from Michael Russo of Russo's Rants,

When Charlie Coyle scored his first goal in two months to tie Tuesday’s game against the Philadelphia Flyers in the second period, it looked like Dec. 23 would really provide a Festivus Miracle.

Nope.

Instead, Wild fans got to play the part of George Costanza and air their grievances with loud boos and social media condemnation after their favorite team inexplicably sputtered through yet another loss that featured a slow, sloppy start, soft wall play, lots of turnovers, lots of overpassing and shoddy defense by some of the team’s more reliable players....

What have the Wild lacked during a four-game winless streak, 5-6-3 slide and an amazingly bad 2-3-3 home streak that has the team six points behind the defending Cup champs for eighth and eight points behind Winnipeg heading into a mammoth home-and-home against the Jets?

“Winners attitude and teamwork,” coach Mike Yeo said.

Lots of tension after this one. It included a second straight, brief players’ only meeting and more frustration-filled quotes from Zach Parise, Mikko Koivu and Matt Cooke, who had a lot of interesting things to say.

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