https://www.nhl.com/wild/news/koivu-jersey-retire-313/c-328296504
How embarrassing is it to have Koivu's number retired... It's like they want to have mediocrity immortalised. 2/11 playoffs series lost, no wins even in the second round, "led" the team as a captain when the room was taken over by a country club attitude.
The fans having to look at that hovering over the ice. Maybe it will work as motivation in a roundabout way: "we were once so bad, that we even had to retire that. We never want to experience something like that again".
I think I'll retire number nine from my vocabulary. I'll just count to ten like "1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 omit/vomit 10".