Noon Numbers for 5-10-2013: 1 & -18

1 & -18.

That's really bad. It's abysmal. You're not going to win any series with your three best players producing that little.

From what I've gathered from teh interwebz and local media, a lot of blame is being put on Koivu. I'm fine with Koivu getting blame for this, because his lack of production was a large part of the Wild's series loss. But if you're going to use this series to argue that Koivu should hand the "C" to either Suter or Parise, please be reminded that Suter, for all his ice time, and Parise, for all his shots, were also no-shows this postseason.

I don't question the ability of those three players. I don't question whether they're worth the investment that the team's put into them. I don't question that they've the ability to be part of the core of a contending NHL team, if not a Cup winner.

But to accomplish that, they've got to show up next postseason, in a much, much more impactful sense than was demonstrated over these last five games.