TropicalFruitGirl26

Yep. A good goalie will ALWAYS create his own luck.

Do we really need ANY of them??

Working FOR the Wild, and hopefully, getting the Game 2 start no matter how this one ends up, is Gustavsson being calm, cool, and collected through all this. Guy isn't fighting the puck, isn't getting himself grossly out of position due to nerves or anything else, and still coming up with big saves as if he's done this a BUNCH of times before. That is the kind of goaltending this team hasn't seen in just about all its existence. Sometimes he screws up and lets one in that he would probably tell you himself he should have stopped, but I see no fear, quit, or sloppiness to his game. If the Wild as a team can't take cues from their 24 yr old netminder, then I dunno what to say about that...

Hate to say it, but Reaves, Foligno, or Middleton may have to be called upon to do some enforcing as the Stars now probably feel they are entitled to some extra shots on Wild players....particularly Dumba, but possibly Kap or Boldy.

WTF is going on over there? So, now since Dumba hit Pavelski into 2024, Marchment is allowed to surf board him? GTFO...

Zuccarello after seeing the Steel goal: "Where can I order one of those fancy goal thingies? I'll even pay for shipping...."

The Sam of Steel strikes again!! Tie score! That errant horn got HIS juices going!

This game has everything so far.... Rough play, big saves, quick PP strikes, monster hits, and even errant horns!

I am not gonna honestly celebrate a good player like Pavelski being injured, but if you are the Minnesota Wild, you pick WHATEVER momentum and swagger from what just happened, and get this game tied. If it were the other way around, I am sure the Stars wouldn't think twice about trying to score on a Wild team that lost one of their leaders to a monster hit.

Now the refs can earn their pay as they are gonna have to keep an eye on things. The slow simmer just turned into a bit of a boil, and things could overflow quicker than you can say "FU Stars for leaving Minnesota!"

4 on 4...best outcome Wild could have hoped for. And a Dallas player ended up with a 10 for starting that scrum. Hey, not gonna complain here!

Working against Minnesota here is the fact that the end result (a hurt Pavelski), may influence the severity of the call. Worst case, maybe a late hit, two minutes interference. Anything else, I think would be overkill against Dumba. It was NOT a head shot..

Shoulder to shoulder hit...quite clean....BUT, a tad late maybe? Hope the refs don't see it that way...

Holy %$#@.... Matt Dumba'ed Pavelski!

Oettinger has been unreal so far. Damn!

Back to the PP for Minnesota. And Sneaky Suter tried getting the UnJohnny to take a retaliatory penalty. Good on Gaudreau not biting on that.

Wow. Kap sets up Johansson with a cookie puck, and Johansson swings and misses more wildly than Byron Buxton going for a 5 run home run...

Refs take starring roles in this Game 1....they are making more calls than ever...Wild to the PP now. They almost need to score here to maintain some special teams dignity..

And somehow, only Foligno gets called out of all that......

This is where we see what the Wild really are made of. Do they shy away now because they got scored on quickly on the PP? Or do they just say, "eff it...let's keep playing the way we were and keep things physical". I vote option 2

Hate to say it, but Hartman needs to do better than that....guys head went right into the boards after that hit on the numbers. And the Wild pay for it...tie game...

Gotta LOVE those less-than-60-seconds left goals to end a period!

Just another day at the office for him...

One guy who should be HIGHLY motivated in this series is John Klingberg. I am sure he'd love to stick it to his old team. IF he can get in a game that is.... And as I finish this post, Minnesota to the PP...

Yea, he hasn't scored in so long, he might need a tutorial on how to light a lamp