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Yes. Not at all. And now we have 0:3 score. Sad. I do not think we will be able to finish well this game.

It seems refs are almost always against us.

Probably not since his injury from Jets Logan Stanley plus Suter added to it during game#1 and later.

And Foligno is out for this game. I just watched explanation of specialists during intermission. It was unfortunate and it should be given 2 minutes for him.

That period passed like a second. So fast. 2 more to go.

Pretty nice play for Zuccarello against Robertson.

Finally we started to control better the puck.

Line#4 now makes the weather. Good.

Kaprizov is the most noticeable for our team so far. All the time goes to the net as well as Zuccarello.

Robertson 2 - Kaprizov 1.

0:2 now. Penalties are killing us.

Our 3 shots vs their 9 shots.

Zuccarello had a nice shot. Tough start. We should stay out of penalty box.

Probably not only entire Minnesota and Texas will be watching this game but entire Sweden, because we have lots of players from Sweden in comparison to other teams and they are our stars too- Johansson, Nyquist, Klingberg, Brodin, Gustavsson, EEK(unfortunately injured). Without them we would not compete as well against Dallas. No doubt.

Michael Russo Retweeted The Athletic NHL @TheAthleticNHL 1h Things didn’t end pleasantly for John Klingberg in Dallas. He loves the playoffs and hopes to help the Wild advance past the first round for the first time since 2015. The only thing standing in his way? The Stars, writes @RussoHockey. I like a lot this motivation!!!!

Sincerely, I do not care about Dallas team if it will pass to the next round despite of having a Minnesota native goalie and/or because it was our former team North Stars. It is a playoffs, and nothing else is matter. We must to win this round just to show that we are a better team than Stars. I was working recently at different hospitals and many fans from there are going to see at arena our home game on Friday. Everyone was believing into our win because they are still trust to our goalie and experienced team around him. I did not see there anyone who was skeptical. Wow.

Because of who? Referees?

We should not blame on Kaprizov(1 goal) and Boldy (0 goals) so far these series. Playoffs is a different level of animal (for me is battle of gladiators). I just looked for stats of the best player this regular season McDavid (64 goals) who is having so far 2 goals these series. And Robertson is not the best too (1 goal) in 4 games, but had 46 goals this regular season. Playoffs is mainly an outstanding team's play and win is also a team's win. Does not matter who place goals for the team's win.

No doubt, crucial a must win game for us. Gustavsson must be in net tonight. His GAA these series 1.72; 0.941% vs Fleury's 7.00; 0.774%.

It was a huge Evason mistake to place Fleury in game#2. Probably we would be now in a better standing position these series (maybe 3:1), or at least we would not lose with an embarrassing score like we did with Fleury that game. And the team's winning mentality would be better too. How we placed Fleury against Oettinger when their GAA so different?

Unfortunately, they certainly did in game#4. Two wrong penalties with poor PK from our side cost us 2 goals on our net. We had a chance to win that game at least with a score 2:1.

Michael Russo wrote: "The difference in the game is an interference penalty that is clearly not interference".

I agree also with Math view, Oettinger helped to steal this game from us. We had pretty nice grade A chances which he was able to take. I started to compare hockey playoffs games with a fight of gladiators. The winner has a better enormous physical and mental resistance, of course, combined with talent, than his opponent.

Evason will lose his job with the same speed as Army lost his job after the game of elimination during the 1st round of playoffs. How many times in our history we are not able to pass round#1? It is a real time to pass it. We have a good potential this year for doing that task: good experienced players combined with a good goalie (Gustavsson). Our fans asking not a lot - to pass 1st round of this year.

Better will not put him in game #5. Gustavsson is keeping us with a minimal score, but with Fleury we never know. Our team is not capable to score 7-8 goals in one game when Fleury is in net. We had very disappointing penalties which led to a very disappointed loss. Unfortunately, not happened tonight 3:1 series lead in the Wild history. Sad, sad, sad.