If the Minnesota Wild want to make a coaching change, it sounds like Mike Yeo won’t make it easy for them by stepping down.
“I’m not freaking quitting here,” Yeo said to reporters including the Minneapolis Star-Tribune’s Michael Russo.
It also sounds like Yeo realizes that Minnesota’s morbid losing streak - now at a worrisome eight games - may very well cost him his job.
Yeo on his job: "I’m a realist. You can’t lose every game and expect to think that there’s not going to be changes." #mnwild
— Michael Russo (@RussoHockey) February 13, 2016
The scene sounded pretty somber after today’s loss to the Boston Bruins, and not in your usual way.
Early exits for all #MNWild brass. GM Fletcher left his booth early, owner Leipold left suite in final seconds, Yeo quickly down the tunnel.
— Chad Graff (@ChadGraff) February 13, 2016
Yikes.
Firing Yeo would be a big step for the Wild, even more than usual, as he began his coaching stint in 2011. GM Chuck Fletcher was hired in 2009, so the two have been attached at the hip since then.
(And they got to know each other well in the Pittsburgh Penguins organization.)
Will one or both be gone, possibly in the near future? Even Yeo admits big changes can happen.
Wild players, meanwhile, just seem beaten down ... and maybe ambivalent about Yeo?
Parise: "not much to say anymore." #mnwild
— Michael Russo (@RussoHockey) February 13, 2016
Do the #MNWild need a change?
— Chad Graff (@ChadGraff) February 13, 2016
"It's not up to players," Zach Parise said. "It's not fair to ask any players that."