Hi, I’m going to write this entire blog like this. OK, I’ll stop.

I’m delusional, and feel like garbage, from all this travel, but I’m an “excuse grabber”, as Doug Risebrough calls it. Hey, I have a right to complain about travel. I fly commercial, and I’m a heckuva lot less paid.

Sooooooooooooo, I’ve got little for you today.

Chatted with Mark Parrish for awhile. He got his bell rung the other night by Jay McKee, but he’s been cleared to play and hopes to be in the lineup tonight. Parrish had dinner with a number of his old Wild mates last night.

Kurtis Foster and Craig Weller will be scratched. You’ve got to wonder when Foster’s going to reach his breaking point. This has got to be frustrating to work so hard to come back and still not get to play with Brent Burns injured.

Derek Boogaard and Colton Gillies came off early, but both won’t play unless there’s an unidentified illness. The Wild had an optional this morning. Andrew Brunette is expected to be in the lineup, although I don’t know how. He can barely walk.

Marian Gaborik skated hard this morning. He was last off the ice with Foster and Weller. I talked to him for a bit about his meeting with A-Rod, who had “Marian Gaborik surgery.” I’ll throw that stuff in tomorrow’s paper.

Coach Jacques Lemaire said he has no question in his mind the Wild will come out hard — much harder than in Colorado — tonight. He said the team is well aware of the importance of the game. Lose to Dallas, and it’s three points behind. Wild hasn’t won in Dallas since 2003.

I’m doing my notebook lead on the rest of my one-on-one with Risebrough yesterday. Wait ’til you read what he says about “five-goal scorers.”

OK, that’s it for now.

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