Minnesota Wild @ St. Louis Blues, Saturday 12-31-22, 5:00pm, Enterprise Center

[MNSOTA]

Minnesota Wild (20-13-2)  42pts  3rd in the Central

 

3.09 Goals For Per Game (19th in the NHL)

2.83 Goals Against Per Game (12th in the NHL)

 

23.7% Power Play (11th in the NHL)

79% Penalty Kill (14th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #97 Kirill Kaprizov ~ 20G 25A = 45pts

2. #36 Mats Zuccarello ~ 16G 23A = 39pts

3. #12 Matt Boldy ~ 12G 15A = 27pts

4. #14 Joel Eriksson Ek ~ 12G 15A = 27pts

5. #89 Frederick Gaudreau ~ 9G 8A = 17pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #24 Matt Dumba ~ 48 PIM's

2. #5 Jake Middleton ~ 40 PIM's

3. #26 Connor Dewar ~ 29 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #29 Marc-Andre Fleury (12-8-1)  2.85GAA  .903%  1SO

2. #32 Filip Gustavsson (8-5-1)  2.34GAA  .920%  1SO

 

 

Vs.

 

 

St. Louis Blues (17-16-3)  37pts  5th in the Central

 

3.06 Goals For Per Game (21st in the NHL)

3.58 Goals Against Per Game (27th in the NHL)

 

22.8% Power Play (15th in the NHL)

70.9% Penalty Kill (29th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #25 Jordan Kyrou ~ 17G 16A = 33pts

2. #18 Robert Thomas ~ 8G 24A = 32pts

3. #89 Pavel Buchnevich ~ 12G 15A = 27pts

4. #10 Brayden Schenn ~ 7G 20A = 27pts

5. #72 Justin Faulk ~ 6G 15A = 21pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #41 Robert Bortuzzo ~ 25 PIM's

2. #77 Niko Mikkola ~ 23 PIM's

3. #10 Brayden Schenn ~ 23 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #50 Jordan Binnington (13-11-3)  3.12GAA  .897%  2SO

2. #1 Thomas Greiss (4-5-0)  3.55GAA  .903%

 

Lines:

 

St. Louis Blues

 

Buchnevich~O'Reilly~B. Schenn

Kyrou~Thomas~Barbashev

Saad~Acciari~L. Brown

Toropchenko~N. Walker~Leivo

 

Mikkola~Parayko

Leddy~Faulk

Rosen~Bortuzzo

 

Binnington

Greiss

 

Minnesota Wild

 

Kaprizov~Steel~Zuccarello

Greenway~Eriksson Ek~Hartman

Boldy~F. Gaudreau~S. Walker

Beckman~Dewar~Reaves

 

Middleton~Spurgeon

Brodin~Dumba

Merrill~Addison

 

Fleury

Gustavsson

[Alexandron]

I would like to predict not a simple win over Blues with a score 4:3 in OT (or SO). We should stay far from penalty box and be persistently productive including lines #2;#3 and #4 and defensemen too.

[bbgarnett]

4-1 wild

[ClusterChuck]

Foligno is supposed to be back so...
Wild win 4-2 if Gustav is starting.

[ClusterChuck]

2 hours ago, Alexandron said:

I would like to predict not a simple win over Blues with a score 4:3 in OT (or SO). We should stay far from penalty box and be persistently productive including lines #2;#3 and #4 and defensemen too.

You ask a lot. 

[Jimtown guy]

5-2 Wild. I’ll be in and out as the 
Americans are taking on the Finns right now. USA up 4-2 after 2 

[bbgarnett]

12 minutes ago, Jimtown guy said:

5-2 Wild. I’ll be in and out as the 
Americans are taking on the Finns right now. USA up 4-2 after 2 

been watching that game up until now 

[Tomdog]

Last 2 times I predicted a wild win, they stank. Wild loss 4 to 1.

If Fleury plays like last game I want start seeing Gus 2 out of 3 games until he plays bad. 

[ClusterChuck]

Guess they don't trust Gustav vs 'tougher' teams. 
He deserves to play against any team.

[wildstars95]

just got in and look down by 1 already  4-2 bloo's tonight

 

[bbgarnett]

Dumbass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ClusterChuck]

Dumba

[Jimtown guy]

USA wins it 6-2 and win their pool play 

Edited December 31, 2022 by Jimtown guy

[ClusterChuck]

Lol...Pre PP we just passed and passed ...More of the same I'll bet coming up.

[wildstars95]

The Ref's will control the flow of vikes game sunday 

[ClusterChuck]

Probably good for us that the Blues don't take a lot of penalties so we can play more 5 on 5.

I know it's a long ways away but I fear a repeat of the goalie situation come PO time.
If the Wild say they're going to keep Fleury fresh by playing Gustav as much as possible, Then play him against the so-called tougher teams too.
Starting Fleury against them mostly will only burn him out due to mental and physical stress.
Let him have possibly a less involved night now and then with teams we might get up ahead by a few goals to take the pressure off.

I believe last year to run with Fleury late and in the PO's was all BG saying that's why we got him.
 

Edited December 31, 2022 by ClusterChuck

[ClusterChuck]

10 minutes ago, wildstars95 said:

The Ref's will control the flow of vikes game sunday 

18 hours pre game and you're already blaming the ref's. 

Edited December 31, 2022 by ClusterChuck

[wildstars95]

Just now, ClusterChuck said:

16 hours pre game and you're already blaming the ref's. 

with the pack favored somethings up ...

[ClusterChuck]

Just now, wildstars95 said:

with the pack favored somethings up ...

Yeah... The odds makers have been pretty good all season especially picking underdogs vs us.

[Jimtown guy]

Just now, wildstars95 said:

with the pack favored somethings up ...

Hell Detroit was favored. Obviously Vegas knows a thing or 2. Nobody is really taking the Vikes serious including yourself truly. I’ve seen this film over and over 

[wildstars95]

canada up 3-0 on the swede's 

[ClusterChuck]

Hartman in the right spot !!

[Jimtown guy]

Hartman!!!!

[Jimtown guy]

1 minute ago, wildstars95 said:

canada up 3-0 on the swede's 

They win the Czechs win the pool play 

[wildstars95]

Just now, Jimtown guy said:

They win the Czechs win the pool play