Minnesota Wild vs New Jersey Devils, Thursday 12-2-21, 7:00pm, Xcel Energy Center

[Tomdog]

GM Bill Guerin continues to have the golden touch when picking players 

[Alexandron]

Foligno had a superb chance to score .

[ClusterChuck]

Dumba being Dumba...What were you doing trying to kick the puck??  Could've been a penalty if he caught leg.
He also waits too long at the Blue line to shoot or decide what to do...of course the lane won't be to your liking by then.

[Alexandron]

Why Greenway did not shoot himself?

[ClusterChuck]

Solid 1st !! 
Only way better is with a PP goal.

[Tomdog]

Just now, Alexandron said:

Why Greenway did not shoot himself?

That's why he has 1 goal and averages less than 2 shots per game.

[Alexandron]

Good period. Ours 13 shots vs their 9.

[Tomdog]

With the wild's line chemestry their PP should just be regular lines.

The mixed up lines for the PP have no chemestry and scrambles things after the PP is over.

[ClusterChuck]

Nice point about Kulikov. Many people would just see the last year(s) stats and wonder why sign him? 
Guerin must have known more than just stats and Kulikov has found a good fit here. Nice signing so far.

[Alexandron]

3 minutes ago, ClusterChuck said:

Nice point about Kulikov. Many people would just see the last year(s) stats and wonder why sign him? 
Guerin must have known more than just stats and Kulikov has found a good fit here. Nice signing so far.

He has already 10 points (1 goal; 9 assists; +/- +8) in 21 games with us. Nice solid defenseman.

[Alexandron]

32 minutes ago, Tomdog said:

GM Bill Guerin continues to have the golden touch when picking players 

From Russo twit:

 

Mikko Koivu: "Players play, coaches coach and management manages. As a player, you don’t always realize that." Koivu, after watching this faster, deeper, more exciting #mnwild team, now understands why Bill Guerin had to change out the old guard.

[bbgarnett]

4 minutes ago, Alexandron said:

From Russo twit:

 

Mikko Koivu: "Players play, coaches coach and management manages. As a player, you don’t always realize that." Koivu, after watching this faster, deeper, more exciting #mnwild team, now understands why Bill Guerin had to change out the old guard.

 

Yeah and that was very evident when Parise and Pylon tried to go behind the coaches back and bring in Adam Oates to help with a struggling PP.

[bbgarnett]

Hartman!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bbgarnett]

maybe Kaprizov X2?

[Tomdog]

1 minute ago, bbgarnett said:

 

Yeah and that was very evident when Parise and Pylon tried to go behind the coaches back and bring in Adam Oates to help with a struggling PP.

And did Mikko ever call them out on that?

[bbgarnett]

3 minutes ago, Tomdog said:

And did Mikko ever call them out on that?

pretty sure he did not 

[Alexandron]

1 minute ago, bbgarnett said:

maybe Kaprizov X2?

Yeah. KAPRIZOVx2

[ClusterChuck]

3 minutes ago, bbgarnett said:

 

Yeah and that was very evident when Parise and Pylon tried to go behind the coaches back and bring in Adam Oates to help with a struggling PP.

Our success this year has to be killing Parise and Suter. 

[ClusterChuck]

Devil's kicking it in after that goal.

[Tomdog]

Looks like the Graves goal woke up the wild

[ClusterChuck]

Hartman 2 great chances !!
Keep this up.

[Alexandron]

Fantastic play by that line Kaprizov-Hartman-Ziuccarello; Kulikov-Merrill.

[Tomdog]

3 minutes ago, ClusterChuck said:

Our success this year has to be killing Parise and Suter. 

Before the season started I never thought we would be this good.

This team is playing really well and against some pretty good teams as well

[Alexandron]

Bad goal.

[ClusterChuck]

"Dumba caught flat-Footed"
No chit...