Article: lemaire's last stand?(Sports)

By Dave Campbell

The Associated Press

St. Paul, Minn.

Last summer, the Minnesota Wild talked Jacques Lemaire into returning as coach. This time, they might have to be more persuasive.

This has been a trying winter and spring for Lemaire and the Wild, who entered the final weekend of the regular season with a faint hope of reaching the playoffs but haven't put together a three-game winning streak since Thanksgiving.

They've been hampered by injuries , slow development of recent first-round draft picks and persistent inconsistency that frustrates the discipline-driven coach like no other flaw.

Not only is the future of ...

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