[nmhen]

Originally Posted by thefoss1957

Certainly this series isn't over...but, I find it unbelievable how optimistic the St. Paul Pioneer press columnists are, with headlines like: "Down 2-0, Minnesota Wild in their sweet spot" http://www.twincities.com/wild/ci_28...ota-wild-their

I like Chad Graff (the Pioneer Press Wild beat writer). He's a nice kid. But Mike Russo at the Minneapolis Star-Tribune is the authority on the Wild in town.

I don't care for any of the columnists at the Pio, and the only columnist at the Star-Tribune I like is Souhan - and I've really only started to read him this year when he started doing podcasts with Russo - and seemed much more personable and interesting because of them.

Minnesotans are an odd breed of sports fan. Annoyingly quick to pull the ripcord on a game or season - which is a result of all the losing. But with a sneaky homer streak that comes out of nowhere sometimes. Especially when it comes to hockey. It's regarded as this birth right that you are automatically the smartest hockey fans in America if you're born there. That might even be true, on average. But I'm not about to try to quantify it, and who the hell really cares? Every Minnesota-born player who doesn't play for the Wild is automatically better than the non-Minnesota players who do. And we should go out and acquire all of them. And we should be able to trade Matt Cooke for Kyle Okposo, and the Isles should probably also give us their next three first rounders as interest paid for stealing away One Of Us for a few years. It's crazy.