Minnesota Wild vs Carolina Hurricanes, Tuesday 12-14-21, 7:00pm, Xcel Energy Center

[MNSOTA]

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Minnesota Wild (19-8-1)  39pts  1st in the Central

3.68 Goals For Per Game (3rd in the NHL)

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

17.4% Power Play (21st in the NHL)

81.0% Penalty Kill (15th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #97 Kirill Kaprizov ~ 10G 22A = 32pts

2. #38 Ryan Hartman ~ 13G 10A = 23pts

3. #36 Mats Zuccarello ~ 8G 14A = 22pts

4. #14 Joel Eriksson Ek ~ 11G 9A = 20pts

5. #17 Marcus Foligno ~ 13G 6A = 19pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #17 Marcus Foligno ~ 48 PIM's

2. #21 Brandon Duhaime ~ 44 PIM's

3. #38 Ryan Hartman ~ 25 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #33 Cam Talbot (15-6-0)   2.71GAA   .917SV%

2. #34 Kaapo Kahkonen (4-2-1)   2.75GAA   .905SV%

 

Vs.

 

Carolina Hurricanes (19-7-1)   39pts 2nd in the Metropolitan

3.15 Goals For Per Game (11th in the NHL)

2.15 Goals Against Per Game (1st in the NHL)

20.5% Power Play (11th in the NHL)

88.0% Penalty Kill (2nd in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #37 Andrei Svechnikov ~ 9G 12A = 21pts

2. #86 Teuvo Teravainen ~ 6G 14A = 20pts

3. #77 Anthony DeAngelo ~ 4G 15A = 19pts

4. #16 Vincent Trocheck ~ 6G 12A = 18pts

5. #88 Martin Necas ~ 7G 8A = 13pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #16 Vincent Trocheck ~ 37 PIM's

2. #37 Andrei Svechnikov ~ 35 PIM's

3. #28 Ian Cole ~ 33 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #31 Frederik Andersen (14-5-0)   1.93GAA   .930SV%   1SO

2. #32 Antti Raanta (4-2-1)   2.37GAA   .907SV%

[MNSOTA]

Hurricanes are without their top scorer in Sebastian Aho due to testing positive for Covid while in Vancouver. He, Seth Jarvis, and a staff member were left in Vancouver. And oh boy, are their lines juggled around due to those two players being out of the lineup.

 

Also, game is on ESPN+/Hulu tonight. 

[Math]

 

[lynxrattle]

Damnit. Hope everyone's ok. Have to get my hockey watching some other team...

[ClusterChuck]

Not the worst news. Give Brodin a chance to heal more. I heard he skated today so that's a positive.
Bad side it'll add probably another back to back later in a heavy schedule after the Olympics. 
 

[Confrontational]

Yea, heard Hurricanes postponed game for a week - no doubt it's going to be brutal on them to play catch-up...  But, what can you do I guess... Strange - they're all vaccinated too - which brings up an entirely different question on if anything is effective...  From their coach: "Everyone did what they had to do. We got vaccinated. We did our part. We're masking up. So you know, I don't know what else there is to do. The good news is they're not getting sick."

 

Regarding the Olympics - they have until Jan 11th to make a decision - the player make that decision - and a few have already backed out. Evidently the protocol by China is that if you're positive you'll be force quantined - 21 days to 5 weeks! - and you have to do two positive tests to get out 24hrs apart...  So, many are thinking that should that happen - it impacts their NHL schedule...  My bet is nobody in the NHL goes with those kind of rules you have to worry about - not to mention away from your family if test positive, etc...  

 

https://new.in-24.com/News/381354.html 

[Alexandron]

14 hours ago, MNSOTA said:

Hurricanes are without their top scorer in Sebastian Aho due to testing positive for Covid while in Vancouver. He, Seth Jarvis, and a staff member were left in Vancouver. And oh boy, are their lines juggled around due to those two players being out of the lineup.

 

Also, game is on ESPN+/Hulu tonight. 

It seems Vancouver is affecting players from other teams by infection while their own team is continuing to win ( 5 wins in row already) since they have a new head coach Bruce Boudreau. 

[lynxrattle]

They seem to infect the right opponents too. Aho is the best forward there, and Jarvis the most intriguing newcomer there.