Bruce Boudreau can make the statements after each game how his team lacked the intensity needed at the beginning of each of the four games the Wild have played and how his team has been shown the tapes and they talk about it before every game. But the fact is Boudreau needs to step up and be held accountable for his own miscues.
- Dan Wallace
How a team in the first weeks of a new season can lack so much intensity is in and of itself an enigma. Boudreau must be the catalyst for that intensity instead of complaining about the lack there of...
Will really be interesting to see what kind of intensity this squad has when they're 15 points out of a playoff spot come February.
As you pointed out Dan, it's a bit early to get too overly critical of this club, but they have not looked all that good and the proverbial writing certainly appears to be scrawled on the wall with this group.
I think the true litmus test will be tonight against Smushville. If the Wild show up for all 3 periods they have a better than average chance to come away with points of some kind but they aren't going anywhere this season if they continue to take periods off.
