Minnesota Wild @ Buffalo Sabres, Saturday 1-7-23, 6:00pm, KeyBank Center

[Alexandron]

Just now, ClusterChuck said:

Wouldn't change a thing, Not Fleury's fault.

Maybe not or maybe yes. Who knows?

[wildstars95]

fk it get some tussles going may get them off their game 

[ClusterChuck]

Our play is so bad Dumba doesn't even stand out. 

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

Wild, even if oh-so-briefly, have already demonstrated that if they pressure the Buffalo net, pressure the defense of the Sabres, they can get them scrambling around their own zone.

Buffalo is NOT a savvy defensive group just yet......easier said than done at the moment, but MIN needs to push things over in that direction to get the Sabres out of their awesome offensive comfort zone.

[bbgarnett]

Hartzy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Edited January 8, 2023 by bbgarnett

[ClusterChuck]

Hartmann !! 

[Alexandron]

HEART MANNNN!!!!! HUGE GOAL!!!

[ClusterChuck]

Old Skool Hartzy.

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

See that?
Hartman with a goal where Sabres defenders not quite sure how to cover.

Push that advantage Minnesota!
Evason...I know you're seeing this....let your boys know!

[ClusterChuck]

Maybe that'll energize the team after being embarrased midway.

[wildstars95]

c'mon wild it's just buffalo 

[wildstars95]

3 minutes ago, TropicalFruitGirl26 said:

See that?
Hartman with a goal where Sabres defenders not quite sure how to cover.

Push that advantage Minnesota!
Evason...I know you're seeing this....let your boys know!

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

One good thing I saw that might work in the Wild's favor:

Buffalo looked like they were initiating some physical stuff at period's end.
They are leading because they are fine tuned to offense at the moment.

They start screwing around with that, try playing goon, without having the airtight defense to back it up, and they play into the hands of King Goon Ryan Reaves and the Wild.

3rd period has been the Sabres' happy place, lets see how it plays out now after what went on before the period ended.

Edited January 8, 2023 by TropicalFruitGirl26

[Alexandron]

Just now, ClusterChuck said:

Maybe that'll energize the team after being embarrased midway.

I hope. So far we placed 27 shots on Sabres net and they put 19 shots on our net. 

[ClusterChuck]

5 minutes ago, wildstars95 said:

That's just creepy 

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

Hah!
Walz looked like he didn't care much for Audra's "wild period" pun.

Walz: "Let me tell you when I played, we didn't pun like that. We pressured the jokes, caused turnovers at the punch lines, but NEVER punned like that" 

[Alexandron]

I just looked for MNSOTA presentation stats on both teams at the beginning of this thread. It seems their 5 best producing players are more productive than our 5 best producing players. I will be glad if we will get at least one point from this game.

[wildstars95]

2 minutes ago, Alexandron said:

I just looked for MNSOTA presentation stats on both teams at the beginning of this thread. It seems their 5 best producing players are more productive than our 5 best producing players. I will be glad if we will get at least one point from this game.

u still not watching the game live?

[ClusterChuck]

3 minutes ago, Alexandron said:

I just looked for MNSOTA presentation stats on both teams at the beginning of this thread. It seems their 5 best producing players are more productive than our 5 best producing players. I will be glad if we will get at least one point from this game.

Our puck handling has been probably in the top 3 worst games of the year and yet we're only down 1. 

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

Just now, ClusterChuck said:

Our puck handling has been probably in the top 3 worst games of the year and yet we're only down 1. 

 

Yea, given what has gone down, I'd say the Wild are fortunate to be only one shot away from tying this.
Stay out of the penalty box, and play in the Sabres' end, and they give themselves a shot.

[bbgarnett]

Foligno!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Edited January 8, 2023 by bbgarnett

[ClusterChuck]

Foligno Finally !!

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

There we go!!
Atta boys, Wild!

Start the period in the Sabres end, press the issue, Buffalo's defense is still green as cucumbers...goal!

[ClusterChuck]

Ugly..Lucky..Who cares. Moose needed that one.

[wildstars95]

see it's only the fkn sabres