Article: Mental lapses behind slide; Jacques Lemaire implores his team to return to its system.(SPORTS)

Byline: Tom Jones; Staff Writer

Usually, when Wild coach Jacques Lemaire reviews the videotape of a rotten game, it's not as bad as he originally thought.

But when Lemaire critiqued Wednesday night's 2-1 dud against Columbus, it turned out to be worse.

"I was fine before looking at it," Lemaire said. "After? Well, I should be saying `during,' I wasn't feeling so good."

Lemaire was so steamed Thursday that he canceled practice and had a chalk-talk session with the Wild - loser of three consecutive games - complete with the video of Wednesday's game.

No one is excused from Lemaire's wrath these days.

"It's a collective thing," Lemaire said.

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