Minnesota Wild @ Vancouver Canucks, Saturday 12-10-22, 9:00pm, Rogers Arena

[MNSOTA]

Minnesota Wild   (13-11-2)   28pts   4th in Central Division

 

3.08 Goals per Game (18th in NHL)

3.19 Goals Against per Game (17th in NHL)

24.1% Power Play (11th in NHL)

78.2% Penalty Kill (17th in NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #97 Kirill Kaprizov ~ 17G 17A = 34pts

2. #36 Mats Zuccarello ~ 9G 17A = 26pts

3. #14 Joel Eriksson Ek ~ 10G 13A = 23 pts

4. #12 Matt Boldy ~ 9G 9A = 18pts

5. #2 Calen Addison ~ 2G 12A = 14pts

 

Top 3 Penalty Minutes:

1. #17 Marcus Foligno ~ 37PIMs

2. #5 Jake Middleton ~ 36PIMs

3. #15 Mason Shaw ~ 30PIMs

 

Goaltenders:

1. #29 Marc-Andre Fleury ~ (9-7-1)   3.16GAA   .892SV%

2. #32 Filip Gustavsson ~ (4-4-1)   2.75GAA   .909SV%

 

vs

 

Vancouver Canucks   (12-12-3)   27pts   6th in Pacific Division

 

3.59 Goals per Game (6th in NHL)

3.89 Goals Against per Game (30th in NHL)

28.1% Power Play (6th in NHL)

68.7% Penalty Kill (22nd in NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #40 Elias Pettersson ~ 13G 21A = 34pts

2. #53 Bo Horvat ~ 20G 9A = 29pts

3. #9 J.T. Miller ~ 11G 15A = 26pts

4. #96 Andrei Kuzamenko ~ 13G 12A = 25pts

5. #43 Quinn Hughes ~ 0G 25A = 25pts

 

Top 3 Penalty Minutes:

1. #2 Luke Schenn ~ 44PIMs

2. #57 Tyler Myers ~ 41PIMs

3. #81 Dakota Joshua ~ 37PIMs

 

Goaltenders:

1. #30 Spencer Martin ~ (8-2-1)   3.48GAA   .890SV%

2. #60 Collin Delia ~ (1-0-0).  2.77GAA   .882SV%

 

 

Lines:

 

Vancouver Canucks

 

Hoglander - Horvat - Miller

Mikheyev - Pettersson - Boeser

Kuzmenko - Studnicka - Garland

Aman - Lazar - Joshua

 

Ekman-Larsson - Bear

Hughes - Schenn

Stillman - Myers

 

Martin

Delia

 

Minnesota Wild

 

Kaprizov - Steel - Zuccarello

Petan - Gaudreau - Boldy

Greenway - Eriksson Ek - Foligno

Shaw - Dewar - Reaves

 

Middleton - Spurgeon

Brodin - Dumba

Goligoski - Merrill

 

Gustavsson

Fleury

 

 

[wildstars95]

  This wildeth franchise......maketh me smoketh

                                                  4-3 cannot's tonight 

[Alexandron]

According to Russo, Walker will have his debut tonight in a 2nd line under #74.  Petan will sit. In my opinion, Dumba should sit too. And Sustr should come here from Iowa. I would like to predict our win 5:4 in OT. I think it is going to be an interesting game from both sides. Hope EEK will repeat his the most fantastic goal as he did yesterday. Wish to see more goals from Steel, Shaw, Boldy, Dewar.

[ClusterChuck]

Need to salvage some points from Canada.
4-3 Wild Win. 

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

Penalties taken in this game should be interesting....neither team is particularly good on the PK, and both are good to great on the PP.
Vancouver is a top 5 PP if going by efficiency.

Goalies are gonna have to play a huge part to offset some of that stuff.
Who does their part better? Gus....or Martin?

We shall see...

[ClusterChuck]

5 minutes ago, TropicalFruitGirl26 said:

Penalties taken in this game should be interesting....neither team is particularly good on the PK, and both are good to great on the PP.
Vancouver is a top 5 PP if going by efficiency.

Goalies are gonna have to play a huge part to offset some of that stuff.
Who does their part better? Gus....or Martin?

We shall see...

Have you been watching lately?  

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

Just now, ClusterChuck said:

Have you been watching lately?  

Ok, well, you got me.
My viewership of Wild games lately has been spotty.

Going strictly by stat sheets.  

I have watched a good portion of Vancouver games, and man, as lethal as their offense can be, their defense and their propensity to give up  leads, especially late, is appalling.
Something the Wild can look to take advantage of, should they find themselves down.

[ClusterChuck]

37 minutes ago, Alexandron said:

According to Russo, Walker will have his debut tonight in a 2nd line under #74.  Petan will sit. In my opinion, Dumba should sit too. And Sustr should come here from Iowa. I would like to predict our win 5:4 in OT. I think it is going to be an interesting game from both sides. Hope EEK will repeat his the most fantastic goal as he did yesterday. Wish to see more goals from Steel, Shaw, Boldy, Dewar.

That was probably the prettiest goal by a solo effort all season.
Aside from Kap ofc. 

[ClusterChuck]

Love the grannies in the background 

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

Haha @ LaPanta ... "Hog-lander"
Anthony...it's "Hoague-lander".
Cmon...you're a professional..  

[Math]

Chabot today. If the Wild is pissed, don't do it like that

 

 

[Tomdog]

I just hope I don't have to go looking for ugly pictures again.

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

I was gonna say I am impressed by Kaprizov going to the front of the net, in the down n dirty and rough parts of town (and it normally WOULD be impressive)...but Vancouver has to have one of the softest defenses in the league.
That part of town is like Easy Street when they are patrolling it.  

[Tomdog]

Gologoski out for Addison tonight.

Give the old man a rest tonight and then Dumba a few nights off to watch from the pressbox.

[ClusterChuck]

Lift that thing. 

[ClusterChuck]

4th line makes it fun.
I still say reaves gets a goal before he fights.

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

Kap may be one of those players like Nikita Kucherov in Tampa Bay whom you don't figure to have a ton of physical strength relative to the competition he is facing....but DOES.
Kap just hit big Luke Schenn cleanly along the boards and rocked the big man.

Schenn goes about 220-225 and Kap hit him like he was a flyweight.

[Tomdog]

Kind of a typical Russian? Built like a fire hydrant?

[bbgarnett]

wow 3 on 1 and we couldn't convert 

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

3 on 1 for the Wild just now.... too bad it was Reaves and the 4th line with the rush and not a top six line.

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

Just now, Tomdog said:

Kind of a typical Russian? Built like a fire hydrant?

 

Yea...fair to say.
Just doesn't look like the type of player that can take a bunch of abuse, much less dish it out, but Kap takes it...and gives it.

[Tomdog]

I definitley have more lag time than you guys.

[ClusterChuck]

It was still a decent feed from Reaves. 
should've shot tho.

[ClusterChuck]

C'mon Greenway pay attention. Slacking caused the offsides.

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

Here we go...MIN PP against the lowly VAN PK units....