Minnesota Wild vs Toronto Maple Leafs, Saturday 12-4-21, 7:00pm, Xcel Energy Center

[MNSOTA]

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Minnesota Wild (16-6-1)  33pts  1st in the Central

3.74 Goals For Per Game (4th in the NHL)

2.91 Goals Against Per Game (17th in the NHL)

13.5% Power Play (27th in the NHL)

82.1% Penalty Kill (17th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #97 Kirill Kaprizov ~ 9G 19A = 28pts

2. #38 Ryan Hartman ~ 13G 8A = 21pts

3. #36 Mats Zuccarello ~ 6G 11A = 17pts

4. #47 Alex Goligoski ~ 2G 14A = 16pts

5. #17 Marcus Foligno ~ 9G 6A = 15pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #21 Brandon Duhaime ~ 44 PIM's

2. #17 Marcus Foligno ~ 41 PIM's

3. #38 Ryan Hartman ~ 23 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #33 Cam Talbot (12-5-0)  2.71GAA  .914%SP

2. #34 Kaapo Kahkonen (4-1-1)  2.87GAA  .895%SP

 

Vs.

 

Toronto Maple Leafs (17-6-1)  35pts  2nd in the Atlantic

3.08 Goals For Per Game (13th in the NHL)

2.17 Goals Against Per Game (2nd in the NHL)

23.4% Power Play (8th in the NHL)

85.9% Penalty Kill (6th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #91 John Tavares ~ 11G 14A = 25pts

2. #88 William Nylander ~ 10G 13A = 23pts

3. #34 Auston Matthews ~ 13G 9A = 22pts

4. #16 Mitchell Marner ~ 6G 15A = 21pts

5. #58 Michael Bunting ~ 6G 11A = 17pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #20 Nick Ritchie ~ 19 PIM's

2. #58 Michael Bunting ~ 16 PIM's

3. #24 Wayne Simmonds ~ 15 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #36 Jack Campbell (13-4-1)  1.72GAA  .943%SP  3SO

2. #60 Joseph Woll (3-0-0)  1.67GAA  .939%SP  1SO

[lynxrattle]

My brains tell me that the Wild is not yet able to deal with TOR. The heart says we can win anyone on a good day. I think I'll still say it's a TOR win. 3 - 2 OT, Shootout winner Nylander.

[ClusterChuck]

Oddly enough to have back to back 5-2 wins, But we've done that twice so far. Previously losing afterwards to VGK 3-2.
I can see this game doing the same with the Leafs. 
But we were able to handle TB nicely so maybe this time Wild win 3-2.

[bbgarnett]

Game starts at 6 not 7.

[wildstars95]

my heart say's 6-4 wild but my betting brain say's 4-2 leafs empty netter 

In a game like this the power play is an absolute must

depends on what wild team hit's the ice tonight

[Tomdog]

I'm going to call this a wild win, just barely.

[Icechipper]

Tonight, in St. Paul:

 

The Ontario All Stars vs. Team World

 

And just to make it a fair match, we got a couple of Minnesota boys on both teams!

Edited December 4, 2021 by Icechipper

[Tomdog]

Where is everyone?

[bbgarnett]

maybe they all think the game starts at 7

[Tomdog]

This is starting to look like a great game

[bbgarnett]

Dumba isn't looking good so far.

[Tomdog]

That's a bad way to start.

[bbgarnett]

Nice I love the hard hitting rough stuff

[bbgarnett]

Greenway!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[wildstars95]

steady as she goes boy's ... steady as she goes 

[ClusterChuck]

31 minutes ago, bbgarnett said:

maybe they all think the game starts at 7

That would be me

 

[ClusterChuck]

29 minutes ago, bbgarnett said:

Dumba isn't looking good so far.

If Matt is this 'Leader' that's been mentioned so many times, Get's the 'A' also, I'd like to see him man his own pairing instead of having the safety net of Brodin next to him.
Sure they're buddies and all that and know each other etc etc, But I'd like to see Brodin shine without Babysitting Dumba.

[Tomdog]

7 minutes ago, ClusterChuck said:

If Matt is this 'Leader' that's been mentioned so many times, Get's the 'A' also, I'd like to see him man his own pairing instead of having the safety net of Brodin next to him.
Sure they're buddies and all that and know each other etc etc, But I'd like to see Brodin shine without Babysitting Dumba.

That was why he could never be paired with Suter.

Suter didn't have the speed to coverup for him.

[bbgarnett]

Zucchini!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Edited December 5, 2021 by bbgarnett

[ClusterChuck]

A PP goal ??  
 

Edited December 5, 2021 by ClusterChuck

[Tomdog]

Hilarious, Dermit crying about the penalty.

But I suppose, the refs have let Toronto trip the whole 1st period.

[ClusterChuck]

Is that the same ref Fiala hacked on the hand last game? 

[bbgarnett]

Foligno!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Tomdog]

Foligno

[ClusterChuck]

MOOSE !!