Jacques Lemaire was the master of the low-key one-liners, and one of his best all-time quips came early in the 2003-04 season. The Wild was struggling so bad on the power play that Lemaire memorably said, "When we started last year, our power play was really good. It was 23 percent. Now I don't know if we got enough to make milk. It's about 1 percent, half of one percent. It's very skim milk."
Mike Yeo's Wild squad entered Wednesday night in a similar funk: no power play goals in the 2016 calendar year, a span of nine games and 20 power play chances.
Zero percent. No milk again.
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name to remember Josh Gordon, the troubled but talented Browns WR, applied for reinstatement to the NFL after missing 2015.
