Minnesota Wild vs New York Rangers, Tuesday 3-8-22, 7:00pm, Xcel Energy Center

[MNSOTA]

https://thesportsdaily.com/2022/03/08/game-preview-minnesota-wild-vs-new-york-rangers-3-8-22-700pm-cst-at-xcel-energy-center/

 

Minnesota Wild (32-19-3)  67pts  3rd in the Central

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

3.22 Goals Against Per Game (22nd in the NHL)

19.3% Power Play (19th in the NHL)

76.2% Penalty Kill (23rd in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #97 Kirill Kaprizov ~ 28G 42A = 70pts

2. #36 Mats Zuccarello ~ 17G 39A = 56pts

3. #22 Kevin Fiala ~ 18G 31A = 49pts

4. #38 Ryan Hartman ~ 22G 18A = 40pts

5. #17 Marcus Foligno ~ 18G 10A = 28pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #17 Marcus Foligno ~ 93 PIM's

2. #21 Brandon Duhaime ~ 75 PIM's

3. #38 Ryan Hartman ~ 61 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #33 Cam Talbot (20-12-1)  2.98GAA  .908SV%  1SO

2. #34 Kaapo Kahkonen (12-7-2)  2.86GAA  .912SV%

 

Vs.

 

New York Rangers (36-15-5)  77pts  2nd in the Metropolitan

2.95 Goals For Per Game (18th in the NHL)

2.45 Goals Against Per Game (3rd in the NHL)

25.5% Power Play (4th in the NHL)

83.3% Penalty Kill (7th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #10 Artemi Panarin ~ 15G 46A = 61pts

2. #93 Mika Zibanejad ~ 21G 36A = 57pts

3. #23 Adam Fox ~ 7G 48A = 55pts

4. #20 Chris Kreider ~ 38G 15A = 53pts

5. #16 Ryan Strome ~ 12G 27A = 39pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #8 Jacob Trouba ~ 78 PIM's

2. #16 Ryan Strome ~ 57 PIM's

3. #29 Dryden Hunt ~ 41 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #31 Igor Shesterkin (28-6-3)  1.93GAA  .942SV%  3SO

2. #40 Alexandar Georgiev (7-8-2)  3.05GAA  .897SV%

[Icechipper]

Greenway back tonight. Hope he's angry

[ClusterChuck]

Fearing a similar outcame as last game, I'd rather be playing a really good team and hope to squeeze out 2 points than expect to win against a lower team.
If they play with some pride and want to end the skid, I'll go with a Wild Win 4-3
(Really glad there's no Pick 'em challenge this year.  )

[bbgarnett]

yeah I'll say 5-3 wild 

[ClusterChuck]

Maybe the Rangers will start Georgiev 

Edited March 8, 2022 by ClusterChuck

[wildstars95]

6-4 rags 

[ClusterChuck]

Oh Ek ...Lift that thing.

[bbgarnett]

Merill you idiot 

[bbgarnett]

Heartsy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ClusterChuck]

Hartman !!

[Jimtown guy]

Hartman!!!!

what a crazy pace to this game 

[Jimtown guy]

4 minutes ago, bbgarnett said:

Merill you idiot 

I said dumbass but same thing 

[bbgarnett]

3 minutes ago, Jimtown guy said:

I said dumbass but same thing 

Well I could have said something worse but I held back

[ClusterChuck]

About the 3rd great chance already 

[ClusterChuck]

MOOSE 

[Jimtown guy]

Double E!!!!

[bbgarnett]

EEK!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ClusterChuck]

EK off a flutter

[EmptyShelf]

Couple of knuckle-pucks for goals.  I'll take him in the current morass.  Kap looks extremely fast and determined with the puck.  I think he is taking the losing personally.  I hope the goaltending (in this case, Talbott) feels the same.

[Jimtown guy]

It’s nice I finally get to watch a game and so far a good one. My peewee A team took 5th at state. Not what we wanted but they came back strong after an opening loss 

[EmptyShelf]

4 minutes ago, ClusterChuck said:

EK off a flutter

He bunted a change-up for the G

[ClusterChuck]

2 minutes ago, EmptyShelf said:

He bunted a change-up for the G

At least he didn't pop it up to the catcher.

[EmptyShelf]

Just now, Jimtown guy said:

It’s nice I finally get to watch a game and so far a good one. My peewee A team took 5th at state. Not what we wanted but they came back strong after an opening loss 

Welcome back to the 'Light Banter Lounge'.  It has been a bit of a roller-coaster since the Holiday - Winning in spite of ourselves, then losing because of ourselves.  We probably 'out kicked our coverage' during the winning streak, but we sure 'sullied the trousers' during the last 12 

[EmptyShelf]

Just now, ClusterChuck said:

At least he didn't pop it up to the catcher.

Nope.  That would be a Twins thing in the playoffs against the Yankees 

[EmptyShelf]

I liked the first....Let's not $hit ourselves with another abysmal second...