Minnesota Wild @ Anaheim Ducks, Wednesday 12-21-22, 9:00pm, Honda Center

[MNSOTA]

Minnesota Wild (18-11-2)  38pts  3rd in the Central

 

3.13 Goals For Per Game (17th in the NHL)

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

 

24.8% Power Play (10th in the NHL)

80.2% Penalty Kill (13th in the NHL)

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #97 Kirill Kaprizov ~ 19G 23A = 42pts

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

3. #14 Joel Eriksson Ek ~ 10G 15A = 25pts

4. #12 Matt Boldy ~ 11G 11A = 22pts

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

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #17 Marcus Foligno ~ 44 PIM's

2. #5 Jacob Middleton ~ 40 PIM's

3. #15 Mason Shaw ~ 34 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #29 Marc-Andre Fleury (11-7-1)  2.94GAA  .899%  1SO

2. #32 Filip Gustavsson (7-4-1)  2.31GAA  .9222%  1SO

 

 

Vs.

 

 

Anaheim Ducks (9-21-3)  21pts  8th in the Pacific

 

2.36 Goals For Per Game (30th in the NHL)

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

 

16.1% Power Play (28th in the NHL)

67.8% Penalty Kill (31st in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #19 Troy Terry ~ 12G 16A = 28pts

2. #11 Trevor Zegras ~ 10G 15A = 25pts

3. #37 Mason McTavish ~ 4G 14A = 18pts

4. #14 Adam Henrique ~ 9G 8A = 17pts

5. #16 Ryan Strome ~ 8G 9A = 17pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #44 Max Comtois ~ 48 PIM's

2. #13 Simon Benoit ~ 37 PIM's

3. #11 Trevor Zegras ~ 30 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #1 Lukas Dostal (2-1-0)  3.73GAA  .898%

2. #31 Olle Eriksson Ek N/A

 

Lines:

 

Anaheim Ducks

 

Henrique~Zegras~Terry

Vatrano~R. Strome~Silfverberg

Comtois~McTavish~Leason

Ja. Megna~Carrick~Cltn. White

 

Fowler~Kulikov

Benoit~Klingberg

Vaakinainen~Shattenkirk

 

Dostal

O. Eriksson Ek

 

Minnesota Wild

 

Kaprizov~Steel~Zuccarello

Hartman~F. Gaudreau~Boldy

Greenway~J. Eriksson Ek~M. Foligno

Reaves~Dewar~Shaw

 

Middleton~Spurgeon

Brodin~Dumba

Merrill~Addison

 

Fleury

Gustavsson

[Alexandron]

Predicting Wild win with a score 4:3. It could be another trapping game like it was here on our ice against this team. Hope we will be lucky again. A must win game as well as against Sharks, because this coming month is going to be very difficult for our team.

[ClusterChuck]

14 minutes ago, Alexandron said:

Predicting Wild win with a score 4:3. It could be another trapping game like it was here on our ice against this team. Hope we will be lucky again. A must win game as well as against Sharks, because this coming month is going to be very difficult for our team.

I'll go Wild win 4-2.
Agreed, Must grab points now against these teams.
Hopefully  the 'Blizzard' won't be on their minds for their families back home and they focus on the games. 

[wildstars95]

      4-2 my guestimation for tonight

[Math]

1-5 Wild, the Ducks are dreadful (1-9 if Gibson is cleared to play).

[Jimtown guy]

Got beer league tonight so I’ll miss this one, at least the first 2 periods anyways. My first prediction of the year. Wild 5-3 

[bbgarnett]

Well were playing a horrible team that we should beat so we won't Ducks 4-3 in OT

[wildstars95]

nhl66 is working tonight 

[ClusterChuck]

1 minute ago, wildstars95 said:

nhl66 is working tonight 

And Volokit is sharp...It is a Christmas miracle.

[ClusterChuck]

Holy Cr4p...12 straight wins vs the ducks.

[bbgarnett]

Just now, ClusterChuck said:

Holy Cr4p...12 straight wins vs the ducks.

well we played them a lot when they were in our division 2 years ago 

[ClusterChuck]

How'd we miss that one !!

[ClusterChuck]

This has to be the 5th straight team we've faced coming off a back to back. 

[wildstars95]

 the power play effort

[Tomdog]

And that's after practice 

[ClusterChuck]

1 minute ago, wildstars95 said:

 the power play effort

15 passes before 1st shot attempt 

[Tomdog]

At least they aren't trailing after total domination of the first half of that period.

I hope they come back with the early pace in the second.

[ClusterChuck]

Either draw up a new PP plan or insert a few different players for some possible creativity.
How do you not score against the leagues worst PK ?? There's a reason they're at that spot.
Well, Gibson isn't in net, So....

[wildstars95]

fluery seems bored with no action ,coming out of the net and horsing around can't be good

I'ts all fun and games till the ducks score first...

[Tomdog]

Suposedlythey worked on the PP trying to be more straight forward getting pucks to the net inside.

I didn't see a whole lot of that.

[ClusterChuck]

2 minutes ago, wildstars95 said:

fluery seems bored with no action ,coming out of the net and horsing around can't be good

I'ts all fun and games till the ducks score first...

That * Ding * better have woken him up.

[wildstars95]

zucc only has eyes for kap  and vice versa

[Tomdog]

Just now, wildstars95 said:

zucc only has eyes for kap  and vice versa

They better learn how to play with others or they will have a tough time come playoffs.

[bbgarnett]

Just now, Tomdog said:

They better learn how to play with others or they will have a tough time come playoffs.

if only they had a third to form a menage a trois

[Tomdog]

That is the worst call I have ever seen. Foligno gets can opened and they call it a dive?