Six games into a miserable start to their season, the Wild are proving to be an aging, plodding, aggravating-to-watch team and one that’s finding itself outmatched just long enough in games against younger, faster, more skilled teams that they’re unable to overcome the spurts of ineptitude that have occurred in every game except versus bottom-dwelling Ottawa.

-Michael Russo of The Athletic after the Minnesota Wild lost 4-2 to the Toronto Maple Leafs. Russo has more (paid) on the state of the Wild.