Minnesota Wild @ Dallas Stars, Monday 12-20-21, 7:30pm, American Airlines Arena

[MNSOTA]

https://thesportsdaily.com/2021/12/20/game-preview-minnesota-wild-vs-dallas-stars-12-20-21-730pm-cst-at-american-airlines-arena/

 

Minnesota Wild (19-8-2)  40pts  1st in the Central

3.62 Goals For Per Game (2nd in the NHL)

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

17.0% Power Play (23rd in the NHL)

81.4% Penalty Kill (12th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #97 Kirill Kaprizov ~ 11G 22A = 33pts

2. #38 Ryan Hartman ~ 13G 11A = 24pts

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 (15-6-1)  2.67GAA  .919%SP

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

 

Vs.

 

Dallas Stars (14-12-2)  30pts  6th in the Central

2.64 Goals For Per Game (25th in the NHL)

2.86 Goals Against Per Game (16th in the NHL)

26.8% Power Play (4th in the NHL)

80.0% Penalty Kill (18th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #16 Joe Pavelski ~ 11G 15A = 26pts

2. #21 Jason Robertson ~ 10G 13A = 23pts

3. #24 Roope Hintz ~ 11G 10A = 21pts

4. #4 Miro Heiskanen ~ 3G 13A = 16pts

5. #20 Ryan Suter ~ 3G 11A = 14pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #2 Jani Hakanpaa ~ 29 PIM's

2. #14 Jamie Benn ~ 27 PIM's

3. #14 Radek Faksa ~ 21 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #70 Brayden Holtby (5-7-1)  2.44GA  .922%SP

2. #29 Jake Oettinger (6-2-0)  2.02GAA  .932%SP

Edited December 20, 2021 by MNSOTA

[Jimtown guy]

 

[wildstars95]

vikes and wild  prime time  i shall parlay both to win tonight

3-2 wild

bears +7 - vikes should win by field goal

roughly same start times

the wild take precedence over check down Charlie Cousins

Edited December 20, 2021 by wildstars95

[lynxrattle]

Let's hope for a good game. The way Omicron is now spreading, there might be next to no games until most of the players have suffered it.

 

4 - 2 Wild win.

 

 

[Alexandron]

4:3 Wild win. Probably in OT. We need lots of points. As more we will have as more confident team will feel during playoffs. Predators already having 7 wins in a row and are staying 1 point behind us . Blues also is 1 point behind us and Avalanche with 4 points difference with us, but they played 2 games less than we are. 

[Alexandron]

1 hour ago, lynxrattle said:

Let's hope for a good game. The way Omicron is now spreading, there might be next to no games until most of the players have suffered it.

 

4 - 2 Wild win.

 

 

Suffered from a temporarily absence of smell and mild headache which are the main Omicron symptoms, which is nothing.

 

What is surprising me, our NHL players are getting lots of tests on Covid infection. Maybe by that way they are getting infection too through the mouth or nose? Who knows who is doing them and how they are doing those multiple tests, and what they are inserting that way? And so far in 2 years ZERO players have got at least one test on antibodies to that infection.  I know our University of Minnesota Medical Center does these antibodies tests for 2 years as well as doctors in Russia do these tests to their population. If the test shows antibodies above 10 than you do not need to do anything because you are safe to work as well as to play hockey and other sports. We have lots of Russian players in many hockey leagues here, because it is a huge business in sport, but we should do a combined research in a medical field among doctors and universities in US and Russia to simplify the situation, because medicine and pharmacology is a huge business too . At least we can do these antibodies tests for the Wild team because we do that in our Medical Center of University in Minnesota.

 

[ClusterChuck]

"Fiala will play right wing with Eriksson Ek and Foligno"
That might be a nice combo that gets Fiala going.
Spurgeon being out again sucks but given how he played, He didn't look even close to 100%.
Get him fully healthy for after Christmas.
Hard to even predict this game since we've been flat anytime after a few days off.
Like tosee them get back to the 5 goal mark so, Wild win 5-3.

[Alexandron]

1 hour ago, ClusterChuck said:

"Fiala will play right wing with Eriksson Ek and Foligno"
That might be a nice combo that gets Fiala going.
Spurgeon being out again sucks but given how he played, He didn't look even close to 100%.
Get him fully healthy for after Christmas.
Hard to even predict this game since we've been flat anytime after a few days off.
Like tosee them get back to the 5 goal mark so, Wild win 5-3.

Hope to see from Fiala a 5 goal game like we saw from Gaborik in 2007 when played for the Wild team:

 

 

[Alexandron]

And from Talbot to see this play :

 

[ClusterChuck]

My so-called new 'decent' internet has been wonky lately... Alex's pics won't show... Slow loading etc Speedtest says all's good tho.
Resetting modem way too often too.

[bbgarnett]

LOL payback for the game in St Paul?

[Jimtown guy]

Here we go again?

[Jimtown guy]

Yes here we go again 

[ClusterChuck]

This is fun...

[bbgarnett]

Maybe I should just turn on football 

[Jimtown guy]

Hartman!!!!

[bbgarnett]

Hartman!!!!!!!!!! 

[ClusterChuck]

Thank you Hartman !!

[bbgarnett]

Slick pass

[Alexandron]

HEART MAN!!!!!

[ClusterChuck]

Pylon24 just swatting at the player on 1st goal and Talbot should've had that 2nd. 

[Alexandron]

Pretty fast game so far.

8 minutes ago, bbgarnett said:

Maybe I should just turn on football 

Not yet. 

[bbgarnett]

1 minute ago, Alexandron said:

Pretty fast game so far.

Not yet. 

I have both on hockey on TV football on my PC. Chatting here on my phone 

Edited December 21, 2021 by bbgarnett

[Alexandron]

1 minute ago, ClusterChuck said:

Pylon24 just swatting at the player on 1st goal and Talbot should've had that 2nd. 

Very surprise start. When I turned my computer, it was 2:0 already on their 2 shots.

[Alexandron]

1 minute ago, bbgarnett said:

I have both on hockey on TV football on my PC. Chatting here on my phone 

Who is better?