Playing the right way: Mike Yeo, time on ice, and deploying quality players

Brace Hemmelgarn-USA TODAY SportsIt's been two and a half weeks since Mike Yeo's tenure with the Wild ended. In that time, we've used up a lot of word exploring what went wrong, what Yeo meant to the team, and where the Wild go from here. Across the blogosphere and throughout social media, the takes on Yeo's firing have been mostly well-reasoned, but have often lacked the impact of evidence.

Why does it matter if we don't back our claims up with evidence? Well, one of the biggest complaints about Yeo leading up to his firing was that he valued the wrong types of play and did a poor job deploying his roster. And, as much as we like to trust only our eyes to tell us what's going on, our eyes…