Minnesota Wild @ Dallas Stars, Sunday 12-4-22, 2:00pm, American Airlines Center

[MNSOTA]

Minnesota Wild (12-9-2)  26pts  4th in the Central

 

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

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

 

25.7 % Power Play (10th in the NHL)

78.7% Penalty Kill (11th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #97 Kirill Kaprizov ~ 15G 16A = 31pts

2. #36 Mats Zuccarello ~ 8G 14A = 22pts

3. #14 Joel Eriksson Ek ~ 8G 12A = 20pts

4. #12 Matt Boldy ~ 9G 8A = 17pts

5. #2 Calen Addison ~ 2G 10A = 12pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #17 Marcus Foligno ~ 37 PIM's

2. #26 Connor Dewar ~ 29 PIM's

3. #5 Jacob Middleton ~ 29 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #29 Marc-Andre Fleury (8-5-1)  2.92GAA  .898%  1SO

2. #32 Filip Gustavsson (4-4-1)  2.62GAA  .914%

 

 

Vs.

 

 

Dallas Stars (14-6-4)  32pts  1st in the Central

 

3.88 Goals For Per Game (2nd in the NHL)

2.71 Goals Against Per Game (7th in the NHL)

 

30.0% Power Play (2nd in the NHL)

83.9% Penalty Kill (3rd in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #21 Jason Robertson ~ 22G 17A = 39pts

2. #14 Jamie Benn ~ 10G 16A = 26pts

3. #24 Roope Hintz ~ 8G 18A = 26pts

4. #16 Joe Pavelski ~ 10G 15A = 25pts

5. #91 Tyler Seguin ~ 4G 15A = 19pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #27 Mason Marchment ~ 40 PIM's

2. #11 Adam Glendening ~ 35 PIM's

3. #2 Jani Hakanpaa ~ 32 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #29 Jake Oettinger (9-2-3)  2.35GAA .923%  2SO

2. #41 Scott Wedgewood (5-4-1)  3.07GAA  .906%

 

Lines:

 

Dallas Stars

 

J. Robertson~Hintz~Pavelski

Marchment~Faksa~Seguin

Ja.Benn~Johnston~Dellandrea

Kiviranta~Glendening~Gurianov

 

R. Suter~Heiskanen

Lindell~Hakanpaa

Hanley~Miller

 

Oettinger

Wedgewood

 

Minnesota Wild

 

Kaprizov~Steel~Zuccarello

Petan~F. Gaudreau~Boldy

Greenway~Eriksson Ek~M. Foligno

Shaw~Dewar~Reaves

 

Middleton~Spurgeon

Goligoski~Dumba

Merrill~Addison

 

Fleury

Gustavsson

[ClusterChuck]

Going to be a tough one especially with the travel after that extended grinding Ducks game.
Will have to shut down Robertson the way we pretty much shut down McD and Dr. Drai to have a chance. 

I'll go with the upset, Wild 4-3.

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

Time to take on the top team in the Central.
Go Wild!

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

I don't know which Wild player that was that tried rubbing out Esa Lindell along the boards, but he needs to work on timing.

He made Lindell look like McDavid 

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

The Un-Johnny with a shot at Oettinger....and he was stopped of course.  

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

I'd really like to see Minnesota get one early here.
Dallas is turning the puck over a TON and getting away with it.

Of course, the problem seems to be they are getting TOO clean a shot here and there against Oettinger and he makes those easy stops.
Perhaps Wild shooters should try picking an upper corner? Oettinger seems to able to grab everything mid area and glove hand.

[ClusterChuck]

So far just some back hand chances. 

[ClusterChuck]

Guys look like not much strength trying to keep the puck on their sticks.

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

LOL...Suter with a nasty crosscheck on Reaves.

On the one hand, boooo Suter....ya dirty rat (then it looked like he hacked him near the head when he was down).
On the other hand...YAY Suter.... give Reaves some of his own medicine! 

Really am torn here...but oh hey, MIN PP....  

[ClusterChuck]

Suter LOL ...finally getting called for his usual cross checks. 

[ClusterChuck]

Kap *Ding* 
Our PP may have to adjust to the heavy pressure by the Stars. Not so much passing maybe...Get it to the net.

[ClusterChuck]

KAP !! Streak extends 
I lost count on the passes leading up to it.

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

Boldy had the right idea there....trying to pick a corner with his shot.
Unfortunately, he missed, but i like the attempt.

[Alexandron]

Too many penalties during the 1st period.

[ClusterChuck]

1 minute ago, TropicalFruitGirl26 said:

Boldy had the right idea there....trying to pick a corner with his shot.
Unfortunately, he missed, but i like the attempt.

Rather have seen Zucc shoot it low...Boldy in perfect spot for a rebound.
Ref's want to be active in this game.

[ClusterChuck]

1 minute ago, Alexandron said:

Too many penalties during the 1st period.

Yeah, The more PK's we have to defend the more tired we'll get by the 3rd period.

[Alexandron]

Personally for me it looks like a playoffs game.

[Math]

21 minutes ago, TropicalFruitGirl26 said:

LOL...Suter with a nasty crosscheck on Reaves.

 

I still don't know which one of the two I dislike the most. A typical stupid Suter's penalty but half forgiven I'd say...

[Alexandron]

Their 12 shots vs ours 7 during the 1st period.

[ClusterChuck]

I wonder how salty Suter still is with us. 

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

1 minute ago, ClusterChuck said:

I wonder how salty Suter still is with us. 

 

 

[Alexandron]

6 minutes ago, ClusterChuck said:

Yeah, The more PK's we have to defend the more tired we'll get by the 3rd period.

Hope it will not happened for us, but hope they will have more penalties. We need them to be more tired. Then we will have a higher chance to win. 

[ClusterChuck]

Heh... 4 assists and a -3 in 24 games...about right.

[Alexandron]

A tough game for us.

[ClusterChuck]

Too many giveaways...