Now, Paul Fenton officially knows what it’s like to be the Wild’s GM.



Sure, along the way, there have been plenty of cool milestones in his first eight months on the job.



There was that initial news conference in front of his proud family in May. There was conducting his first draft and free-agent period a month later. And of course, there’s always satisfaction when experiencing your first victory and pulling off your first series of trades.



But you’re really not the Wild GM until you want to throw a couple chairs, break a couple TVs and wonder how the $#&%!!!! your team can stroll into tough buildings in Winnipeg, Toronto and Vegas and win so darn convincingly only to lay giant eggs against bottom dwellers like Detroit and Philly and free-falling teams like Anaheim.



You’re really not the Wild GM until you endure your first all-out, full-scale, four-alarm Minnesota Wild-style swoon™, you know like the one where...