Wild's Faber: Beatdown vs. Sens 'not even close to who we are'

Brock Faber gave the Minnesota Wild an earful after their 6-0 beatdown at the hands of the Ottawa Senators on Saturday night.

"Unacceptable, start to finish," the defenseman said. "We're better than that, we have more pride than that. That was embarrassing, start to finish, from all of us - myself included."

He added, "No forecheck, they were working all of us in the corners, outworking us, they out-detailed us and they built a lead and kept building. ... Not even close to who we are as a team and individuals."

Faber wasn't alone in his assessment of the team. Wild forward Mats Zuccarello summed up the performance in four words.

"Embarrassing, outworked, out-skilled, terrible," he said.

The Wild were already down 3-0 before the midway mark of the game, but things only got worse from there. Minnesota forward Ryan Hartman was assessed a match penalty after driving Senators star Tim Stutzle's head into the ice at the end of the second period.

The Senators scored three power-play goals in the first three minutes of the final frame, with the last one coming on a two-man advantage.

Though the penalty trouble didn't help, Zuccarello figured the game was already out of hand by that point. The Senators outshot the Wild 35-12 through the first two periods.

"I haven't seen us like this in a while, so this is not good enough and hopefully it was a one-off," he said.

Zuccarello added, "We've got to expect more from each other, all of us."

Goaltender Filip Gustavsson was the one bright spot for Minnesota, making 46 saves on 52 shots, and Marcus Foligno wasn't pleased that his team left the netminder high and dry.

"He played so well and he's been doing such a good job this year. ... It's frustrating that we can't do it for him on a nightly basis," the veteran forward said. "We've got to be better for him and we'll regroup."

Minnesota had won three straight games before Saturday's letdown. The Wild will attempt to rebound Tuesday against the Boston Bruins, but they'll likely have to do it without Hartman, whose actions against Stutzle are set to be reviewed by the league.

"The (Hartman) thing, I don't know. It's a frustrating game, we've got blood flowing," Foligno said of the incident. "It is what it is. ... We've gotta be smarter, I think we just kinda got into that game and it hurt us."

Minnesota occupies the third spot in the Central Division with a 31-18-4 record.