Mike Yeo approached the podium to address the media Saturday night after the Minnesota Wild's sixth loss in seven games, and figured he knew what was coming: an onslaught of questions comparing the Wild's current early-season slide to previous ones.
He spoke without being asked a question.
"Might as well just take some of my quotes from last year at this time and use those," Yeo said.
Coming off a 4-3 overtime loss to Dallas on home ice Saturday night -- a game Minnesota led 3-0 in the third period -- the Wild prepare to flip the calendar to December on another losing skid, not unlike the one that buried them in the standings a year ago -- or the one a year before that.