Wild fire coach Mike Yeo, following 8th straight loss

The Wild lost 4-2 at home to Boston Bruins to match the franchise’s longest home winless streak at eight.

He held a news conference following the loss and was sacked shortly after that.

Fletcher, the general manager, has hired and fired two coaches since owner Craig Leipold brought him aboard in 2008.

The Wild have dropped eight home games in a row over the past six weeks.

“I’m a realist. You can’t lose every game and expect to think that there’s not going to be changes”, Yeo said after Saturday’s game, but he added that he fully expected to be the coach on Sunday.

“Yeah, I don’t know what’s going on there”. The clever Swede, who could be playing his final games with the B’s before the February 29 trade deadline, made a move to his backhand to slide it through Darcy Keumper’s pads. “Very disappointed with that game”. Stepping in as interim head coach will be John Torchetti, who has been behind the bench for the Iowa Wild, the American Hockey League affiliate for Minnesota.

Now it’s up to 51-year old Torchetti to try and light a fire under this team. Weather watchers predict cloudy skies and temperatures in the high 30s or low 40s next Sunday when the Wild host the Chicago Blackhawks at TCF Bank Stadium in Minneapolis….

Devils 2, Flyers 1: Adam Henrique scored a power-play goal 2 minutes, 58 seconds into overtime to lift New Jersey. “So he’s much more familiar with our team than anyone on the outside would have been”, said Fletcher of Torchetti. The Bruins are second in the National Hockey League with 39 road points.

Vasilevskiy is 8-5-0 with 2.73 goals-against average and a. 910 save percentage in 15 games with the Lightning this season.

Nestrasil had two goals for the second time in a four games, and has five goals during that stretch. Is Torchetti going to mix up his lines, or is he going to stick with the units we’ve seen. No. I could’ve not pulled the goalie, but the message is pretty simple – I’m not freaking quitting here.

“I’m going to push them”, said Torchetti, “and push them harder”. The Wild were doing fine until roughly game 40. To give them the plays and game plan to win?

The Bruins were without their best player, Patrice Bergeron, and Jonas Gustavsson was getting his first start since leaving a January26 game with a heart ailment.

They’ve been the recipients of some bad luck, to be sure, but things haven’t shifted fast enough.