Minnesota Wild vs Vancouver Canucks, Thursday 3-24-22, 7:00pm, Xcel Energy Center

[MNSOTA]

https://thesportsdaily.com/2022/03/24/game-preview-minnesota-wild-vs-vancouver-canucks-3-24-22-700pm-cst-at-xcel-energy-center/

 

Minnesota Wild (37-20-4)  78pts  3rd in the Central

3.66 Goals For Per Game (4th in the NHL)

3.15 Goals Against Per Game (20th in the NHL)

19.6% Power Play (20th in the NHL)

76.3% Penalty Kill (23rd in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #97 Kirill Kaprizov ~ 32G 44A = 76pts

2. #36 Mats Zuccarello ~ 19G 43A = 62pts

3. #22 Kevin Fiala ~ 20G 35A = 55pts

4. #38 Ryan Hartman ~ 26G 21A = 47pts

5. #17 Marcus Foligno ~ 19G 14A = 33pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #17 Marcus Foligno ~ 100 PIMs

2. #44 Nic Deslauriers ~ 90 PIMs*

3. #21 Brandon Duhaime ~ 80 PIMs

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #33 Cam Talbot (25-12-1)  2.84GAA  .910SV%  2SO

2. #29 Marc-Andre Fleury (19-21-5)  2.95GAA  .908SV%  4SO**

*- denotes stats include Deslauriers' time with Anaheim

**-denotes stats include Fleury's time with Chicago

 

Vs.

 

Vancouver Canucks (31-26-8)  70pts  5th in the Pacific

2.82 Goals For Per Game (22nd in the NHL)

2.83 Goals Against Per Game (12th in the NHL)

21.4% Power Play (14th in the NHL)

71.6% Penalty Kill (32nd in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #9 J.T. Miller ~ 26G 51A = 77pts

2. #43 Quinn Hughes ~ 5G 46A = 51pts

3. #40 Elias Pettersson ~ 18G 26A = 44pts

4. #53 Bo Horvat ~ 24G 18A = 42pts

5. #6 Brock Boeser ~ 19G 18A = 37pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #57 Tyler Myers ~ 54 PIMs

2. #2 Luke Schenn ~ 40 PIMs

3. #9 J.T. Miller ~ 39 PIMs

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #35 Thatcher Demko (27-19-4)  2.68GAA  .916SV%  1SO

2. #41 Jaroslav Halak (3-6-2)  3.19GAA  .894SV%

[wildstars95]

a nice 5-2 victory would be cool 

[ClusterChuck]

I'll go 4-2 Wild.
Interested to see a fired up Middleton to show what he can do Policing the crease area.
DLO will get his chance to fight but only if other's pester our stars. Eventually we'll get to see his Police tactics. 

[ClusterChuck]

Talbot gets the start, Makes sense off of his last bunch of games.
If we were going on the road, We'd probably see Fluery tonight for the fans.

[bbgarnett]

DLO for MVP and can't wait to see Middleton. Canucks stunned the Avs in Denver last night so are riding high but let's hope tonight is a let down for them and we take advantage of some tired legs.

 

3-2 Wild

Edited March 25, 2022 by bbgarnett

[ClusterChuck]

And just for fun be it us or the refs, Get Bodreau all fired up 
 

[bbgarnett]

Surprised they took Kulikov out over Merill or Goose.

 

[bbgarnett]

fack

[ClusterChuck]

Big save and then nobody home to help.

[bbgarnett]

seriously quit puck watching

[bbgarnett]

3 minutes ago, ClusterChuck said:

Big save and then nobody home to help.

yeah Talbot left out to dry

[ClusterChuck]

Pointless fight by Foligno. Was he marking his territory? 

[bbgarnett]

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

[ClusterChuck]

Nice !!

[bbgarnett]

wow Walz his name isn't Kuchairoff

[wildstars95]

 looks like all games going from now are going to be shot blocking box out

grungy ,dirty sloppy seconds hard to get the net games till the last wild game .....

[ClusterChuck]

Schenn may meet up  with DLO soon. 

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

Wes Walz sounds fascinated that the Wild put up more shots due to winning face offs.

Yea, Wes...that's how it works.
Called puck possession.
Teams that can generate more of it, tend to get more offensive chances. 

[bbgarnett]

3 minutes ago, TropicalFruitGirl26 said:

Wes Walz sounds fascinated that the Wild put up more shots due to winning face offs.

Yea, Wes...that's how it works.
Called puck possession.
Teams that can generate more of it, tend to get more offensive chances. 

He also called Kucherov Kuchairoff.

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

1 minute ago, bbgarnett said:

He also called Kucherov Kuchairoff.

 

Yea, well, in Walz' defense there, who really knows who that "no name" is anyways  

[bbgarnett]

3 minutes ago, TropicalFruitGirl26 said:

 

Yea, well, in Walz' defense there, who really knows who that "no name" is anyways  

Yeah hard to get to know guys names when there always on Injured reserve 

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

Wild may do well to force a bit of rough stuff on these Canucks.

Vancouver has some nice talent, and are fun to watch, but are among one of the softer teams in the league, certain players aside, and subject to some physicality and gooning against them.

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

Just now, bbgarnett said:

Yeah hard to get to know guys names when there always on Injured reserve 

 

Oh sure.
Nevermind that the guy was a known quantity well before that.  

[wildstars95]

ha that tyler myers guy's head scraping the rafters

[bbgarnett]

well time for dinner having Kielbasa here.