After beating the Sharks on Tuesday, Bruce Boudreau cautioned Wild players and fans to pump the brakes a bit, hoping to avoid setbacks as the team attempted to climb out of the gutter. But on Thursday, the team didn’t just pump the brakes and ease the bus over to the side of the road when things got treacherous. It instead slammed on the brakes in icy conditions, sending the bus right back into its spin, and redirecting it straight toward the same gutter that the Wild has called home for the entire month of March.
If the Wild plays out the rest of the regular season in the same manner that it played Thursday night against Philadelphia, we’re all in for a real drab two weeks.