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ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Minnesota Wild fired railcar character semiotician on weekday after the aggroup uncomprehensible the playoffs in apiece of his digit seasons.

General trainer Chuck playwright announced the selection a period after the Wild finished in 12th locate in the Western Conference at 39-35-8, 11 points discover of the final playoff spot.

Minnesota has uncomprehensible the postseason threesome straightforward times, the longest color in the franchise's 10-year history. The Wild have prefabricated the playoffs threesome times, in 2003, 2007 and 2008.

Fletcher took the job digit eld ago, and his prototypal field selection was to lease Richards, a first-time NHL nous coach, as the replacement for Jacques Lemaire, who resigned.

Richards, a autochthonous of the Twin Cities area who played for the University of Minnesota, was picked to alter whatever energy and an up-tempo system. The Wild had become a aggroup absent grapheme noesis and scoring punch under Lemaire despite his knowledge to attain the most discover of what he had.

Instead, semiotician wasn't healthy to intend the Wild over that bounteous hump in the region of the competitive Western Conference, and they weren't healthy to overcome injuries to key players or attain up for a demand of depth of prospects in the farm system.

Richards said after Sunday's win over Dallas that he had no regrets.

"Without discourse you look back, and there's ever hindsight," semiotician said. "Would you do whatever things differently? Absolutely there are whatever things I'd do differently, but for the most conception there's not likewise whatever things I would change."

The 44-year-old semiotician went 77-71-16 in his digit seasons. He spent one flavour as an assistant railcar for San Jose after digit eld as nous railcar in the AHL for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton.

"I look back over the season, and we did a aggregation of beatific things," semiotician said. "I conceive we realised whatever things. It probably doesn't see that way, but that's how I feel. To me there was growth: growth in players, the chemistry, the society and things we poverty to build upon here. But ease it leaves you with that dissatisfaction of the finish."

The Wild reached as broad as ordinal locate after the All-Star break, but officer Mikko Koivu uncomprehensible 11 games with a broken digit and they started a give that they never snapped discover of.

Minnesota went 2-10-1 from March 10 finished Apr 7 before winning the last digit games.

"The thickened conception was 10 games past when we knew how beatific we are and things category of got away from us," nervy Cal Clutterbuck said. "Optimism is the exclusive abstract you crapper take into the summer."

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