Minnesota Wild vs Pittsburgh Penguins, Thursday 3-31-22, 7:00pm, Xcel Energy Center

[MNSOTA]

https://thesportsdaily.com/2022/03/31/game-preview-minnesota-wild-vs-pittsburgh-penguins-3-31-22-700pm-cst-at-xcel-energy-center/

 

Minnesota Wild (41-20-4)  86pts  2nd in the Central

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

3.06 Goals Against Per Game (19th in the NHL)

 

20.5% Power Play (19th in the NHL)

76.2% Penalty Kill (22nd in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #97 Kirill Kaprizov ~ 37G 45A = 82pts

2. #36 Mats Zuccarello ~ 19G 48A = 67pts

3. #22 Kevin Fiala ~ 23G 37A = 60pts

4. #38 Ryan Hartman ~ 27G 23A = 50pts

5. #14 Joel Eriksson Ek ~ 19G 18A = 37pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #17 Marcus Foligno ~ 105 PIM's

2. #44 Nic Deslauriers ~ 95 PIM's*

3. #21 Brandon Duhaime ~ 80 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #33 Cam Talbot (27-12-1)  2.80GAA  .911SV%  2SO

2. #29 Marc-Andre Fleury (21-21-5)  2.88GAA  .909SV%  4SO**

 

*- includes stats accrued in his time with Anaheim

**- includes stats accrued in his time with Chicago

 

 

Vs.

 

 

Pittsburgh Penguins (40-18-10)  90pts  3rd in the Metropolitan

 

3.29 Goals For Per Game (9th in the NHL)

2.59 Goals Against Per Game (4th in the NHL)

 

22.2% Power Play (13th in the NHL)

85.8% Penalty Kill (2nd in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #87 Sidney Crosby ~ 25G 45A = 70pts

2. #59 Jake Guentzel ~ 31G 34A = 65pts

3. #58 Kris Letang ~ 7G 51A = 58pts

4. #17 Bryan Rust ~ 22G 33A = 55pts

5. #9 Evan Rodrigues ~ 17G 23A = 40pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #58 Kris Letang ~ 43 PIM's

2. #59 Jake Guentzel ~ 40 PIM's

3. #28 Marcus Pettersson ~ 32 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #35 Tristan Jarry (33-14-6)  2.33GAA  .921SV%  4SO

2. #1 Casey DeSmith (6-4-4)  2.96GAA  .905SV%  2SO

[ClusterChuck]

Even tho the home fans would love to see Fluery again, It's hard to not keep rotating given Talbot's win streak.
I agree that the signing of Fluery has both relaxed Talbot and given him a boost to compete at a higher level.
Even if the streaks come to an end tonight, It has been a helluva homestand and needed points.
Would like to get at least 1 point but why not hit the road with another OT thriller.
Wild Win 3-2.

Good time to hit the road to get some team unity with all the new guys too.

[Alexandron]

No doubt not an easy game against this team. I am predicting Wild win 5:4 , maybe in OT.

[wildstars95]

my prediction is 4-3 wild 

[wildstars95]

    knukcles looks a little rough out there

[wildstars95]

uh oh 

[Jimtown guy]

Dumba!!!!!

[ClusterChuck]

That's in !!

[wildstars95]

dumba

[Jimtown guy]

1 minute ago, ClusterChuck said:

That's in !!

Could see it was in right away 

[ClusterChuck]

Jost is really hustling tonight. Glad to see that.

[Tomdog]

He does have better movement than sturm

[Jimtown guy]

1 minute ago, ClusterChuck said:

Jost is really hustling tonight. Glad to see that.

Maybe a state was mentioned to him. Iowa

[Tomdog]

I think Jost decided that since he can't get in sink with his linemates he'll try to cary the puck for himself

[bbgarnett]

Hey all just got home, saw we got scored on early and was like maybe I don't want to watch the game, But looks like they've not given in.

[bbgarnett]

4 minutes ago, Tomdog said:

I think Jost decided that since he can't get in sink with his linemates he'll try to cary the puck for himself

[Jimtown guy]

[Tomdog]

well done BB

[ClusterChuck]

Good 1st and 3+ grade A chances.

[ClusterChuck]

7 minutes ago, Tomdog said:

He does have better movement than sturm

Hopefully that continues and he gets more results from the effort than Sturm did.

Edited April 1, 2022 by ClusterChuck

[bbgarnett]

https://www.nhl.com/video/aho-aho-score-34-seconds-apart/t-277350912/c-11162882

 

[ClusterChuck]

Can't keep doing that Duhaime

[bbgarnett]

thanks Duhaime 

[Jimtown guy]

Son of a …..

[bbgarnett]

of course Dumba standing around doing nothing.