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Brad Ratgen: I Hate the Wild, I Hate the Wild, I Hate the Wild!!!!!!

Found February 08, 2013 on HockeyBuzz:
PLAYERS: Zach Parise,  Ryan Suter
TEAMS: Minnesota Wild
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Ok, not really. But, I thought it would only be fair since I was Canuck bashing yesterday. And, I have had it with this team already!!!! Brutal, brutal, brutal performance last night. I feel bad for Setoguchi. He couldn't buy a goal if Zach Parise and Ryan Suter were bank rolling it for him. And then, reading the comments after the game. Every so often, a reader is reading my mind in his...
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