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Risebrough out as Wild GM

Associated Press

Thursday, April 16, 2009

MINNEAPOLIS -- For 10 years, Doug Risebrough and Jacques Lemaire helped make the Minnesota Wild the model for stability in an unstable league. That has all changed in less than a week. Owner Craig Leipold fired Risebrough as general manager Thursday, five days after Lemaire resigned as coach. Now the team's two architects since its inception are gone and the franchise is starting over from scratch. "It just speaks to the importance of this decision," Leipold said in a teleconference. "I can't ...

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