Video (01:36) : The Wild coach flipped his lid in today's practice
Minnesota Wild coach Mike Yeo was upset with his team during Wednesday morning's practice on the heels of Tuesday night's 4-3 overtime loss to San Jose at the X. He yelled at his team, left the ice in anger and had his assistants continue practice.
In addition, center Mikko Koivu and goalie Darcy Kuemper left the ice with injuries during the session. Defensemen Marco Scandella (unknown injury) and Nate Prosser (ill) were not practicing, and winger Zach Parise is absent to be with his father, J.P., who is in the late stages of lung cancer.
Here's a sampling of tweets from Wild beat writer Michael Russo, who watched practice and will write more later on startribune.com.
No Parise, Scandella or Prosser in #mnwild practice.
— Michael Russo (@Russostrib) January 7, 2015
Yeo has stopped practicing and laying into the team #mnwild
— Michael Russo (@Russostrib) January 7, 2015
Koivu just left ice hurt. Smashed stick in half twice as he left.He's been dealing with a lower body injury & seemed to aggravate it #mnwild
— Michael Russo (@Russostrib) January 7, 2015
Yeo now skating the heck out of the #mnwild without pucks #herbies
— Michael Russo (@Russostrib) 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 (@Russostrib) January 7, 2015
Yeo just stormed off the ice after slamming his stick against the glass #mnwild.
— Michael Russo (@Russostrib) January 7, 2015
#mnwild continuing practice without Yeo. Assistant GM Brent Flahr and director of hockey admin Shep Harder left stands when Yeo left ice
— Michael Russo (@Russostrib) January 7, 2015
Kuemper just left the ice sick or hurt it appears. #mnwild
— Michael Russo (@Russostrib) 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 (@Russostrib) January 7, 2015
Vanek on Yeo: I think it was good and maybe needed. There's only so much you can say before you snap #mnwild
— Michael Russo (@Russostrib) January 7, 2015
Brodziak on Yeo: it was deserving. The group wasn't ready #mnwild
— Michael Russo (@Russostrib) January 7, 2015
Zucker on Yeo: it just shows he's passionate about this group and we're not living up to that. He's has every right to be upset #mnwild
— Michael Russo (@Russostrib) January 7, 2015
Zucker on Yeo: I know I still (believe in Yeo) and I guarantee I speak for every guy in this room. The system works. We've seen it work
— Michael Russo (@Russostrib) January 7, 2015
Backstrom on #mnwild finger pointing:when things aren't going well,it's easy to look left,right.Jacques Lemaire always said look at yourself
— Michael Russo (@Russostrib) January 7, 2015
Yeo simply said #mnwild wasn't good enough in practice and he reacted
— Michael Russo (@Russostrib) January 7, 2015
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