, look at picking up that bum Parrish. We still pay that piece of crap $1M a year through 2014. They should have kept him around to at least fill the water bottles or pick up pucks after practice. I could care less if the team was 100% Russian, just bring in the best players you can.

Ya well a bunch of MN boys would be a heck of a lot better then what we got. If we are at the salary cap we got a WHOLE load of sh*& for guys!! Madden and Cullen are has beens. You telling me Pitts. spends the same amount we do?! Owner is just filling his pockets and laughing at the fans

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Ya well a bunch of MN boys would be a heck of a lot better then what we got. If we are at the salary cap we got a WHOLE load of sh*& for guys!! Madden and Cullen are has beens. You telling me Pitts. spends the same amount we do?! Owner is just filling his pockets and laughing at the fans

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I can tell this is going to go no where. Pitts actually is about $3M more under the cap than us. We are about $.5M under the cap. As I said, much of this squeeze us a result of the previous regime.

I am pretty sure the owner isn’t laughing at all, since playoff mean a lot more cash and he hasn’t been to the playoffs since the year he bought the team. Add to that the sell out streak ending and the prospect of a lot of empty seats next year, he is probably closer to crying.

Richards was no different then Brewster. He came in with all the hoopla of the high powered offense he was going to bring. You can’t win the Kentucky Derby with plug horses and Jacque was bright enough to see that. Fletcher and Richards weren’t.

Did Richards do all he could with what he had? Ya, maybe. But Havlet was the leading scorer with a whopping 22 goals! There is issues that need to be addressed. Being over the cap is just one of them. Lack of players who can play is another. Houston is in the play-offs yet none of the kids we brought up all year helped.

Oh well, it will be Ken Hitchcock now and we will play clutch and grab 3-2 hockey.

Next years battle cry at the X will be “Plenty of good seats available! Come on down.”

The rookies Spurgeon and Stoner were good, but as far as young forwards there isn’t much that can come and play here and have any impact yet. The only real assets we have for a trade are Burns and Schultz. I would like to see PMB traded but his contract thanks to numb nuts makes that highly unlikely.

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Richards was no different then Brewster. He came in with all the hoopla of the high powered offense he was going to bring. You can’t win the Kentucky Derby with plug horses and Jacque was bright enough to see that. Fletcher and Richards weren’t.

Did Richards do all he could with what he had? Ya, maybe. But Havlet was the leading scorer with a whopping 22 goals! There is issues that need to be addressed. Being over the cap is just one of them. Lack of players who can play is another. Houston is in the play-offs yet none of the kids we brought up all year helped.

Oh well, it will be Ken Hitchcock now and we will play clutch and grab 3-2 hockey.

Next years battle cry at the X will be “Plenty of good seats available! Come on down.”

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Why would you trade our #3 best forward (PMB), second best offensive forward on a team that can’t score?

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Why would you trade our #3 best forward (PMB), second best offensive forward on a team that can’t score?

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Agreed. Dump the goalies. Keep the best / cheapest one and go from there. You aren’t winning next year anyway. Pull all your US and European scouts home and send them to Canada. Draft big tough forwards who aren’t afraid of the corners.Surround your goal scores. Get guys who aren’t afraid to hit somebody and chase the puck to the corners. Hockey games have been won in the corners and by goalies since the beginning of time.

PMB is the only forward I talked about trading. While I like PMB, he is like too many forwards on this team that is a pass first guy. The Wild need a shooter. There is no doubt he has skill but his biggest problem is that the Wild don’t have a big time scorer to be a linemate with. Because there is not an outstanding scoring threat on the ice with him, most of the time defensive players key on him taking him out of his game. I think you meant offensive defensman and not second best offensive forward. To that I would say, I like Burns, but you tell me what other option do they have to trade to get a quality forward? They have a mostly solid defense. Certainly stronger than the forwards. We have seen what is in the minors. I just can’t see what other options they have. They have one goalie now in Backstrom, and he has a no trade clause.

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Why would you trade our #3 best forward (PMB), second best offensive forward on a team that can’t score?

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And you want to dump all of the goalies and go with the cheapest guy around? That to do me would be a good plan if you were looking to get the next years top draft pick. The goalies this year were the only reason we were even close to a playoff spot a month ago. The wild were outshot badly in 95% of the games, and how many times did you hear that Backs, or Theo stole the game.

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Why would you trade our #3 best forward (PMB), second best offensive forward on a team that can’t score?

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Agreed. Dump the goalies. Keep the best / cheapest one and go from there. You aren’t winning next year anyway. Pull all your US and European scouts home and send them to Canada. Draft big tough forwards who aren’t afraid of the corners.Surround your goal scores. Get guys who aren’t afraid to hit somebody and chase the puck to the corners. Hockey games have been won in the corners and by goalies since the beginning of time .

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. But Havlet was the leading scorer with a whopping 22 goals!

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Free agent bust IMHO…signed by Fletcher I believe.
It was a desperate attemtp to replace Gaborick.

“Specifically”,in the NHL,it seems that most who make it to free agency come with some baggage.

No, I was still talking about Butch for the 2nd best offensive forward, I didn’t address Burns or the defense. 2nd best is debatable, we have Havlat, Koivu and Butch. All best at setting guys up and not snipers. So now I see where you are going. Still I think it would be very hard to give up Butch as a GM. Same goes for Burns, but if Fletch can pull off a good trade with them and bring in some pure scoring, I would not be upset.

They couldn’t trade Backs, nor should they. He has taken a beating the last 2 years. He has had to play on a team that is consistently out-shot and spends a lot of time in their own zone.

Trade AP

The difference in having 2 top notch goalies and finishing 9th and having no top notch goalie and finishing 12th is what?

Whether it’s Backstrom or BK or myself in net there is no play-offs in the near future for this group.

You sound like some on the Wild board who wish the Wild would tank so we can get a high draft pick.

Don’t forget, at one point they had the second best stretch since the start of the year (2011). They were right there until injuries, and IMO fatigue, set in.

I’d like to see Granlund stick here next year. Unfortunately, despite some nice highlight goals, he looks like another set up guy. I am just going by his stats.

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You sound like some on the Wild board who wish the Wild would tank so we can get a high draft pick.

Don’t forget, at one point they had the second best stretch since the start of the year (2011). They were right there until injuries, and IMO fatigue, set in.

I’d like to see Granlund stick here next year. Unfortunately, despite some nice highlight goals, he looks like another set up guy. I am just going by his stats.

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They were right there until they realized they had no talent.

Injuries do play a large part in hockey I’ll give you that. Koivou wasn’t lighting anything up this year prior to getting hurt. Everybody 100% healthy and it’s still only a 8th place team at best. I’m not one of those guys who think getting in is enough. You need to get in with a chance to win!

I still trade goal tenders for picks. But then I’m not Fletcher either. BTW, he only has 2 years left on his contract. He better put something better on the ice or he will get broomed next.