Bruce Boudreau was irked that only one member of an nhl.com panel predicted the Wild will make the playoffs this season.
Bruce Boudreau miffed about preseason disrespect for Wild from hockey experts
By Star Tribune
October 4, 2018 at 11:36AM
The website released the picks of 18 contributors Sunday. The only one to include the Wild was staff writer Tom Gulitti, who predicted the Wild would be the second Western Conference wild-card team.
"I use it for motivation,'' Boudreau said. "I don't know if the players really care what they think. I've always been a guy that if you tell me I can't do something, I want to do it.''
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