Minnesota Wild vs Detroit Red Wings, Wednesday 12-14-22, 6:30pm, Xcel Energy Center

[MNSOTA]

Minnesota Wild (15-11-2)  32pts  4th in the Central

 

3.04 Goals For Per Game (20th in the NHL)

3.00 Goals Against Per Game (15th in the NHL)

 

25.0% Power Play (8th in the NHL)

79.0% Penalty Kill (15th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #97 Kirill Kaprizov ~ 17G 18A = 35pts

2. #36 Mats Zuccarello ~ 9G 20A = 29pts

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

4. #12 Matt Boldy ~ 11G 10A = 21pts

5. #2 Calen Addison ~ 2G 13A = 15pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #17 Marcus Foligno ~ 42 PIM's

2. #5 Jacob Middleton ~ 36 PIM's

3. #15 Mason Shaw ~ 32 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #29 Marc-Andre Fleury (10-7-1)  3.05GAA  .895SV%  1SO

2. #32 Filip Gustavsson (5-4-1)  2.47GAA  .920SV%  1SO

 

 

Vs.

 

 

Detroit Red Wings (13-8-6)  32pts  4th in the Atlantic

 

2.96 Goals For Per Game (23rd in the NHL)

3.11 Goals Against Per Game (16th in the NHL)

 

21.4% Power Play (22nd in the NHL)

79.5% Penalty Kill (16th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #71 Dylan Larkin ~ 10G 17A = 27pts

2. #81 Dominik Kubalik ~ 10G 15A = 25pts

3. #17 Filip Hronek ~ 6G 18A = 24pts

4. #57 David Perron ~ 9G 12A = 21pts

5. #18 David Copp ~ 3G 14A = 17pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #17 Filip Hronek ~ 24 PIM's

2. #27 Michael Ramsussen ~ 21 PIM's

3. #70 Oskar Sundqvist ~ 18 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #35 Ville Husso (11-4-4)  2.56GAA  .916SV%  3SO

2. #39 Alex Nedeljkovic (2-4-2)  4.09GAA  .880SV%

 

Lines:

 

Detroit Red Wings

 

Perron~Larkin~Raymond

P. Suter~Rasmussen~Kubalik

Erne~Copp~Sundqvist

Berggren~Veleno~Czarnik

 

Chiarot~Seider

Walman~Hronek

Oesterle~Lindstrom

 

Husso

Nedeljkovic

 

Minnesota Wild

 

Kaprizov~Steel~Zuccarello

Sa. Walker~F. Gaudreau~Boldy

Greenway~Eriksson Ek~M. Foligno

Reaves~Dewar~Shaw

 

Middleton~Spurgeon

Brodin~Dumba

Merrill~Addison

 

Fleury

Gustavsson

[Icechipper]

Walker looked good the other night, what I saw. One Lou Nanne told Dan Barrario on KFAN Tuesday that Walker is the fastest skater on the Wild and among fastest in the league. Further said he may hold a spot even with eventual return of Hartman and Duhaime.....Detroit was my Original Six squad, so happy to see them finally icing a competitive hockey team......

[Tomdog]

Walker also looks very quick as well. He definitely deserves a longer look.

[Alexandron]

This team should be taken very seriously. Practically, they have same position in Atlantic Division as we are in Central: 4th place; 32 points. 1st game we lost on their ice (1:2). It should be a revenge game on our home ice. Predicting Wild win 4:3; probably in OT (SO).

[Tomdog]

I think it will come down to who is in goal for both teams.

[Tomdog]

The wings lost last night to Carolina with Husso in net.

That should give us the backup and a tired team.

[Alexandron]

Joe Smith

@JoeSmithNHL

 

1h

No lineup changes for #mnwild other than Gustavsson in net. Evason hasn’t heard yet whether Duhaime has been cleared to practice. Hartman on ice.

[ClusterChuck]

3 hours ago, Icechipper said:

Walker looked good the other night, what I saw. One Lou Nanne told Dan Barrario on KFAN Tuesday that Walker is the fastest skater on the Wild and among fastest in the league. Further said he may hold a spot even with eventual return of Hartman and Duhaime.....Detroit was my Original Six squad, so happy to see them finally icing a competitive hockey team......

The young guys will make it tough to decide when the time comes. If Walker continues like he has. Steel, Shaw both playing well and Dewar has the most SH goals in the league. 
Unless dramatic changes in them, Rossi will have to get 'On Fire' to even be considered to bring back up.

[ClusterChuck]

Another tight one it seems...
I'll go Wild win 4-2 with Gustav in net.

[ClusterChuck]

Since getting Reaves there hasn't been any misbehaving around Kap. If there is some little activity he hands it right back.
But we haven't played teams that are known for cheap/rough stuff since either.
Don't know much about Detroit so we'll see tonight.

[IllaZilla]

2 hours ago, Tomdog said:

The wings lost last night to Carolina with Husso in net.

That should give us the backup and a tired team.

 

Which is a recipe for the Wild pooping the bed...

[Tomdog]

4 hours ago, IllaZilla said:

 

Which is a recipe for the Wild pooping the bed...

Yes unfortunately you are correct. That’s why I didn’t give a prediction. 

[Tomdog]

5 hours ago, ClusterChuck said:

The young guys will make it tough to decide when the time comes. If Walker continues like he has. Steel, Shaw both playing well and Dewar has the most SH goals in the league. 
Unless dramatic changes in them, Rossi will have to get 'On Fire' to even be considered to bring back up.

This is one of the better problems to have. 
Not that the talent is that great, but there really isn’t a sure fire decision to be made. 
Steel may not produce like a completely healthy Hartman, but no one is missing Hartman’s stupid penalties. 
Do you take out Reeves for Duhaime and hope the chemistry is still there?

If Walker produces a little more is Duhaime a sure thing replacement?

Good problems to have. 

[wildstars95]

4 hours ago, IllaZilla said:

 

Which is a recipe for the Wild pooping the bed...

[MNSOTA]

I’m sorry but when your game is the early game of the national broadcast, there shouldn’t also be a local broadcast. A local broadcast that then blacks out the national broadcast because of a ridiculous dispute between a communications company and numerous cable/satellite companies. 

[ClusterChuck]

That was Nasty...but shoulder hit head first.

 

[Jimtown guy]

Boom  

[Tomdog]

That was a freight train. 

[Jimtown guy]

Just now, ClusterChuck said:

That was Nasty...but shoulder hit head first.

 

Clean hit 

[ClusterChuck]

Dumba gets collared 

[Tomdog]

Can someone with more hockey smarts explain what the strategy is for that drop pass entry on the pp

[ClusterChuck]

2 minutes ago, Tomdog said:

Can someone with more hockey smarts explain what the strategy is for that drop pass entry on the pp

Bewilders me too.

[Tomdog]

It just seems to clog up the blue line and leave everyone at a standstill. 
I guess you could use your teammates as a pick, except the other team is behind the blue line. 

[ClusterChuck]

2 minutes ago, Tomdog said:

It just seems to clog up the blue line and leave everyone at a standstill. 
I guess you could use your teammates as a pick, except the other team is behind the blue line. 

That's my main beef. 
Then we only have a few skilled players to control the puck to get through that mess.

[Tomdog]

I could see it working if you could do it before the other team gets behind the blue line. 
Otherwise all it seems to do is take away space needed to skate in.