Greetings, most excellent of readers, I'm your host for tonight's shindig, J.J. from Kansas (esquire). With me as always is a group of degenerate .gif monkeys who have loved watching the Wild fall to the most heinous of depths in the standings after a truly "Yes way!" start to the season.

In bogus news for the Wild, their starting goaltender Niklas Backstrom was injured last night in the Wild's unfortunate and odious loss to the Montreal Canadiens. Of course, they have noted Red Wings-killer Josh Harding, who is most bodacious between the pipes against the warriors of the Winged Wheel.

Be excellent to each other and let's go Red Wings.