These guys like Mike Milbury blaming the victims and talking about current NHLers needing to sack up and take their medicine ought to strap skates on and go out for a head-hunting session with Willie Mitchell or Andrew Ladd. I’d like to see what they think about “getting their bell rung.”

I’ve been seriously concussed. It’s not something I’d wish on anyone, head down or not. I could run down a list of fun post-concussion symptoms I experience every day that would put the fear of God in these d-bags.

That hit? That guy should be done with hockey. Period. That was vicious and unnecessary. I love hockey, but nobody should die for it.

Also, I assumed the Wilds’ symbol was a bear, but a bear with some vague feline-esque quality. A bearcat, if you will. (And even if you won’t.)

And Weeks’ on the NHL Network … yeah, he still seems a little stiff. Not bad, but not comfortable, and certainly not as loosy goosey as some Canadian commentators – and I wish I could remember their names, but I honestly don’t – who once got so bored during a boring hockey game they started talking about which athletes were the “wimpiest”. (They decided baseball players.)

Minnesota Wild Logo:
A Bear’s head with a sun setting over a forest, with a river winding through at it’s mouth, making the eye is the North Star, in tribute to Minnesota’s original NHL team.”

I would say it’s because we are the North Star State. We don’t like to think about the Norman Green and Yellow.

And for the record, the name should have been “Brotens,” not “Wild.”

Minnesota Wild Logo:
A Bear’s head with a sun setting over a forest, with a river winding through at it’s mouth, making the eye is the North Star, in tribute to Minnesota’s original NHL team.