Honestly, it’s getting harder and harder to believe that Paul Fenton isn’t about to blow this hard-to-watch team into smithereens by Monday’s trade deadline.



In a winless four-game homestand, the Wild followed up blowing two- and three-goal leads with consecutive shutout losses and 156 minutes of scoreless hockey.



The latest — a 4-0 defeat to Bruce Boudreau’s old Anaheim Ducks with, what had to be hard for him to stomach, his old boss, Bob Murray, on the opposite bench — ended with three goals in the final 5:44 of play, slumped heads of solemn Wild players dragging themselves off “Our Ice” with a 16th loss in the past 24 home games and Zach Parise personifying it all by sitting on the bench after the final horn and staring straight ahead seemingly in a daze as what was left of another full Xcel Energy Center house departed unsatisfied.



In the postgame locker room, Jason Zucker and Ryan Suter bemoaned the fact...