“I wanted a new set of eyes on this team,” Wild majority owner and Governor Craig Leipold stated to the press after making the decision to not return Chuck Fletcher as the team’s General Manager. After failing to make a First Round series competitive now three seasons in a row, Leipold thinks his team is, “a good team, but not good enough right now.”
Minnesota’s first GM Doug Risebrough didn’t last too long once Leipold purchased the team from the Naegele Group. And now, nine seasons later, Leipold, in collaboration with team President Matt Majka, will search for a new GM to make “tweaks” to the team.