“After every game, we look at our lines and we say what do we need to do going forward, and every game we’ll evaluate it. I’m not going to say he’s at his best right now. I’m not, for sure.

“But I also know that he’s capable of more, and I also know that we need him right now. It’s easy to say, ‘Let’s just take him out,’ but with who? Who do you put in instead? The easy thing to do is for us to just give up, but that’s not what we’re going to do. We’re going to keep trying to push him and keep trying to get him better and keep trying to work with him because we know what he’s capable of.”

-Mike Yeo, head coach of the Minnesota Wild on Dany Heatley. More on Heatley and the Wild from Michael Russo of the Star Tribune.