Tom Powers: Wild need to turn patience to impatience - or else

Note to Wild: You only live once, so get out there and take a chance.

The Wild are obsessed with not allowing a goal. They are more than obsessed, actually; they are "possessed" by Demon Defense. They get into their structural box and defend, defend, defend and then hope the Blackhawks get bored or something and have a lapse in judgment.

If I hear the word "patience" one more time I will explode. The Wild are down 3-0 in the Western Conference semifinals; how much more patient do they want to be?

The Blackhawks are not going to break down. They are not going to give the Wild many chances to counterpunch. Chicago is playing the same game, same style as the Wild -- only better. So maybe the Wild…