Before getting into any kind of hockey talk, Hockey Wilderness wants to send its sincerest condolences to Bruce Boudreau and his family, as they mourn the loss of Bruce’s younger brother, Bryan. Bruce, your hockey family is behind you.
The Wild will go back to work this evening without their Head Coach behind the bench for the second game in a row, replaced by Boudreau’s Assistant Coach and long-time friend, John Anderson. Things didn’t go so well in Anderson’s first appearance filling in on Sunday in Colorado, where an Avs group that featured mostly NHL regulars smoked a mostly AHL-bound group of Wild players 5-1.