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Was Minnesota Wild coach Mike Yeo too good to be true?

Found February 13, 2012 on centericechat.com: Yardbarker Blogger Network
PLAYERS: Niklas Backstrom,  Josh Harding
TEAMS: Minnesota Wild

Mike Yeo was delivered to the State of Hockey as a breath of fresh air. Mike Yeo, shown in this file photo before the season, is looking to get back on track and lead the Wild to a playoff spot. His players’ coach approach and tool box of young talent were just two of the talking points in the preseason to tout Yeo as a success story. That held to be true for the first couple of months. Five wins in the last 24 games. That’s the cloud hanging over the first-year coach. From Fox Sports North: “We need wins, for sure,” Yeo said Monday. “I would say that, I’m guessing at a minimum, we need about 18 of them. And that will get us to 94 points right now. With what we have, 27 games left, that puts us at a clip of winning about six of every nine games, which I think is very doable for us. I think we have a favorable schedule. I think the schedule combined with the fact that the teams we want to get ahead of, we have a chance to play them all. So I thin...
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