Alexandron

Just 1 point for us out of this game. Next game tomorrow will be even more difficult against high scoring Leafs. I think that game was 2nd best game for Gustavsson this season. His 1st game was a shutout 2:0 against Panthers when he stopped 41 shots out of 41.

SO comes next.

1 point at least for us after 60 min.! Slight progress for the team. Just only one goal allowed in our net in regulation.

No words. A cardiac game for me so far.

Hope , we will get at least 1 point from this game. So far Gustavsson is pretty good for this game. One goal in 2 periods is not bad.

Thanks. I tried that. It took a while to download and scan PC for 2 periods. It did find those viruses through that program. I am listening on a radio this game now. Which is 1:1 now.

Yes. It is not safe at all. I think this new virus affecting google chrome browser. I am using now microsoft edge.

I think I have got a viruses. It shows nonremid.com. According to google it developed on internet 10 days ago. My malware bites programm does not show them. Now is impossible to use a computer.

How safe is it? What browser are you using? Because google shows now that 5 files are infected.

Hope we will compete well in Sweden and will be able to win this game. Predicting our win with a score 4:3 in OT(or SO).

They were able to beat a good St Louis team yesterday with a score 5:1. Kunin had 1 goal and 1 assist; Sturm had 1 assist; Kahkonen stopped 44 shots out of 45. I think he stole that game from Blues. Out 5 former Wild players for that team the most progressed is Nico Sturm who is Stanley Cup winner with Avalanche team in 2022(played 13 playoffs games then) and a silver medal winner with Germany team this 2023 year at World Championship. He recorded 6 goals and 2 assists in 10 played games there.

I just looked for more stats of 3 best NHL goalies. Martin Brodeur played 1266 games in 22 seasons. He had 691 wins during that period. Patrick Roy played 1029 games in 19 seasons. He had 551 wins during that period. Marc-Andre Fleury played 994 games in 20 seasons. He has so far 547 wins during that period. All I want from the Wild team this season to help Marc-Andre Fleury to reach 1000 games and to pass 551 wins record before the New Year. We need just 5 wins for him. This way we will be a part of historical NHL record as well as the Wild club record. Regarding our playoffs participation is still a questionable part for me this season. We need a better chemistry to build in. As well as for the farm club too.

Fleury is a Hall of Fame player. 6 more games to reach 1000 NHL games mark and 5 more wins to pass Patrick Roy record to be 2nd goalie in NHL history in wins. I would see your record in his age.

Maybe Kaprizov needs a longer stick like Zuccarello has? But regarding points so far for that line Kaprizov-Hartman-Zuccarello they are better than any other lines. In 15 played games Zuccarelo has 16 points; Kaprizov has 15 points; Hartman has 11 points for offensive part. But for the defensive part they do have the problem or our entire defense is not as good. Kaprizov +/- -11; Zuccarello +/- -7; Hartman +/- -4. Kulikov played actually not last season, but season before. He played only 2 playoffs games out of 7 games against Vegas and had 1 assist; +/- +2 in those games. Maybe if he would played all 7 games then maybe he would have a better impact to our team's result. But we had Dumba too at that time... An interesting fact for this thread. In a last day and a half we had almost 200 views already. It seems our fans and media really worry what is going on with our team. We practically have the same team as last season. We traded Greenway, Reaves, Steel,Dumba and added Maroon, Bogosian, Faber, Rossi.

I was thinking about this too or maybe there were a combined duo (GM and Head Coach) decisions. And probably, also was a duo decision to try 5 forwards at PP too. Unusual decision, but at least they tried.

Hope we will get 4 points out of this trip. Johansson predicted. . Boldy had pretty nice chemistry with Johansson and EEK at the end of the last season, but I would keep Rossi in that line with Boldy and Johansson , because EEK could play well in a powerful line with Foligno and Maroon. It seems Kaprizov was hurt last game against Dallas when he produced only one shot during that game. According to Russo at his X-twit: Michael Russo @RussoHockey "Kirill Kaprizov’s health suddenly a concern as sinking Wild head to Sweden".

