The Minnesota Wild’s season is over, it was a season of difficulties, injuries and successes highs and lows with excitement and frustrations. Jacque LeMeire has coached the Wild from the start and is considering calling it quits and retiring from coaching. I think that it may be time for the Minnesota Wild to move another direction, while Coach Limier looks over his options the other coaches are chopping at the bit to move in to the lead spot. What one of the assistant coaches dissevers a chance to move up? What direction with they take the team and will they finally open up the players so they can shoot the puck when they have the option? While under Limier, the Wild have found some success, they need to find the way past the basic success and win the Stanley Cup, Yes they need to find a way to bring the Cup to the State Of Hockey!
While stand out players keep moving up from Huston, Marion Gaborik in what could quite possibly be his last game in a Wild Sweater play his best game that I have ever seen him play. Gaborik only really lost the puck one time that I remember, Brunette played his game that was great to see, and Meko Koivu was rocking the ice, Backstrom, and solid as a backstop! Do the Wild hold the ability to win the cup? No, but two or three core players could bring the cup to Minnesota where it rightly belongs.
As a fan and a season ticket holder I felt a little ripped off. Every year the Wild end the season by giving the Jersey off their back to the fans, this is done on the last home game, this year they did it on the second to last home game, now you may say so? However, as the season ticket owner I take the last game just for that reason, so I have a chance to win a jersey, so the second to last game this year was not my game and the last game just seamed like any other game in the season. By the way I have four other people in my group, so we split the tickets five ways, the person that had the second to last home game did not win a jersey either. She told us that it was rigged, because most of the winners were in the club level then the suite level then the main level then the upper level, why do they do that. I have been a season ticket holder from the start, many of the club tickets are owned by business, and they give tickets to who ever, most never go to games more than once or twice a year, to me that just does not seem fare.
So Gabby and the Wild are both stuck, no trades nothing… There is a very good chance that Gabby will walk away from the Wild and leave them in a bind. See Gabby needs season ending surgery on his hip so kiss him good bye for this season.