Article: Can the Wild Get Marcus Foligno Back to Form in the Second Half?

[Chris Schad]

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[Pewterschmidt]

Bro had one outlier season (GREEF line) and since he’s reverted back to the player he’s always been.  Big body, low skill vibes guy.  That meatball happens to love.  He should have been traded at peak market value a few years ago, instead of extended , for a young ish middle six forward.  Instead we have a broken down vibes merchant.  Fuck’n meatball.  

[Dis-allowed display name]

As someone with a big tinfoil hat who believes in conspiracy theories, I think back to a playoff series a couple years back, maybe it was Colorado.  We fell in the first round and the Wild got blown out and booed at home in the final game. (that really narrows it down, doesn't it?)  It was the round where we let in a goal on nearly every PK with just about zero resistance.

 

In that series, we came out looking like the Wild were going to be physical and Foligno drew a total BS call hitting a player into the boards behind the offensive goal about 90 seconds into the game and we went down one-zip.  Then maybe 10 minutes later, another BS call on Foligno and another goal.  He chirped at the refs,  (here is where the tinfoil hat conspiracy comes in) the refs had it in for him and he got a call for looking at an opposing player the wrong way so he basically shut down to stay out of the box (as did the rest of the team) because we could not stop a power play, and a two goal deficit was insurmountable with our anemic offense.  The refs neutered him.

I kinda feel like the refs have something against him and if that were true, his greatest asset of having a big body and dishing it out in the playoffs is nullified, and therefore he has even less value to us than he should.

 

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[Dean]

Leadership?  I didn’t realize dead weight equals leadership. I’ve never understood why the brothers are considered great leaders. Because there dad played in nhl so that makes them leaders?  What has moose done to be a leader? Showing a new guy around a locker room? Can’t anyone do that? Or is it the fake fights he gets into. Maybe it’s the hissy fit at the refs in the playoffs. He isn’t a heavy weight or a middle weight . No one is afraid of him. He doesn’t protect teammates with his fake fights.  He acts entitled. Like he deserves to be a captain because his dad played.  I like him as a million dollar 4 th liner with no A on his chest.  Not an over paid dead weight . 
   The wild have 2 years to do something with Billy’s management.  They’re not getting out of the first round this year with all the dead weight on the roster. Next year we are paying 17 million to the maybe 10 th best player in nhl.  That makes total sense. The. We’re either going to way overpay Quinn or lose him for pennies on the dollar. I am fine with taking the chance ion Quinn but the money doesn’t add up next year. Billy is going to swing big this year and still be 2-3 players short of actually doing something in playoffs . Meanwhile he emptied the cupboards and over paid everyone. Thats a recipe for a winner ! 
 I quit watching  most of the season. I did get interested when Quinn came but the novelty has worn off . This team is mediocre perpetually and will always be with Billy’s leadership .  Krill is just not worth 17 million and it already shows . He’s already given in to the country club life in minny. Not the desire to win like Sid, mcdavid or McKinnon have.  The real 17 million dollar players. 

[Scalptrash]

He is vying for this year's Jojo award. The most overpaid, underperforming member of the team.