Before this season started, most assumed the Minnesota Wild would be at least the third team from the Central Division to make the Stanley Cup Playoffs in the spring. However, after losing seven straight games, the Wild have fewer regulations wins (5) than the Blackhawks and sit🍒 just two points ahead of Chicago in the standings.
It’s bad. And bad usually means someone’s seat is hot.
In the case of the Wild, the axe fell on ♍Monday evening. Head coach Dean Evason and assistant coach Bob Woods were fired by Minnesot🍬a tonight. According to a number of , former Devils and Predators head coach John Hynes will replace Evason.
Hynes, 48, spent parts five seasons as the head coach of the New Jersey Devils (2015-19) and then parts of four behind the bꦕench in Nashville (2019-23); he left New Jersey and took over in Nashville during the 2019-20 𒊎season.
The Wild are curre🧔ntly 5-10-4 and have a minus-20 goal diffe𒅌rential.
