Wild fans are fed up with their crappy team.

During last night?s game I got more and more frustrated as I watched the Wild get taken apart by the Chicago Blackhawks. Let?s be honest the Blackhawks are good but the Wild should be able to play with the Blackhawks and not get run out of their own building. While the Wild would probably still lose the game it should have been more close where they lose 2-1.

I don?t blame the fans for booing because the Wild because they suck; the Wild fans are paying a lot of money to watch a substandard mediocre team that won?t make the playoffs. You can mark it down folks the Wild don?t have the team to make it to the playoffs. If I had been at that game last night I would have been booing as well. The Wild better get used to the booing because I don?t see it changing. If the Wild keep losing there won't continue to be 18,568 screaming fans in the Xcel Energy center.

In a blog post linked below Doug Risebrough basically has told Michael Russo he has got nothing in the works to right the ship. Dig in folks grab a beer because it?s going to be long season miserable for the Minnesota Wild.

I put the blame for this on Wild's general manager Doug Risebrough for not putting a competitive team on the ice. I keep hearing how Risebrough didn?t want to trade the future of the Minnesota Wild away so they resigned Pierre-Marc Bouchard to a long term deal. How is that working out for you Doug? Bouchard has done nothing this season and has 2 assist in the last five games.

Even the most untrained hockey eye it is no mystery that the Wild have no offensive weapons outside of Miettinen-Koivu-Brunette line. The Wild have a roster full of 3rd and 4th line players. Most of these guys would probably have trouble scoring goals at the AHL level. Benoit Pouliot and James Sheppard have been complete and utter busts. If I was Doug Risebrough I would put these guys on waivers and then ship them Houston if they cleared waivers, or just cut them because they are dead weight. I just hope the Owners of the Minnesota Wild get smart and send both the GM and the Coach packing because it just isn?t working anymore. It is time to start over.

Uh-oh.

Entering one of their toughest stretches of the season, the Wild were a step slow much of the evening and twice were ushered off the ice by boos from the 18,568 home fans during a 4-1 loss to the Chicago Blackhawks on Sunday night at the Xcel Energy Center.

A red-faced Mikko Koivu, one of the few bright spots on a Minnesota team that was outshot 15-4 in the first period and 12-6 in the second, sided with the angry fans after the game by lambasting the effort of a few of his teammates.

"In front of this crowd," he said, tossing in a couple epithets, "that (ticks) me off," he said.

Of course, the opponent had plenty to do with the Wild's futility, swaggering into the X on an eight-game winning streak and sauntering out with its ninth in a row, a record for an NHL franchise that is 82 years old.

"It's a special achievement for the whole group," Hawks coach Joel Quenneville said. "They should be proud."

Said Wild coach Jacques Lemaire: "It's the best team right now. Everyone knows that. If you don't know it, you don't follow hockey and I don't think you should play."

Koivu agreed, to a degree.

"Give them credit," he said. "But they're not that good. They outworked us, that's obvious. We didn't play hard. You have to be ready for every game, and we weren't ready for tonight's game (click here to read the rest of the story)

Mike Russo also has a blog article that is pretty critical of the Wild.