If you would have said last July that the Wild would be 4-5-1 10 games into the 2012-13 NHL season, you would have been thrown into Lake Minnetonka.
But here we are, 10 games into the NHL season. After winning their first two games, the Wild are 2-5-1, on a three-game losing streak, and in third place in the Northwest Division and 11th in the Western Conference
This start is certainly not what the Wild and their fans were expecting when the team spent over $200 million in free agency this offseason on superstars Zach Parise and Ryan Suter, and adding depth pwith players like Torey Mitchell and Zenon Konopka. Not to mention the plethora of young talent awaiting the call in Houston like Mikael Granlund, Jonas Brodin, Jason Zucker and Charlie Coyle.
The stars were aligning in the north.
While Parise has lived up to expectations, the rest of the team hasn't. Suter only has four assists, and his numbers don't reflect how much ice time he gets. Granlund has struggled to adapt to the NHL game. He was originally expected to be the Wild’s second line center, but was flat out benched in last night's 4-1 loss to the Van ...
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