Hockey-78

6 hours ago, lynxrattle said:

Yup. PK, goal tending, scoring, discipline, Kap not shooting anymore - there are a lot of things that certainly look suspect. It's early, though, and everyone else is struggling too. Pointswise we're good. Now it is about fixing the problems, if we can.

13 shots in 5 games. Man, sounds like Parise had just enough time to leave his legacy.

Speaking of The Mentor: 6 games, 12 shots, 0 points. The Wild bought him out 5 years too late.

But if the Wild could elevate itself to be a contender within 3 years, one could argue they bought him out just in time. Might be Parise's last season, who knows.

17 hours ago, Bear said:

How's that nine million looking now. 

 

I believe he's on pace to score 0 + 82. Wouldn't it be funny if he did just that.

I mean I reckon that'd leave 50% of the fans happy and 50% unhappy.

18 hours ago, TallyTigerShark said:

While winning 4 come from behind one goal games to start the season shows the fight this team has, it also shows that we could very easily be 0-4 if the pucks hadn’t bounced our way. Perhaps the high adrenaline games have them feeling a little jet lagged tonight??

 

I could be in the minority, but color me very unimpressed with the play of our defensemen in our defensive end. Perhaps they are having trouble adjusting to the cross checking rules?? We just seem to give up way too many open chances in our slot and around the goal. It’s been that way since game one to me and it’s ALL of the defensemen if you ask me, even Dumba, Spurgeon and Brodin. Am I alone in the thought?

No, you are right.

They lack strength to do anything about it. All of those three you mentioned are finesse players with small balls.

They need someone like Oleksiak or Zadorov to show how it's been done.

19 hours ago, ClusterChuck said:

Can't even drive to the net anymore?? There's going to be contact especially when the goalie's own player helps that along.

These modern puppies lack the mentality to do that.

The offensive corps have probably 2 or 3 players who are willing to do that. The rest of the forwards are just a bunch of pu**ies to put it bluntly.

20 hours ago, ClusterChuck said:

Meh... If he did that more consistently here he'd still be with us.

Nah... he did. Fenton just didn't fancy him.

Sorokin - what a stud. 

On 8/29/2019 at 5:50 PM, Podein25 said:

 

Hmmm...

 

Now this is just a hunch, but it occurs to me that Pullsy is just not a very good hockey player. 

Now it occurs to me you were horribly, horribly wrong.

Jesse is in the middle of making the U-turn of all the U-turns, for real.

So the big question is: are we witnessing the direct result of the departure of both #20 and #11 OR is this totally unrelated to that?

OT, Suter amassed over 6 mins. PP time against the Bruins and they lost. 

12 hours ago, lynxrattle said:

6-4 loss against the Avs. Addison +/- -4, Hammond save % .64 or something. Beckman with another goal, though.

Hammond's been toast for a while. They should show him the door and let some kid take his spot. 

Experience is good but not when you can't hack it anymore.

On 9/25/2021 at 11:40 PM, Alexandron said:

I was listening few Russian hockey channels. You are right they are giving more appreciation to him. It was a discussion who is on a 6th place Kaprizov or Svechnikov from Carolina? And they put Kaprizov, and Svechnikov is on a 7th place. The rest of other Russian players having less interest to their media. They think Kaprizov did more for the Russian hockey by winning Olympic gold after placing GWG in OT and winning a Gagarin Cup with CSKA, Moscow. And also he won a NHL Calder trophy last year, but Svechnikov was not able to do that. 

Svechnikov did enter the league as an 18 y old kid, Kaprizov was 23. That's a pretty big difference. Will Svechnikov make as many headlines as Kaprizov in two years, I don't know but the difference between those two IMO isn't really that big despite Kaprizov's awesome rookie season.

I'm sure you and me and the Russian hockey channels will be much wiser after the upcoming season. I'm thinking Kaprizov will have his hands full of keeping Andrei behind him in that pecking order rather than surpassing any of those guys above him. 

I guess it's pretty clear already but I really, really like Svechnikov as a player. 

5 hours ago, Alexandron said:

Thanks Lynxrattle. Nice interview with Guerin. It seems he is confident in everything he is doing for the team's success. 

Interesting, that Russian hockey media talking a lot about this contract; pluses and minuses, but they predict very high interest and attention to our team in the world. They put him on a 6th place among all NHL Russian players after Vasilevskiy, Kucherov, Ovechkin,Panarin,Malkin, but his rating could be higher in a future. Their hockey media sadly said only one thing that Kirill does not like to give an interviews to them.

Alex, who is "they"? IMO that's some list "they" put him on the 6th place. Vasilevskiy is the least experienced of those 6 and to this date he's played 302 games and won both Vezina and Conn Smythe Trophy. IMHO Kaprizov's cinderella run under extraordinary circumstandes is getting way too much appreciation.

I wonder who was right behind Kirill in that list?

23 hours ago, Alexandron said:

No turn soon for rottenrefs. Parise and Kaprizov are absolutely different players with a different achievements in their careers. For these money Kaprizov will play like a lion. Parise was not a lion for this team. Even Guerin agreed Kaprizov is the worth of money they pay to him after so much attention is having team after his arrival last season.

