Season's finally over

After not making the playoffs for I don't know how many years in a row now, the Minnesota Wild fired coach Todd Richards.  It's not a surprising move considering he couldn't right the ship when we were in the middle of our dismal 8 game losing streak.  What's on tap for the next couple months?  Well, besides addressing the vacancy at the head coaching position, we need to overhaul the roster.  Being nearly at the salary cap with under performing players is unacceptable.  Rebuilding mode is no fun, but it's a necessary step in order to be competitive in the long run.  And Minnesota fans deserve a hockey team that can actually play as well as the top tier teams in the league (Detroit, Vancouver, Philadelphia, Washington, Tampa Bay, etc...).  Another need that must be addressed is finding a goal scorer.  You could say that Martin Havlat kind of fits that role, but only scoring, what, ~25 goals in a 81 game season is nothing to be proud of.  Marian Gaborik was the only true player we've ever had that could consistently net a goal every other game, and we let him go for nothing...

Okay, done with the hockey rant.  I only brought it up because yesterday was their last game of the season and wanted to express my disappointment with them.  I won't be doing the same with the Timberwolves.  They just seem to be, to put it lightly, 'un-fixable'.

Ugh...

Another Twins loss, and to make matters worse Tsuyoshi Nishioka fractured his fibula on a takeout slide from Nick Swisher.  The guy didn't even get to play a home game yet!  It's crappy because all of Minnesota wanted to see what he could bring to the table, and now we'll have to wait a few months...  So now I'm assuming we'll be calling up Luke Hughes from the minors and Matt Tolbert and him will be alternate to fill the void. 

In other news, urm, there's nothing else to say.  School is winding down and I've got orientation at my transfer college next Tuesday.  Should be exciting!...

Snow

I am aware that this is the state of Minnesota and that we get a fairly decent amount of snow each year, but this is just getting out of hand.  Just yesterday, all the snow in my yard had melted and it was finally starting to warm up.  Then overnight the snow rolls in and I wake to 5 inches of slop everywhere.  I guess it's still March and we're not into the clear until mid April...  Whatever, the driveway is shoveled and I have nothing else to do today besides maybe a bit of studying for my two tests next week.

SR...Out!