Coach Todd Richards positively upbeat in postseason assessment of Minnesota Wild

truebluefan · Apr 18, 2010

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Some people need to do a better job for the Wild next season, coach Todd Richards says, and one of those is Todd Richards.

"My job is to get the team to play to its potential," he said Tuesday. "That's my job, to get these guys to perform at the highest level. Some guys did it — not consistently through the year; I think we went in spurts."

After his team finished with a 38-37-7 record in his first season as a head coach in the NHL, Richards showed he's a "glass half full" kind of guy by pointing out positives all over the ice. Yes, he said, the season proved a major disappointment because the Wild failed to make the playoffs this season, but "the whole season wasn't a complete disappointment."

The Wild "didn't play great down the stretch; we didn't start well, so our bookends aren't very good," he noted, "but I think if you look at our December and January when we were playing pretty good, we were a tough team to play against and a fun team to watch. That's the point we have to get to, but it's got to be on a consistent basis."
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