ST. PAUL, Minn — It took until the Minnesota Wild’s rookie party last week for teammates to figure out something Brock Faber isn’t good at.
The team stayed at the posh Pelican Hill resort on the Southern California coast for their off day. At night, they had dinner together, with the rookies asked to tell a joke, do a skit or chirp a veteran. Pretty standard stuff. Jacob Lucchini had teammates cracking up for ripping alternate captain Marcus Foligno. Adam Beckman stole the show by dressing up as a waiter — suit coat and bow tie — for his brief monologue.
The Minnesota Wild fired coach Dean Evason and assistant Bob Woods on Monday amid a disappointing start and a seven-game losing streak.
The Wild later announced that former Nashville Predators and New Jersey Devils coach John Hynes will become the seventh head coach in franchise history.
The Wild made the playoffs in each of Evason’s first three full seasons in Minnesota, topping 100 points the past two seasons, though he never got out of the first round.
The firing came after the Wild got off a 5-10-4 record this season. They are on an 0-5-2 slide, including failing to pick up a win in Sweden.
The Wild are hampered in what they can do to turn around the team because they have more than $14 million in dead cap space from the 2021 buyouts of Zach Parise and Ryan Suter.Latest Minnesota Wild news, schedule, roster, stats, injury updates and more.
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