Minnesota Wild vs Arizona Coyotes, Tuesday 4-26-22, 7:00pm, Xcel Energy Center

[MNSOTA]

https://thesportsdaily.com/2022/04/26/game-preview-minnesota-wild-vs-arizona-coyotes-4-26-22-700pm-cst-at-xcel-energy-center/

 

Minnesota Wild (51-21-7)  109pts  2nd in the Central

3.73 Goals For Per Game (5th in the NHL)

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

20.8% Power Play (16th in the NHL)

75.4% Penalty Kill (27th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #97 Kirill Kaprizov ~ 45G 58A = 103pts

2. #22 Kevin Fiala ~ 33G 51A = 84pts

3. #38 Ryan Hartman ~ 33G 29A = 62pts

4. #14 Joel Eriksson Ek ~ 25G 22A = 47pts

5. #89 Frederick Gaudreau ~ 13G 29A = 42pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #17 Marcus Foligno ~ 112 PIM's

2. #44 Nic Deslauriers ~ 111 PIM's*

3. #21 Brandon Duhaime ~ 105 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #33 Cam Talbot (31-12-4)  2.78GAA  .911%  3SO

2. #29 Marc-Andre Fleury (26-22-5)  2.90GAA  .909%  4SO*

 

Vs.

 

Arizona Coyotes (22-50-7)  51pts  8th in the Central

2.43 Goals For Per Game (32nd in the NHL)

3.78 Goals Against Per Game (30th in the NHL)

13.5% Power Play (30th in the NHL)

74.2% Penalty Kill (30th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #8 Nick Schmaltz ~ 23G 32A = 55pts

2. #81 Phil Kessel ~ 7G 42A = 49pts

3. #53 Shayne Gostisbehere ~ 11G 33A = 44pts

4. #72 Travis Boyd ~ 14G 18A = 32pts

5. #86 Anton Stralman ~ 6G 14A = 20pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #26 Antoine Roussel ~ 56 PIM's

2. #81 Phil Kessel ~ 40 PIM's

3. #75 Kyle Capobianco ~ 34 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #30 Harri Sateri (0-2-1)  5.88GAA  .822%

2. #70 Karel Vejmelka (12-32-3)  3.61GAA  .900%  1SO

[Jimtown guy]

It’s Kirill the Thrills birthday today so I’m going with a hatty for him and Wild win 6-1

 

 

[Tomdog]

No disrespect Minsota but I  think the Coyotes are not the ones stopping the move. 
Gary Bettman is the one stopping the move. For some reason he would rather have a terrible team, without a fan base, in Arizona than a good team anywhere else. 

[bbgarnett]

Three in a row for fleury 

 

 

[Wild Thing]

The Wild will roll tonight with a 5-1 victory and Fiala will get a hat trick. 

[MNSOTA]

4 hours ago, Tomdog said:

No disrespect Minsota but I  think the Coyotes are not the ones stopping the move. 
Gary Bettman is the one stopping the move. For some reason he would rather have a terrible team, without a fan base, in Arizona than a good team anywhere else. 

Whoever is blocking it, it doesn’t make sense. 

[Math]

For whatever reason, Buttman took all that circus around the Coyotes personally from the day the League bought the franchise. So he would do anything to keep them there, just to show he's right. He just don't care anymore if keeping them in AZ make sense or not and you can't make a donkey drink if he's not thirsty.

 

On another hand, I'm a bit crazy but I still think the NHL can be successful there. AZ is still a large market and a good sports market in general. However, the Coyotes did more or less everything wrong from the day they arrived in the desert and the franchise still have this burden on its back. The move in Glendale was an epic failure and a huge mistake on top of that. I still think (well in theory now) that this team could (or could have been) work there with decent ownership and management that put a good product on the ice on a constant basis. It's still a non traditional market so you have to be good year after year given the versatile fanbase.

 

 

[wildstars95]

  The coyotes dig more holes for rinks..... than a clan of gophers

6-2 wild only if they aren't thinking of the last 2 losses of the regular season 

[Tomdog]

Arizona has a dumpster fire of a front office. It really seems like they can't make up their minds on a direction for the club, so they just develop talent and then ship it off.

 

Fleury witha 3rd start? Is Talbot dinged or are they resting their playoff starter?, because I don't see Fleury's play deserving to be our #1. 

[ClusterChuck]

Weird Fleury starts  Trying to sharpen his game and rest Talbot even more...Hmmm
I'll go Wild Win 6-3
 

[ClusterChuck]

The Wild and Blues have known they're going to face each other so now it's like they're having an apendage swinging contest with each other every night.
Take that !!...Oh Yeah??...Take That !!!

[Tomdog]

Let's hope Colorado gives the Blues a beating tonight.

[bbgarnett]

Also game is on The CW channel 8 here in the twin cities on Comcast 23 on antenna.

 

Edited April 27, 2022 by bbgarnett

[Wild Thing]

Does anyone know if Spurgeon is in the lineup tonight? 

[bbgarnett]

5 minutes ago, Wild Thing said:

Does anyone know if Spurgeon is in the lineup tonight? 

 

 

Edited April 27, 2022 by bbgarnett

[Wild Thing]

Thanks, Jordie taking his place. 

[ClusterChuck]

16 minutes ago, Wild Thing said:

Thanks, Jordie taking his place. 

From what they said, Injury not as bad as 1st thought and should be ready for PO's.

[Tomdog]

Is there any word on Dumba being ready for the payoffs?

[Wild Thing]

Just now, ClusterChuck said:

From what they said, Injury not as bad as 1st thought and should be ready for PO's.

Yeah. just heard that. That is positive news. Getting the club back to full strength or as close as possible for the playoffs is crucial.

 

[bbgarnett]

Heartsy!!!!!!!!!

[Tomdog]

Hartman!!!!

[ClusterChuck]

Big effort by Hartman !!

[Wild Thing]

HARTMAN!!!!!!!!

[Jimtown guy]

Hartsy!!!!!

[Tomdog]

What a bargain Hartman has been.