Minnesota Wild @ Washington Capitals, Sunday 4-3-22, 6:00pm, Verizon Center

[MNSOTA]

https://thesportsdaily.com/2022/04/03/game-preview-minnesota-wild-vs-washington-capitals-4-3-22-600pm-cst-at-verizon-center/

 

Minnesota Wild (42-20-5)  89pts  2nd in the Central

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

3.04 Goals Against Per Game (18th in the NHL)

20.9% Power Play (18th in the NHL)

76.5% Penalty Kill (22nd in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #97 Kirill Kaprizov ~ 39G 45A = 85pts

2. #36 Mats Zuccarello ~ 20G 49A = 69pts

3. #22 Kevin Fiala ~ 23G 38A = 61pts

4. #38 Ryan Hartman ~ 27G 25A = 52pts

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 ~ 84 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #33 Cam Talbot (27-12-2)  2.83GAA  .911SV%  2SO

2. #29 Marc-Andre Fleury (22-21-5)  2.88GAA  .909SV%  4SO**

 

Vs.

 

Washington Capitals (37-21-10)  84pts  4th in the Metropolitan

3.24 Goals For Per Game (12th in the NHL)

2.87 Goals Against Per Game (11th in the NHL)

19.5% Power Play (21st in the NHL)

80.8% Penalty Kill (12th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #8 Alexander Ovechkin ~ 42G 36A = 78pts

2. #92 Evgeny Kuznetsov ~ 22G 43A = 65pts

3. #74 John Carlson ~ 11G 44A = 55pts

4. #43 Tom Wilson ~ 21G 26A = 47pts

5. #43 Conor Sheary ~ 16G 18A = 34pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #43 Tom Wilson ~ 85 PIM's

2. #21 Garnet Hathaway ~ 51 PIM's

3. #9 Dmitry Orlov ~ 42 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #31 Ilya Samsonov (19-9-4)  2.95GAA  .899%  3SO

2. #41 Vitek Vanecek (17-10-5)  2.56GAA  .914%  3SO

[Jimtown guy]

Glad the boys proved me wrong last night. So I will stick with that theme for tonight’s game. Caps 4 Wild 2

[bbgarnett]

4-3 Caps in OT

[Alexandron]

Glad the Wild didn't prove me wrong in our win last night. Hope in same outcome tonight. Wild win 5:4 , maybe in OT. Still will be happy  to get at least 1 point out of this game. Why I predicted such a high score? Because of opposite team capability and our goalie ability. Talbot is in net tonight. Like our fans determined we should have at least 5 points from these 4 playoffs teams on road games.2 points we already have and 3 more we need.

[ClusterChuck]

Hopefully there's gas left in the tank.
I'd like to see Kap show off in front of his idol Ovi and outshine him.
I'll take a Wild Win of 5-3.
 

[SaucyJack]

49 minutes ago, ClusterChuck said:

 

Hopefully there's gas left in the tank.

 

I wish I’d be able to watch more of this one later tonight. I’ve been hard on “my” Caps lately and am curious how they’ll do after their Hurri-drubbing.

 

Wild fans - you can blame the schedule makers if you lose.  This is Minnesota’s fourth game in the past six days, whereas it is Washington’s first.  “Holy rest-time imbalance, Batman!”

[wildstars95]

1 point at least 4-3 wild  o.t 

[ClusterChuck]

12 minutes ago, SaucyJack said:

I wish I’d be able to watch more of this one later tonight. I’ve been hard on “my” Caps lately and am curious how they’ll do after their Hurri-drubbing.

 

Wild fans - you can blame the schedule makers if you lose.  This is Minnesota’s fourth game in the past six days, whereas it is Washington’s first.  “Holy rest-time imbalance, Batman!”

We're kind of used to unbalanced schedules and tend to play better than when we have extended days off. 

[wildstars95]

knuckles or moose could be busy tonight ....stay tuned 

[bbgarnett]

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

[Jimtown guy]

Double E!!!!!!!

[Tomdog]

13 minutes ago, SaucyJack said:

I wish I’d be able to watch more of this one later tonight. I’ve been hard on “my” Caps lately and am curious how they’ll do after their Hurri-drubbing.

 

Wild fans - you can blame the schedule makers if you lose.  This is Minnesota’s fourth game in the past six days, whereas it is Washington’s first.  “Holy rest-time imbalance, Batman!”

This schedule thing is pretty much a normal thing. Every year it seems the wild have weeks of 1 game and end the season playing constantly.

[ClusterChuck]

EK !!

[wildstars95]

now that's a start 

[Tomdog]

Great way to start the game.

[Tomdog]

And we get Lou tonight

[bbgarnett]

Jost!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Jimtown guy]

Jost with his first for the Wild!!!!

[ClusterChuck]

Holy Cr4p...Jost

[bbgarnett]

2 shots 2 goals

[wildstars95]

ha let them walk in ... why not a shooting gallory 

[EmptyShelf]

Just now, Jimtown guy said:

Jost with his first for the Wild!!!!

 +   = 2 Gs

[wildstars95]

 shocking isn't it

[bbgarnett]

Talbot's way to slow on his lateral movements 

[wildstars95]

2 minutes ago, bbgarnett said:

Talbot's way to slow on his lateral movements