The next round of the playoffs begin as Minnesota Wild fans continue to work through their frustration and angst with how the post-season played out. Personally, after the initial crush of Game 5 passed, it’s the reactions I’m seeing in certain corners of Wild fandom that are more frustrating than the lost series itself. Ultimately, every team but one goes home disappointed. Not every team will consider boneheaded moves to “correct” what is a fundamental fact of the playoffs: they are really hard, somewhat random, and most everybody loses.
The terrible icing on the cake is that for a couple weeks, we’ll all read about how the players will either win and advance, or go home and play golf.