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That's good to hear. The old Wild boards were about as leaderless as the team is...

That's really nice to hear. I am SO glad I found this site. The old Wild site was getting run over by trolls and had little to no moderation. Even if someone got doxxed on there the board moderator did nothing. I tried a few other boards, but they were so anal about playing nice that you couldn't criticize anything or anyone or you got booted. I'm starting to enjoy myself here lurking on other teams, boards just to see if us Wild fans are hyper-critical of the team or if the team is truly as screwed up as we think...

That's better than the green font...

We used to highlight our text in green on the old WMB for sarcasm...when we remembered to...

I think the Wild really need look at their farm system. It’s almost an afterthought with the organization. They keep bringing in coach after coach trying to change the culture, but continue to have a miserable farm club. At this point it’s not the coach. It’s the players. Or lack of quality players. They keep pulling prospects up to the big club long before they are ready, leaving Iowa to fill in with AHL journeymen.

To me, by calling up Kunin instead of say, Sam Anas, what kind of message does that send to guys that are busting their hump in Iowa and were leading that team? That only #1 picks are worthy of a call up? And if Kunin was uninspired to lead in Iowa, what does that say about his character? Isn't that why the Wild drafted him, because he was a "leader"? Mikko Mk II? To me if they called up Kunin because he felt he should have been with the big club, they've got another Thomas Vanek on their hands...like when Vanek was playing like crap and then told Yeo for him to play better he needed more ice time on the top two lines rather than being demoted to the third and fourth lines...

You bring up an interesting point. Fletcher was working without a contract, and for him to get another contract it was imperative the team not only make the Playoffs, they needed to get past the first round. I’m pretty sure he messed his drawers when both Coyle and Niederreitter went down. Having a healthy Coyle and Niederreitter was probably essential to having the team get home ice advantage. When they went down, that shot at home ice probably also went down the drain. So then he grasps at straws and calls up his latest draft pick Kunin hoping he hits a home run? Desperate times call for desperate measures...

The problem is that even though all the coaches in Iowa want a winning culture, the parent club gives them no support when they are constantly pulling "prospects" up to the big club for stupid reasons such as "giving them a taste" of the NHL. And I still can't figure out how Kunin "deserved" a call up, but Anas didn't...

Why do you think that is? Too much shuffling back and forth with the parent club? Not enough experience? Players just worn down from doing too much? Overrated players? You would think the Wild would want to invest in their farm system and get it to a point where there is a winning culture in Iowa that could transfer to Minnesota when players are called up when they are fully developed. But I've always had the impression that the Wild are kind of like helicopter parents that don't trust their farm system to develop players, so they rush them to the parent club so they can "develop" them leaving the farm club with a patchwork of players that have trouble building chemistry which leads to a losing culture...

I’ve noticed this disturbing trend with Wild prospects...5’9”, 5’10”, 5’9”, 5’8”, 5’11”...

Yah, cripes! You betcha!

Hopefully #9 will be gone in two years. If his production declines the way it did last season, the Wild are going to have another Jason Pominville on their hands... I'm not sure why #11 is so concerned about ice time. He's never on the ice anymore. Always some injury holding him out for a week here or a month there... Suter is at least putting up numbers, however it may be to the detriment of the team. Especially on the power play. Why is he constantly allowed to play the point and then flip that limp wrist shot at the net?

That's because every offensive player they draft HAS to be a two-way player...

One thing I certainly hope Fenton changes is the Wild's practice of giving prospects roster spots before they earn it. Just to give them incentive...I really hope they send Greenway to Iowa and let him develop at his own pace. Show he can dominate at the AHL level and then call him up. And I agree with you on Kunin. I thought they should have gone with Kieffer Bellows. But they were looking for Mikko's replacement, so yay... How much of Sokolov's production hinged on the fact that he was partnered with this years potential #1 overall pick Andrei Svechnikov? Are we looking at the Zach Phillips/Charlie Coyle dynamic at St. Johns, where one had great numbers because of the other player?

Yup. And if I remember correctly, the reason he didn't want to come over to the Wild was because he wanted to complete the contract he had with TPS Turku and finish his military service...

Fear of the name increases the fear of the thing itself...

Yeah, decided to change things up and went with my favorite song from The Vandals...

KA in the house...