It's time for a change

The Minnesota wild are in a tailspin. It's time for a change. I don't think it's crazy to say it's time for J. Lemaire to go. I know, I know he's won 1 million Stanley cups as a player and a coach. But the one Stanley cup he did win he also had Scott Stevens and Martin Broduer. Last time I checked we don't have them. We don't even have Neil Broten. Obviously Gaborik coming back will add a spark, but how much. Will he play the rest of the season with us? Doug Risebourgh needs to be criticised along with our other fav GM Kevin McHale. Doug brought in James Sheppard whose terrible. He's kept Stephan Veilloux whose even worse. And he signed Pierre Marc Bouchard to a long term contract. Look at their numbers. These guys are NHL players??? Meanwhile you could put together and entire line of forwards and defensemen from the University of Minnesota better than any line we can produce. I'd take Vanek, Wheeler, and Kessel as my forwards, and Goligowski and Martin as my defensemen. But we have the moronic Canadians thinking they know better. Hey hop on 94W and watch a few games at Mariucii. You might see some forwards that actually score once in a while. But let's keep talking about how many cups they won in Montreal. This isn't 1970, the NHL has changed a bit. We're playing pre lockout hockey after the lock out. Here is the perfect example that they don't know what they're doing. Andrew Brunette was on our team for 3 years, 2001-2004, then the lockout happened. Mr. Risebourough didn't think he'd succeed after the lockout. So we let him go to Colorado where he amassed 200 points in 3 seasons. And then we bring him back now that he's 35. Oh yeah by the way PMB is on pace for 41 points this season, James Sheppard is on pace for 16, and Veilloux is on pace for 11. These are the players the Doug and Jaque want to put on the ice for a fan base that has sold out every single pre season, regular season, and post season game in the history of the franchise.

Optimism

When you're a sports fan in Minnesota optimism is tough to hang on too. Especially since it's like 5 below outside. But I want to talk about the NFL right now. The Minnesota Vikings are playing really well. I don't want to get too far ahead of myself right now, but let's take a look around the NFC and see where we stand. Right now we are the 3rd seed in the conference with a chance at the 2 seed. At the same time we have yet to make the playoffs, and could still end up on the outside looking in. But let's be optimists here. Let's say we win out. And let's say the Giants lose to the Panthers next weekend in Carolina. We would be the 2 seed. Carolina would be the 1, the Giants would be the 3 and the Cardinals would be the 4. And some sort of Atlanta, Philidelphia, Tampa, Dallas combination would be the 2 wild cards. Hopefully it is Atlanta and Tampa in my opinion. If that ended up being the case we would have a 4-1 record against the NFC playoff teams, and we would be riding a 6 game winning streak. So who would you pick to beat us in the playoffs? Maybe we are who we thought we were?