You made pretty good points. Building a strong chemistry was our problem since Yeo days or even before that time. One our line (Kaprizov-Hartman-Zuccarello) is still has a nice chemistry, but the other 3 are not. Regarding our coach I have a controversial opinion. From one side I like that he is a brave person to experiment with different players like he did with Kaprizov-Rossi-Boldy or placed Boldy-Rossi-Faber in OT, but from the other side I do not like that he got rid from the team players who made some noticeable impact to the team like Kulikov; Steel; Addison. Like I said before, everyone does mistakes especially young players, but this way they are getting more experience and building more chemistry too. They are not robots. Of course preferable, to have less mistakes, but those are always happened. From the last interview with Kaprizov (yesterday) that he has a nice friendship with Zuccarello and Kulikov when he mentioned 6 players-friends in his career. Why did we destruct that important relation between Kaprizov and Kulikov when we got rid of Kulikov from the team (he played 80 games with us) is still a question for me? They had a pretty nice chemistry then in our team.

Not only for us, and probably, in NHL history. 2 SHG and 5 PP goals in our net in one game. Embarrassing result. Team was not able to compete. We need to build a chemistry for 3 lines (Boldy-Rossi- Johanssen; Foligno-Maroon- EEK; Duhaime-Dewar- Vinni Gaudreau(hope he will recover soon from his injury) as soon as possible and to build a chemistry among defensemen as well. With that play we are not fit to any round of the playoff. And maybe we lost a confidence to with that play too. Just hope we will not be the last team in our Division this season. I am glad that Kaprizov was not injured by Suter during this game. Unfortunately, he was hurt badly by him. Same story as it was during the playoffs last year between Kaprizov and Suter. At least I was right for this game in predicting 11 goals, but in predicting everything else for this game I was completely wrong. Sad. Sad. Sad.

All I want from this game to see a competitive play entire 60 minutes and to get at least 1 point. Still predicting our win 6:5 in OT.

As more we will argue with fans from other teams as better our team will be in front Fleury to get a historical record in NHL and personally for our club. Hope this will happen soon and will boost our team to a better play and to more wins. Hockey is a team sport. I am sure the Wild staff and some players are reading our forum.

But we had in our history only 1 Division title, zero Conference title , zero trips to Stanley Cup finals. But he won 3 out of 7. I am still happy that he at his age is making our history. No doubt that he will win his 6 wins with our club and be a 2nd goalie in entire NHL history in winning games. Sadly that he will not do this before his birthday on November 28, but hopefully before the end of this year. We badly need his wins as well Gustavsson wins too. We need lots of steal games to improve our standing position.

I agree. It was much better game for us, which we should win. Disappointing loss. I was listening that game during my driving to Litchfield. It seems we made 35 shots vs their 25 and had 2 PP goals. The most active was the line Kaprizov-Hartman-Zuccarello which was able to produce almost 50% of shots (15) towards opponent net and had 4 points (1 goal;3 assists). The other lines were not as active. I agree. Kaprizov should stay closer to the net. Closer to the blue line should stay nice shooting defensemen capable to protect the puck better and have a nice strong shot during our attacks. I do not know who could be this defenseman? Maybe Brodin or Faber? But both had mistakes too. I think to look better in our standings well, we need lots of ugly and deflected goals too, which we do not see yet. Congrats to EEK for his 100th goal! Not sure about the game on Sunday against Dallas. Too tough team to play against. It seems they are playing tonight against Winnipeg. Hope they will be tired enough to play against us well.

We hope that he will make for us at least the same as he did for Penguins. Any little is valuable a lot for Minnesota. He is making a history for NHL as well as for our club too at this time. Just needs to have 6 more wins to be a second goalie in NHL history with 551 wins.

Actually, I placed similar message during our last playoffs season when we played against Dallas. We had a chance to win that round, but didn't have lucky bounces to pass 1st round. I even put a percentage on 70% plays the role of better team and 30% luck during the game. Regarding underachieving bunch in Minnesota is a big question who is more underachieving team Minnesota or Buffalo? ClusterChuck is right Wild never scarred any team. But we made 10 playoffs seasons since 2012. We passed 1st round in 2013-14 and 2014-15 seasons and missed only playoffs in 2018-19 season. Regarding article on April 4;2023 from Athletic, Buffalo Sabres missed playoffs for 12 straight seasons, the longest active drought in pro sports. The Sabres last played in a playoff game in April, 2011. Every team in the league (besides the newly Kraken) has played at least 25 playoff games since then. Six NHL teams have played 100 playoff games since April, 2011.

Fleury played last night and played pretty well. Our team was not too good in front of him. Probably Gustavsson will start tonight.