Minnesota Wild @ Seattle Kraken, Saturday 11-13-21, 9:00pm, Climate Pledge Arena

[MNSOTA]

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Minnesota Wild (9-4-0)  18pts  2nd in the Central

3.31 Goals For Per Game (7th in the NHL)

3.15 Goals Against Per Game (24th in the NHL)

18.6% Power Play (18th in the NHL)

78.3% Penalty Kill (23rd in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #97 Kirill Kaprizov ~ 3G 8A = 11pts

2. #17 Marcus Foligno ~ 5G 4A = 9pts

3. #36 Mats Zuccarello ~ 3G 6A = 9pts

4. #24 Matthew Dumba ~ 2G 7A = 9pts

5. #38 Ryan Hartman ~ 7G 1A = 8pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #17 Marcus Foligno ~ 32 PIM's

2. #21 Brandon Duhaime ~ 24 PIM's

3. #24 Matthew Dumba ~ 8 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #33 Cam Talbot (7-3-0)  2.88GAA  .905%SP

2. #34 Kaapo Kahkonen (2-1-0)  3.08GAA  .882%SP

 

Vs.

 

Seattle Kraken (4-9-1)  9pts  8th in the Pacific

2.86 Goals For Per Game (17th in the NHL)

3.64 Goals Against Per Game (31st in the NHL)

9.3% Power Play (32nd in the NHL)

80.0% Penalty Kill (20th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #7 Jordan Eberle ~ 8G 3A = 11pts

2. #17 Jaden Schwartz ~ 3G 7A = 10pts

3. #16 Jared McCann ~ 5G 4A = 9pts

4. #21 Alex Wennberg ~ 1G 8A = 9pts

5. #13 Brandon Tanev ~ 6G 2A = 8pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #55 Jeremy Lauzon ~ 30 PIM's

2. #24 Jamie Oleksiak ~ 24 PIM's

3. #9 Ryan Donato ~ 17 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #31 Philipp Grubauer (4-6-1)  3.17GAA  .882%SP

2. #35 Joey Daccord (0-2-0)  4.06GAA  .855%SP

3. #60 Chris Drieger (0-1-0)  3.43GAA   .833%SP

[Icechipper]

Those early Wild years and all those 1-0, 1-1, 2-1 and 3-2 boxscores interesting enough for soccer fans. Halstol has a lot more to work with than Lemaire ever did. Lemaire commonly went with seven defensemen in his lineups, and for a time had likable lug Alex Henry on the fourth line wing spot...

[lynxrattle]

5 - 2 Wild win. There really can be no excuse to lose twice in a row against a team this lacking.

[Alexandron]

2 hours ago, lynxrattle said:

5 - 2 Wild win. There really can be no excuse to lose twice in a row against a team this lacking.

My prediction is even bigger 7:2 for our win. At least 40 shots we must to make towards their net as well as a must win game for us too. Agree. No excuses at all if we lose this game.

[Icechipper]

3-2 Seattle. I may be wrong and I often are.....

[Alexandron]

According to Russo tonight lines are:

Kaprizov - Gaudreau -Zuccarello;

Foligno - EEK - Fiala;

Greenway - Hartman - Pitlick

Duhaime - Sturm - Bjugstad;

 

Talbot is in net.

I still would prefer to see

Foligno-EEK - Fiala;

Kaprizov -Hartman- Zuccarello;

Duhaime- Sturm - Bjugstad;

Greenway - Gaudreau - Pitlick. 

If the 4th line will not show anything, then they should be benched and replaced by players from Iowa:

Rau - Rossi- Beckman.

We need a better speed for our team as well as production. And I think the youngsters from Iowa able to supply that need.

[Tomdog]

I like your line combinations better as well. 
Another tactic would be add in greenway, pitlick and gaudreau one at a time to one of the better lines to judge their output. If they struggle, demote them. 

[EmptyShelf]

3 hours ago, Tomdog said:

I like your line combinations better as well. 
Another tactic would be add in greenway, pitlick and gaudreau one at a time to one of the better lines to judge their output. If they struggle, demote them. 

My thoughts exactly.  I don't see much from Gaudreau that validates his positions on Top lines, and I also don't see much from Greenway to crow about.  Pitlick has looked decent.....for now.  I want Rossi up now, and Beckman, and possibly Nick Swaney.  Rau has run his course for me.  

[ClusterChuck]

We 'should' be ready for the Krack this time. Better be.
I'll go with 5-3 win.
Fiala and Brodin score tonight.  

[Jimtown guy]

These are the games they need. No messing around tonight. Pedal to the metal and don’t let up. Wild 4 Kracken 2

[Tomdog]

2 hours ago, EmptyShelf said:

My thoughts exactly.  I don't see much from Gaudreau that validates his positions on Top lines, and I also don't see much from Greenway to crow about.  Pitlick has looked decent.....for now.  I want Rossi up now, and Beckman, and possibly Nick Swaney.  Rau has run his course for me.  

Sadly to say I see Gaudreau as the best of those three, but definetly not first line material.

Beckman definetlly deserves to be here.

[Jimtown guy]

8 minutes ago, Tomdog said:

Sadly to say I see Gaudreau as the best of those three, but definetly not first line material.

Beckman definetlly deserves to be here.

I agree on Beckman. He needs to be with the big boys 

[wildstars95]

3-2 wild 

[Tomdog]

I'm pretty sure this game will be completly different from the last kracken game.

The regulars are back and they have seen seatle play now.

Seatle gets a little advantage on first time games as teams havn't had a chance to scout them.

[Tomdog]

Is it the tv broadcast or are the seatle fans really that quiet

[Tomdog]

what did hartman do to be punished by playing with greenway and pitlick

[ClusterChuck]

7 minutes ago, Tomdog said:

Is it the tv broadcast or are the seatle fans really that quiet

Audio must be bad...Barely heard the icing whistle.

[Alexandron]

2 hours ago, EmptyShelf said:

My thoughts exactly.  I don't see much from Gaudreau that validates his positions on Top lines, and I also don't see much from Greenway to crow about.  Pitlick has looked decent.....for now.  I want Rossi up now, and Beckman, and possibly Nick Swaney.  Rau has run his course for me.  

Agree about Swaney too. I forgot about him , because I lost an interest to the Iowa Wild team. Promising presenting an interest players from Iowa should play here, but not players which were signed this summer and not presenting an interest a lot for me.

[ClusterChuck]

Fiala waited way too long to shoot that.

[EmptyShelf]

Sound is a bit muted.  I think it is the broadcast.  We need to get a couple quick goals and quit letting them hang around...

[ClusterChuck]

Somebody finally hit the audio switch.

[Alexandron]

9 minutes ago, Tomdog said:

what did hartman do to be punished by playing with greenway and pitlick

He did not do anything, but  sadly they put him with Greenway; Pitlick, which are low scoring players. He should play in a second line together with Kaprizov and Zuccarello. All 3 together can produce. Gaudreu is also a low scoring player, but they placed him in a 1st line as a center, which is a mistake.

[bbgarnett]

Pitlick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Jimtown guy]

Pitlick!!!!!!

[Alexandron]

Wow,Pitlick's 1st goal!