Minnesota Wild Fans Are Not Idiots

 Let’s start with one indisputable fact.  The Minnesota Wild played one of their very worst games of season in Winnipeg against the jets on Saturday December 30th.  Only Dallas was a bigger embarrassment.  What follows could explain, at least in part, what transpired during the game.  

Apparently, something untoward occurred in the Minnesota Wild locker room between the second and third periods of that Saturday game 

Filip Gustavsson started the game in goal.  He played the first two periods.  The Jets scored three goals in the first two periods.  None of those goals can be attributed to any ineptness by Gustavsson.  They were a direct result of inept Wild defense by not covering the slot in front of the net.  At the end of the second period Gustavsson skated off the ice unincumbered in any manner. He did not return to the bench during the third period. 

Marc-Andre Fleury replaced him at the start of the third period. When Fleury was asked by CBS sports about Gustavsson's sudden departure, Fleury responded by saying Gustavsson; "wasn't feeling great."  

John Hynes was asked in the post-game interview if there was anything he wanted say about Filip Gustavsson's  departure.  Hynes very curt response was; “No.”  He refused to talk about it using the time-honored Sargent Schultz and Donald Trump escape slogan of “I know Nothing.”   We can at least give Hynes credit for refusing to lie to us. 

Meanwhile, the company (Wild) line is that Gustavsson has a lower body injury and is day-to-day. 

No sports franchise will jeopardize the gate by airing their dirty linen in public.  While that may be admirable to a degree, sports fans get tired of being lied to and treated like the most naïve idiots on the planet. We get to the point with these organizations where we must beg the question; is there no way to skirt the truth without lying???  Who will ever forget the Minnesota Viking telling us in 2013 that we should NOT be concerned over any rumored departure of Percy Harvin.  They assured us he was NOT going anywhere. On March 11, 2013 Harvin was traded to the Seattle Seahawks.  

It would be refreshing if just once one of these public organizations stopped demanding we read between the lines and then attempting to insult us further when we refuse to do so.