I was comparing their contracts. Both risky at the time of signing, no denying of that.

Lion? We'll see. Last season he had something to prove. In the upcoming season, who knows. If the Wild win more in the regular season than last year, it was an ok move. If the Wild have a deep run, you could argue it was an excellent move. The time span is short though; the Wild have to get some results in the next two seasons, otherwise they're screwed.

Guerin agreed? It would've been a real marketing failure to express contrary feelings right after the signing. Guerin: "I mean, he's a nice guy but not really worth the money." Helluva way to motivate a player. 

On 9/22/2021 at 3:56 AM, CreaseAndAssist said:

Wild Sign Kirill Kaprizov to 5-year, $45 million deal and more Wild news

 

I share my thoughts on the deal and other Wild news.  I really don't get the full no trade the last two years.  Stupid and too much money.  Enjoy and discuss.

The Wild organization repeating it's own blatant errors from time to time with these anchor contracts even if that you-know-who schmuck is no longer with the team.

Too much money and years cemented on a seemingly selfish player who's even not fully committed to the team to begin with.

First he won't sign and then he demands two years worth of NTC. To be or not to be.

A very bad deal which most likely will haunt the Wild, like it did in the case of Parise and Suter. 

Nice job Wild of ensuring to stay in the path of failure for a decade and counting.

You can't make this **** up. Your turn, @rottenrefs.

Lol, I already posted about it in another thread. Pure folly.

Let me just say some organizations never seem to learn.

Now Russo tweets the Wild are anxious, again, to hire him BACK!

14 hours ago, bbgarnett said:

I think this might be the first time I've heard of a player confirming his own signing before it's officially announced. 

When you've had the taste of being THE Boss and dictating things, how can give up on that... you can't, it's in your blood.

And Suter with a NMC... Goddamn, what are those clowns doing in Dallas. They sign and seal the deal with the same clause that was the very reason player was bought out to begin with?! 

Kirill, I'm sure you're a nice guy and all, but for crying out loud:

If you can't and won't wear your smelly jock straps for no less than $9 mil. a year, you can come and ki$$ my rear when I fart after five burritos. 

Seriously, grow a pair.

17 hours ago, Bear said:

should have started that a couple of years ago

Can we split the difference and say 2012?

21 hours ago, Alexandron said:

An interesting article came up recently about our former 1st round#15 overall pick Luke Kunin. He is in Nashville now and played not bad at all together with Grandlund last season. That team has a good current strategy (no longer will professional resumes and contracts be the deciding factor in roles and ice time) according to the article:

https://www.si.com/hockey/news/luke-kunin-a-special-kind-of-player

 

Maybe we should use this too?

Yeah.

Someone needs to go and rub that article in Parise's and Suter's face. Like today.

IMO a very beneficial deal for the Wild.

34 minutes ago, TonyOday said:

Screw KK. You put the 7 year deal on the table and say take it or leave it. He is being paid after his camp made us wait for 5 years while he screwed around in the KHL. You want to go back there then go back. 

Yeah. $70 mil. isn't enough based on such a small sample size of games? 

You've got to be [insert] kidding me.

How the Wild is always able to draft and acquire these money-grubbers is beyond belief...

3 minutes ago, CreaseAndAssist said:

Iowa signed another forward Ryan Kuffner to a 1-year AHL deal.  He was a top scorer at Princeton University and played last season in the German Bundesliga for ERC Ingolstadt.  He had 7 points and 14 points in 31 games last season.  

 

He's 6'1", 195lbs left winger (left shot).  

 

Forwards

RW - Mitchell Chaffee 

RW - Nick Swaney

C - Damien Giroux

C - Joey Cramarossa

RW - Ivan Lodnia

C - Connor Dewar

C - Kyle Rau

C - Dominic Turgeon

F - Cody McLeod

LW - Brandon Duhaime

C / LW - Will Bitten

LW - Ryan Kuffner

 

Defense:

D - Fedor Gordeev

D - Riese Zmolek

D - Dakota Mermis

D - Jon Lizotte

D - Joey Hicketts

D - Kevin Czuczman  

 

Goaltenders:

Andrew Hammond

Dereck Baribeau

Hunter Jones

25 year old scoring 14 points in 31 games in Germany? Probably little reason to get excited about him, huh?

The Flyers.

23 hours ago, Icechipper said:

Kaprisov Ek Zuccarello

Greenway Rask Foligno

Boldy Bjugstad Fiala

Sturm Hartman Geudreau

 

Brodin Dumba

Goligoski Spurgeon

Kulikov Merrill

 

Talbot

Kahkonen

 

Rossi will start in Iowa

Addison in Iowa

 

Rau Duhaime Lizzote scratches

 

 

That is not a contender unless Suter and Parise were even bigger cancers than everyone believes.

16 hours ago, CreaseAndAssist said:

 

When you look at the two lists, we look like we're becoming the Arizona Coyotes.  Maybe not quite that bad, but it doesn't look like we're moving forward.  (sigh)  

I agree.

But, in some strange, eery way to me Golikoski and Kulikov look on paper better than Suter and Cole. The Wild might have a better mixture on D next season.