from Michael Russo of Russo's Rants,

The Wild’s a depressed, broken, absolutely lost team right now, and I have no clue how the Wild fixes this.

It’s sloppy, has forgotten how to play defense, how to compete for anything remotely close to 60 minutes. It’s lethargic and outskated, outplayed and outworked in almost every single game.

Other than that, things are just peachy right now as the NHL’s most disappointing team rolled into the halfway mark with 41 points and an 11^th loss in 13 games, a 5^th straight loss and 16^th loss in the past 23.

Please check out the game story as well on www.startribune.com/wild, but a down-and-out Ryan Suter actually apologized to the scribes for his despondent, glum quotes after tonight’s 4-1 loss to the Blackhawks.

“When it rains it pours, and it’s pouring,” said Suter, who said he didn’t know what to say anymore after losses.

When I asked if this team was in a full-scale crisis, he said, “It is. It’s not good. It’s not fun to be a part of. It’s not fun to play. I don’t know what’s going on....

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