from Michael Russo of the Star Tribune,

If that 7-1 loss in Dallas 10 days ago was “rock bottom,” what was Tuesday’s 7-2 beatdown to the Penguins?

The scene inside the Wild locker room after a 26-minute player-only meeting included skates angrily being slammed into equipment bags, more words like “embarrassing” and Zach Parise, still in his skates, staring at the carpet despondently holding a rolled-up ball of hockey tape.

“I feel like we’ve been asked [how do we get out of this] for the last three weeks now. We’re not getting out of it,” a perturbed Parise bristled minutes before.

“We’re so easy to play against. We lose battles, we don’t bump off draws, the details of our game are terrible.

“We don’t even make it hard on the other team. They tic-tac-toe right around us.”

Yup, same old, same old.

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