Minnesota Wild @ Montreal Canadiens, Tuesday 10-25-22, 6:00pm, Bell Centre

[MNSOTA]

Minnesota Wild (1-3-1)  3pts  7th in the Central

 

3.80 Goals For Per Game (6th in the NHL)

5.40 Goals Against Per Game (32nd in the NHL)

 

36.4% Power Play (2nd in the NHL)

75% Penalty Kill (22nd in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #36 Mats Zuccarello ~ 4G 6A = 10pts

2. #97 Kirill Kaprizov ~ 4G 4A = 8pts

3. #12 Matt Boldy ~ 3G 3A = 6pts

4. #2 Calen Addison ~ 0G 6A = 6pts

5. #14 Joel Eriksson Ek ~ 2G 1A = 3pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #17 Marcus Foligno ~ 11 PIM's

2. #14 Joel Eriksson Ek ~ 8 PIM's

3. #5 Jacob Middleton ~ 8 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #29 Marc-Andre Fleury (1-1-1)  5.25GAA  .847%

2. #32 Filip Gustavsson (0-2-0)  5.06GAA  .860%

 

 

Vs.

 

 

Montreal Canadiens (3-3-0)  6pts  8th in the Atlantic

 

2.67 Goals For Per Game (27th in the NHL)

3.00 Goals Against Per Game (14th in the NHL)

 

5.6% Power Play (31st in the NHL)

83.3% Penalty Kill (11th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #14 Nick Suzuki ~ 3G 4A = 7pts

2. #22 Cole Caufield ~ 4G 1A = 5pts

3. #91 Sean Monahan ~ 2G 2A = 4pts

4. #72 Arber Xhekaj ~ 1G 2A = 3pts

5. #77 Kirby Dach ~ 1G 2A = 3pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #72 Arber Xhekaj ~ 13 PIM's

2. #21 Kaiden Guhle ~ 7 PIM's

3. #11 Brendan Gallagher ~ 6 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #34 Jake Allen (2-2-0)  2.77GAA  .913%

2. #35 Sam Montembeault (1-1-0)  2.48GAA  .912%

 

Lines:

 

Montreal Canadiens

 

Caufield~N. Suzuki~Monahan

Dadonov~Dvorak~Gallagher

Drouin~Dach~J. Anderson

R. Pitlick~Evans~Hoffman

 

K. Guhle~Savard

Harris~Kovacevic

Xhekaj~Wideman

 

Allen

Montembeault

 

Minnesota Wild

 

Kaprizov~Hartman~Zuccarello

Jost~Eriksson Ek~M. Foligno

F. Gaudreau~Rossi~Boldy

Dewar~Steel~Duhaime

 

Brodin~Dumba

Middleton~Spurgeon

Merrill~Addison

 

Fleury

Gustavsson

[MNSOTA]

Yesterday, Russo Tweeted new defensive pairings. Not sure if they'll be what we see tonight, or will simply fall back on what we've been using and hasn't been working. Anyway, here's what was at practice yesterday:

 

Middleton-Spurgeon

Brodin-Addison

Merrill-Dumba

[IllaZilla]

That's not a very scary defense...

[Math]

I've just heard a segment with former Habs and Flyers coach Michel Therrien. According to him the main problem is the defensive structure in front of Fleury and you can't put all on Fleury's shoulder (ok, little bias there). And the Wild is dead-last in the league for the most quality scoring chances allowed, which means that goaltending actually prevented more goals to be scored against.

 

I've watched Montréal in Centre Bell last Saturday. Their season start is better than expected and this young team in rebuilding mode is playing paradoxally without any pressure. They can rely on a strong first line but besides that, they don't have depth, the defense is light and unexperienced and their overall goaltending is suspicious. It's the kind of team that benefits a lot from the crowd but they are also prone to make a lot of rookie mistakes, lots of turnovers and bad assignments. If the Wild stay disciplined and has a good start, things are gonna be ok.

[Alexandron]

I am predicting the Wild win with a score 5:4 in regulation(or in OT).

[Jimtown guy]

Going to miss most if not all of this one and games in the future as my coaching duties started last night with my peewee tryouts. As always I’ll go through the thread to know how it went. Appreciate you guys

[ClusterChuck]

8 hours ago, MNSOTA said:

Yesterday, Russo Tweeted new defensive pairings. Not sure if they'll be what we see tonight, or will simply fall back on what we've been using and hasn't been working. Anyway, here's what was at practice yesterday:

 

Middleton-Spurgeon

Brodin-Addison

Merrill-Dumba

Heard the same chatter on K-Fan today about line shake ups.
I like the split of Brodin-Dumba. Give Dumba more responsibility as the so-called leader and free up Brodin from babysitting duties. 
Wild win 5-3 

[bbgarnett]

4-3 Canadiens in OT

[bbgarnett]

3 hours ago, Jimtown guy said:

Going to miss most if not all of this one and games in the future as my coaching duties started last night with my peewee tryouts. As always I’ll go through the thread to know how it went. Appreciate you guys

Appreciate you as well with all your funny memes and hopefully the tradition of posting said images after a win.

[bbgarnett]

come on Addy absolutely no need for that 

[bbgarnett]

EEK!!!!!!!!!!

Edited October 25, 2022 by bbgarnett

[wildstars95]

[ClusterChuck]

Heads up play by Ek !!

[wildstars95]

that jack eye kid is a tough hombre ... just sayin

[ClusterChuck]

Creating a lot of chances, Now it would be nice to cash in a few.

[wildstars95]

alway's nice to keep that barn  quiet 

[ClusterChuck]

Looked like they were forcing the same set play over and over. Each time being easier to break up.

[TallyTigerShark]

So I’m watching the game on TV, but I have to take the dog for a short walk outside. What has happened to the audio link of the game on the nhl.com app? I no longer see a link to start the audio feed. Did they take this away?

[EmptyShelf]

  How do they look    ?

[bbgarnett]

LOL WTF

[EmptyShelf]

Yish.  Not a good goal for the Habs

[ClusterChuck]

9 minutes ago, EmptyShelf said:

  How do they look    ?

Decent until that goal.

[bbgarnett]

 Duhaime!!!!!!!!!!!

[ClusterChuck]

Nice !! 1 pass-1 shot...Goal.
Instead of 14 to 1 pass-shot prior.

[Alexandron]

Duhaime !!!