Minnesota Wild vs Montreal Canadians, Monday 1-24-22, 7:00pm, Xcel Energy Center

[MNSOTA]

https://thesportsdaily.com/2022/01/24/game-preview-minnesota-wild-vs-montreal-canadiens-1-24-22-700pm-cst-at-xcel-energy-center/

 

Minnesota Wild (24-10-3)  51pts  4th in the Central

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

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

17.7% Power Play (21st in the NHL)

79.7% Penalty Kill (16th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #97 Kirill Kaprizov ~ 17G 30A = 47pts

2. #36 Mats Zuccarello ~ 11G 25A = 36pts

3. #38 Ryan Hartman ~ 18G 14A = 32pts

4. #22 Kevin Fiala ~ 10G 17A = 27pts

5. #17 Marcus Foligno ~ 16G 10A = 26pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #17 Marcus Foligno ~ 61 PIM's

2. #21 Brandon Duhaime ~ 56 PIM's

3. #38 Ryan Hartman ~ 38 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #34 Kaapo Kahkonen (9-2-2)  2.48GAA  .922%SP

2. #33 Cam Talbot (15-8-1)  3.00GAA  .909%SP

 

Vs.

 

Montreal Canadiens (8-25-7)  23pts  8th in the Atlantic

2.18 Goals For Per Game (32nd in the NHL)

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

13.3% Power Play (31st in the NHL)

73% Penalty Kill (30th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #14 Nick Suzuki ~ 8G 16A = 24pts

2. #73 Tyler Toffoli ~ 7G 14A = 21pts

3. #92 Jonathan Drouin ~ 6G 14A = 20pts

4. #20 Christian Dvorak ~ 7G 9A = 16pts

5. #62 Artturi Lehkonen ~ 5G 10A = 15pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #55 Michael Pezzetta ~ 37 PIM's

2. #8 Ben Chiarot ~ 32 PIM's

3. #20 Chris Wideman ~ 28 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #30 Cayden Primeau (1-3-1)  3.84GAA  .898%SP

2. #35 Samuel Montembeault (2-6-4)  3.73GAA  .904%SP

[lynxrattle]

I feel strangely optimistic. Wild win with a score of 5 - 1.

[Confrontational]

To believe the Canadiens have fallen this far this year - it's kind of shocking...  Don't know much about them - what was the big change that happened to them this year...?  They're in last place of all 32 teams - jeeeezus...  

[Tomdog]

Well they did kind of over achieved last year.

[Tomdog]

I hope tonight the wild finally wake uo and move gudreau down to the 4th line.

I'm really getting tired of watching Fiala playing with 1 linemate.

Gudreau does nothing for that line.

If Sturm is going to stay on the 4th line because they have good chemistry, they should increase their ice time.

Otherwise add some speed to Fiala and put sturm with him.

Put Gudreau to the 4th and play him less.

[ClusterChuck]

With a few days off after tonight, No reason not to put in a full effort even if it's the Canadians.
Wild should win 5-2.

[Alexandron]

Predicting Wild win. 6:3. We will see if Pitlick will be playing tonight for Canadiens.

[Alexandron]

3 hours ago, Tomdog said:

Well they did kind of over achieved last year.

That is true. This year complete opposite.

[wildstars95]

if the wild don't think they've won the game without playing it ....   I say 4-2

[Tomdog]

I agree with ClusterChuck wild win 5-2

[wildstars95]

does pitlick show his wrath ..and score a goal tonight  ....  stay tuned

[Jimtown guy]

Pitlick gets the Habs lone goal in the 
Wilds 4-1 victory 

[Jimtown guy]

There goes that prediction 

[wildstars95]

should have said 8-7 wild with sievebot in net

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

Habs may be horrible, but one thing they tend to do is hit.

This should be a very physical test for the Wild, though they should, SHOULD, have the edge in talent and offense lines 1-4.
Montreal has some skilled forwards, but I think for the Wild to get through these guys, they will need to match the physical play start to finish.

Let's go Wild!
 

[bbgarnett]

I don't even know if I can totally blame Talbot on that goal, Puck was rolling when Hoffman shot it.

Edited January 25, 2022 by bbgarnett

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

2 minutes ago, bbgarnett said:

I don't even know if I can totally blame Talbot on that goal, Puck was rolling when Hoffman shot it.

 

Meh...when in doubt, blame Talbot.  

[Jimtown guy]

Spurgeon!!!!

[bbgarnett]

Spurgeon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

Tidal Spurge warning....

Tie score!

[Jimtown guy]

Just now, TropicalFruitGirl26 said:

 

Meh...when in doubt, blame Talbot.  

The novice hockey fan always blames the goalie 

[bbgarnett]

4 minutes ago, TropicalFruitGirl26 said:

 

Meh...when in doubt, blame Talbot.  

 

Nah I'll still blame Suter or Koivu or even Mike Yeo.  

Edited January 25, 2022 by bbgarnett

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

1 minute ago, Jimtown guy said:

The novice hockey fan always blames the goalie 

 

While not a novice hockey fan, I won't necessarily blame the goalie.
Just Talbot specifically. 

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

1 minute ago, bbgarnett said:

 

Nah I'll still blame Suter or Koivu or even Mike Yeo.  

 

People still do that, actually...haha

[bbgarnett]

Also FU Doug Risebrough/scouts and your horrible drafting.