from Michael Russo and Joe Smith of The Athletic,

It had been a brutal start to the Minnesota Wild’s season, but it all came to a boiling point for president of hockey operations and general manager Bill Guerin as he watched the roster he assembled humiliate itself on home ice a week ago.

It’s one thing to lose 8-3 to a division rival, but not competing, giving up a franchise-record five power-play goals and cratering so deeply to the Dallas Stars caused Guerin to call the team together Monday morning, hours before the Wild departed for Stockholm.

Guerin let everybody have it — both as a team and individually, where it especially hurt.

“Was it a scream-fest? Bit of both.” Marcus Foligno told The Athletic. “The one thing about Billy, when he talks, everyone respects the s— out of him. That guy talks, you’re gonna really, really listen.”

“It was kind of a kick in the ass, figure our s— out kind of meeting,” Ryan Hartman added. “Something we definitely needed.”

Guerin voiced to his players — and his coaches — exactly what he voiced to The Athletic shortly before Sunday’s 4-3 overtime loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs in their second and final game of the Global Series, which is the Wild’s fifth straight defeat and 11th in the past 14 games: “I’m not happy. I’m not happy with where we are.”

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