Vancouver Canucks head coach Willie Desjardins stepped to the podium after another demoralizing home loss and pointed the finger at himself.
On the heels of Saturday's humiliating 5-2 defeat to the lowly Toronto Maple Leafs, the Canucks talked about needing to be a whole lot better on Monday against the Minnesota Wild.
It didn't happen.
With interim head coach John Torchetti behind the bench for his first game since the Wild fired Mike Yeo, Minnesota nearly ran Vancouver out of Rogers Arena over the first 22 minutes, leading 3-1 on the scoreboard and 19-4 on the shot clock in what would end up as a 5-2 final.