The Wild came back to spoil John Tortorella's first game as Columbus' coach.
As you read in yesterday's Walk, Todd Richards was fired by the Columbus Blue Jackets. The Blue Jackets were a team that came into the season with playoff aspirations, but got mired in an unbelievable slump that stemmed from poor goaltending. There's still time to turn it around in Columbus, but their odds are fading fast.
Sound familiar?
This was the precise scenario that Minnesota found themselves in for the last two seasons with Mike Yeo. As you know, the Wild solved their most recent slump by trading to solve their weakness in net- a decision that catapulted them into the playoffs and spared Yeo's job.