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New York to the World: The Minnesota Wild are boring
New York to the World: The Minnesota Wild are boring
It seems as if some members of the hockey had just experienced the Jacques Lemaire-led Minnesota Wild for the first time last night. Of course, those of us who aren't stuck with listening to the morons on the east coast have known for years what they are apparently only now realizing. The Wild ...
The Versus [drinking] Game of the Week (Minnesota at Rangers)
The Versus [drinking] Game of the Week (Minnesota at Rangers)
barrymelroserocks.com — Before we get started, I just have to make sure some mad props are given to Steve,... one of the guys I write with at the Victoria Times for having one of the only 2 perfect brackets in the BMR pick em. Not bad. (Congrats to liftedram4X4 as well for your equally as meaningless lead). We are ... (more) The Versus [drinking] Game of the Week (Minnesota at ...
Islanders Gameday: Where the Wild things aren't
Islanders Gameday: Where the Wild things aren't
lighthousehockey.com — If you loathe Jacques Lemaire for what he's done to hockey -- the mid-'90s leveraging of lax... stick-foul rule enforcement, monotonous backwards-skating forwards, and passive hockey systems imitated by dull expansion teams everywhere -- then you might want the Wild to go down tonight, miss the ... (more) Islanders Gameday: Where the Wild things aren't
Rangers (38-27-8) vs. Wild (34-30-8)
Rangers (38-27-8) vs. Wild (34-30-8)
puckcentral.blogspot.com — Big game tonight at the Garden with playoff implications for both teams. The Rangers and Wild don't... see each other often, but tonight will be a battle between two teams looking to secure playoff berths. The Wild are currently 10th in the West but only one point behind the 8th place ... (more) Rangers (38-27-8) vs. Wild (34-30-8)
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Islanders Gameday: Where the Wild things aren't
Lighthouse Hockey — ... I've got a Minnesota-born buddy who prays at the altar of Lemaire (and, incidentally, still chafes that Kyle Okposo left college early). But get this -- he hardly watches NHL hockey anymore. He liked the idea of Lemaire's expansion results in Minnesota without necessarily being keen to watch how he gets them. On that note, Hockey Wilderness has a great riff on how the Wild are no more stereotypically boring than the Rangers -- although I fear Tortorella (whose team ...

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