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St. Paul, Minn. • The Minnesota Wild lost yet another game — and coach Mike Yeo lost his job.
Yeo was fired after the free-falling Wild's 4-2 loss to the streaking Boston Bruins on Saturday.
Owner Craig Leipold confirmed the decision Saturday night in an email to The Associated Press, after Yeo told the Star Tribune of Minneapolis he'd been let go.
General manager Chuck Fletcher said recently that Yeo's job was safe.
"I knew what he said the other day, and I'm a realist," Yeo said after the game and before the firing. "You can't lose every game and expect to think that there's not going to be changes. I'm operating under the assumption that I'm going to be the coach tomorrow, and I know what I'm going to do, and it's going to be something different from what we've done."
The Wild have lost seven in a row and 13 of 14. They tied the longest home winless streak in franchise history at eight games (0-5-3).
"The message is pretty simple: I'm not freaking quitting here, and I'm not quitting on this group, and I'm going to show some fight," Yeo said about pulling goaltender Darcy Kuemper with a two-goal deficit late in the game. "Again, I believe in the group, but they better start believing in each other, and they better start delivering."
The 42-year-old Yeo was 173-132-44 in five seasons with the Wilds. He was 11-17 in the playoffs.
In the midst of their longest trip of the season, the Bruins are 13-3-3 in their last 19 road games.
The Wild are headed in the opposite direction. They haven't won at home since Dec. 28, the longest streak in franchise history since the team's first year of existence in 2001.
Minnesota was in playoff position at the end of December, holding the top Wild Card spot. The Wild have the league's worst record since the start of 2016 at 3-12-4 and have allowed at least four goals in seven of the past eight games.