Minnesota Wild head coach Mike Yeo blew a gasket and stormed off the ice early at Wednesday’s morning skate, frustrations from a stretch of losing apparently boiling over when players weren’t practicing to his liking.
KSTP captured video of Yeo cursing out his team just moments after making them skate a quick sprint.
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“We weren’t good enough and we’re not in a position where we can come in and be, let alone decent in practice, bad in practice,” Yeo said after practice, according to Wild.com. “I’m not going to accept that.”
“I think I made my point,” Yeo added.
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“I think Yeozie lost it here,” Thomas Vanek told the Star Tribune. “He’s been pretty good with us, staying upbeat. We played well last night. It’s not good when you lose a hockey game. That was his message. He didn’t like how some of us practiced and came out, so those things happen.”
The Wild have lost eight of its past ten games, including a 4-3 overtime loss to the San Jose Sharks Tuesday night.
Here’s a timeline of tweets that reporters covering the practice sent out during the meltdown.
Sounds like Minnesota is having the most memorable practice in recent memory.
— Josh Yohe (@JoshYohe_PGH) January 7, 2015
Yeo is going nuts in practice. Just slammed his stick in the middle of a scrum; screaming his head off. #mnwild
— Michael Russo (@RussoHockey) January 7, 2015
Mikko Koivu slammed his stick against the boards in and went down the tunnel with an apparent injury. #MNWild
— Chad Graff (@ChadGraff) January 7, 2015
Yeo just stormed off the ice after slamming his stick against the glass #mnwild.
— Michael Russo (@RussoHockey) January 7, 2015
Yeo stormed off the ice at practice. Halted it twice to yell at #mnwild for sloppy play and make them skate. pic.twitter.com/H9q7nPWuxk
— Chad Graff (@ChadGraff) January 7, 2015
At the X. Been around Mike Yeo enough the last 3+ years, and never seen him this pissed off. Just stormed off the ice. #mnwild
— Darren Wolfson (@DWolfsonKSTP) January 7, 2015
Now Darcy Kuemper has left the ice at #MNWild practice with an apparent injury.
— Chad Graff (@ChadGraff) January 7, 2015
Assistant coach Rick Wilson having one on ones with veterans now like Matt Cooke and Thomas Vanek. Asst coaches running practice #mnwild
— Michael Russo (@RussoHockey) January 7, 2015
