Article: The Wild's Youth Movement Has Reached An Awkward Stage

[Chris Schad]

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[MNCountryLife]

Faith in the old guard is strong within BG.  But Luke won the day... not Yoda.

[Citizen Strife]

You can want and wish for players to succeed all you want, but when Marcus Johansson has over ten points, and is winning you games, as opposed to young forwards getting one or zero points, and being "serviceable", you have to accept they need time to improve.

I hope Yurov, Ohgren, and Jiricek all get to the point Rossi did: sucked for 25 games, played in the AHL, and then kept getting better and better.

If the Wild's two game win streak was fools gold, ok. But they are only a few wins from the Wild Card bubble.  I want the youth to succeed, but I would also like them to tilt the ice.  Only Buium and Wally really offer anything close to that.

[Citizen Strife]

Accidental double post

Edited 4 hours ago by Citizen Strife

[Teeroy]

Not that All the youngsters are deserving, but years of bad contracts (No move/Limited move) create a impediment to them coming up for a lengthy stay or more minutes. 

[Patrick]

The problem is Hynes. He is a cowardly and uninspiring coach. Foligno has zero points and is a minus 10! Hartman has been invisible after the first couple games. KK is lackadaisical at best. He is putting up points but not playing a winning style of hockey.  The team needs a shakeup and probably a coach like Tortorella to give them a kick in the butt. (But not Torts, too boring)

[1Brotherbill]

Bogo needs to come back soon so they can send Jiricek to Iowa.  He obviously isn't trusted right now and playing from the press box isn't going to show the coaching staff he is figuring it out.

Yurov getting a head rest might help but he is another one that if they aren't going to play him they need to send him to Iowa.  He is probably in St. Paul because they are waiting form Zucarello to come back.  Which is really dumb in my mind.  Is Yurov not better than Jones, Pitlick, etc?  If he isn't better than those two maybe they need to think about trading him.

The Wild have this tendency to not play young players because they don't play like seasoned vets but they won't become seasoned vets because they aren't playing.  The younger players probably know this and they play with that in their head.  Don't make a mistake because you won't play and get sent back to Iowa.   Ohgren is probably done as a NHL player in St. Paul because he is constantly sent down for simple mistakes everyone else gets to make. 

Yurov isn't at the Ohgren level yet but it looks like the Wild might treat him the same way.  Jiricek was like that before he got here.