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Article: wild shakeup: risebrough fired; Wafer-thin skin, rhetoric get boot.(SPORTS)(PATRICK REUSSE)

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April 17, 2009
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Byline: PATRICK REUSSE; STAFF WRITER

Owner Craig Leipold said Thursday that he had decided a month before season's end to get rid of Doug Risebrough as the Wild's president and general manager. Any second thoughts on the subject must have been taken care of during Monday's news conference, which formally announced the departure of coach Jacques Lemaire.

Lemaire's revelation that he was gone came minutes after the Wild concluded a non-playoff season on Saturday night in Columbus, Ohio.

This gave Risebrough 36 hours before Monday's media session to reflect on the season. This is what he came up with:

"One of the things I regret as a ...

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