Wild fall 4-2 to Bruins, fire coach Yeo after game

The Minnesota Wild lost yet Jack Eichel Jerseyanother game - and coach Mike Yeo lost his job. Yeo was fired after the free-falling Wild's 4-2 loss to the streaking Boston Bruins on Saturday. Owner Craig Leipold http://www.officialsabresteamshop.com/Womens_Youth_Jack_Eichel_Jersey confirmed the decision Saturday night in an email to The Associated Press, after Yeo told the Star Tribune of Minneapolis he'd been let go. General manager Chuck Fletcher said recently that Yeo's job was safe. ''I knew what he said the other day, and I'm a realist,'' Yeo said after the game and before the firing. ''You can't lose every game and expect to think that there's not going to be changes. I'm operating under the assumption that I'm going to be the coach tomorrow, and I know what I'm going to do, and it's going to be something different from what we've done.'' The Wild have lost seven in a row and 13 of 14. They tied the longest home winless streak http://www.officialsabresteamshop.com/Womens_Youth_Jack_Eichel_Jersey in franchise history at eight games (0-5-3). ''The message is pretty simple: I'm not freaking quitting here, and I'm not quitting on this group, and I'm going to show some fight,'' Yeo said about pulling goaltender Darcy Kuemper with a two-goal deficit late in the game. ''Again, I believe in the group, but they better start believing in each other, and they better start delivering.'' The 42-year-old Antoine Vermette JerseyYeo was 173-132-44 in five seasons with the Wilds. He was 11-17 in the playoffs. David Krejci broke a tie in the second period, 35 seconds after Minnesota scored, and backup goalie Gustavsson made 31 saves for the Bruins. Boston scoring leader Patrice Bergeron was held out with an undisclosed http://www.officialcoyotesproshop.com/Womens_Youth_Antoine_Vermette_Jerseyinjury and is considered day to day. Brad Marchand opened the scoring with a short-handed goal in the first, his 19th career short-handed goal and the most of any player since he entered the league in 2009-10. Marchand has scored in six straight games and has 12 goals in his last 12 games.