Adversity fuels Yeo's determination for Wild

The Star Tribune reflects on how close it appeared Minnesota Wild head coach Mike Yeo and his staff may have come to losing their jobs earlier in the season, but he and they stuck by their guns and pulled the team out of a losing skid.

Yeo reflected on that time this week.

“When you really care about something and there is a chance you could lose it, of course it’s hard,” Yeo said. “I know that it’s part of the job. I signed up for that and I accept that. I know I’d be OK, but when you go back home and you’re looking at your kids and they love it here so much and this has been more of a home to them than anywhere, that’s really hard.

“But honestly, it was like the harder things got, the more determined I got. It was also fuel for me. To me, this was part of the experience of growing as a coach that I hadn’t gone through yet that I knew I had to go through.”

Source: Michael Russo, Star Tribune