Minnesota Wild vs Florida Panthers, Friday 2-18-22, 7:00pm, Xcel Energy Center

[MNSOTA]

https://thesportsdaily.com/2022/02/18/game-preview-minnesota-wild-vs-florida-panthers-2-18-22-700pm-cst-at-xcel-energy-center/

 

Minnesota Wild (30-12-3)  63pts  2nd in the Central

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

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

20.3% Power Play (15th in the NHL)

79.7% Penalty Kill (16th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #97 Kirill Kaprizov ~ 22G 37A = 59pts

2. #36 Mats Zuccarello ~ 15G 33A = 48pts

3. #22 Kevin Fiala ~ 14G 23A = 37pts

4. #38 Ryan Hartman ~ 19G 15A = 33pts

5. #17 Marcus Foligno ~ 17G 10A = 27pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #17 Marcus Foligno ~ 87 PIM's

2. #21 Brandon Duhaime ~ 63 PIM's

3. #38 Ryan Hartman ~ 50 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #33 Cam Talbot (19-9-1)  2.86GAA  .912SV%  1SO

2. #34 Kaapo Kahkonen (11-3-2)  2.53GAA  .921SV%

 

 

Vs.

 

 

Florida Panthers (33-10-5)  71pts  1st in the Atlantic

4.06 Goals For Per Game (1st in the NHL)

2.88 Goals Against Per Game (15th in the NHL)

20.4% Power Play (14th in the NHL)

79.3% Penalty Kill (17th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #11 Jonathan Huberdeau ~ 17G 49A = 66pts

2. #13 Sam Reinhart ~ 17G 28A = 45pts

3. #5 Aaron Ekblad ~ 11G 32A = 43pts

4. #16 Aleksander Barkov ~ 22G 20A = 42pts

5. #23 Carter Verhaeghe ~ 15G 22A = 37pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #7 Radko Gudas ~ 57 PIM's

2. #94 Ryan Lomberg ~ 54 PIM's

3. #52 MacKenzie Weegar ~ 51 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #72 Sergei Bobrovsky (24-4-3)  2.54GAA  .919SV%  1SO

2. #35 Spencer Knight (9-6-2)  3.22GAA  .898SV%

[MNSOTA]

Well, I may have performed an appliance sacrifice in preparation for tonight's game.

 

Way back in August or September, we ordered a new stove. Our old one was a circa 1994 model, and considering the delay on appliances, we wanted to order ahead of time in case it died. Lately, it had been taking much longer for the oven to pre-heat...I would almost cry if I needed to pre-heat to 425, because it would take forever.

 

Just this morning, I now have a brand new, KitchenAid, glass top (yes, I prefer electric), double oven range in black stainless. It is a thing of absolute beauty. 

So out with the old, in with the new. Kind of like how this season has gone.

[lynxrattle]

A good article that Abbott piece. We have a lot to prove. And the performance against the Jets might be indicative of what our chances in the playoffs really are.

 

I still feel we might win the Cats. They are content playing a skillful and speedy game. We can hang with that kind of play. 4-3 OT win for the Wild.

[ClusterChuck]

3 hours ago, MNSOTA said:

Well, I may have performed an appliance sacrifice in preparation for tonight's game.

 

Way back in August or September, we ordered a new stove. Our old one was a circa 1994 model, and considering the delay on appliances, we wanted to order ahead of time in case it died. Lately, it had been taking much longer for the oven to pre-heat...I would almost cry if I needed to pre-heat to 425, because it would take forever.

 

Just this morning, I now have a brand new, KitchenAid, glass top (yes, I prefer electric), double oven range in black stainless. It is a thing of absolute beauty. 

So out with the old, in with the new. Kind of like how this season has gone.

That sounds exactly like our old one too 
We stayed with Electric also. Last forever for the most part.

We seem to play our best game with the top teams and after last game, Again I expect a full effort.
Both teams can score and can give up some goals so I'll go with a Wild win 5-4.

[wildstars95]

 talbot in tonight ... 6-3 cats 

[bbgarnett]

lets just say I left Talbot on my fantasy bench tonight.

[bbgarnett]

clank

[ClusterChuck]

Lol..Big Green Machine.
Glad to see Brodin NOT paired with Spurgeon, Just wasn't clicking.

[ClusterChuck]

1 hour ago, wildstars95 said:

 talbot in tonight ... 6-3 cats 

You were pretty quiet in his 4 straight games with a 1.20 GAA and a shutout...Must have been killing you. 

[bbgarnett]

damn what a move

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

Wild doing a good job baiting in the Panthers and hanging with them on the extracurriculars.

PP "Big Green Machine" 

[bbgarnett]

KK97!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bbgarnett]

what a pass 

[ClusterChuck]

Sweet goal

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

That set up....
Was...
A thing of beauty...

[bbgarnett]

I guess there giving the goal to Spurgeon. That's definitely getting changed 

[wildstars95]

4 minutes ago, ClusterChuck said:

You were pretty quiet in his 4 straight games with a 1.20 GAA and a shutout...Must have been killing you. 

look at the scrub teams sieve was in against

[bbgarnett]

LOL come on guys.

[wildstars95]

let the surge begin .....

[ClusterChuck]

C'mon Merril...Look 

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

FU, Merrill...Talbot...

Back to work for the Big Green Machine® (gonna trademark and run with that  )

1-1

[bbgarnett]

3 minutes ago, ClusterChuck said:

C'mon Merril...Look 

that but Talbot should have saved that too.

[ClusterChuck]

6 minutes ago, wildstars95 said:

look at the scrub teams sieve was in against

Rangers a scrub??
Pretty much same set of games that Kappo got thrn, He got the Caps and scrubs.

[bbgarnett]

WTF guys 

[wildstars95]

pull him now or it will be way to late