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As Wild slump reaches six games, Koivu sticks up for coach Yeo

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Remember yesterday when we wrote the Wild could really use a win? Well, they didn’t get one, falling 2-1 to St. Louis for their sixth consecutive loss.

Is it time for head coach Mike Yeo to go? Depends who you ask, but captain Mikko Koivu wasn’t willing to pin any of the team’s slump on the bench boss.

“It’s our job to play the game,” said Koivu, per the StarTribune. “It’s not systems, it’s not coaching. It’s on us. The system works. We have to be better. We didn’t change as players and a team in two, three weeks. We have it here. It’s a matter of how we execute. We can’t worry what’s going on around us. We’ve got to get better as a team, and we will.”

Koivu’s message was similar to the one general manager Chuck Fletcher gave recently, when he said: “If every time you have a five-game winning streak or a five-game losing streak you start to overreact either way, you’re going to be in trouble in this business.”

Still, it’s never a good sign for a coach when the local newspapers are listing his potential replacements.

Minnesota hosts Buffalo tomorrow and Washington Saturday.