Minnesota Wild vs St. Louis Blues, Sunday 1-8-23, 6:00pm, Xcel Energy Center

[MNSOTA]

Minnesota Wild (22-13-3)  47pts  3rd in the Central

 

3.24 Goals For Per Game (14th in the NHL)

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

 

24.4% Power Play (10th in the NHL)

78.5% Penalty Kill (16th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #97 Kirill Kaprizov ~ 23G 25A = 48pts

2. #14 Joel Eriksson Ek ~ 14G 17A = 31pts

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

4. #2 Calen Addison ~ 3G 18A = 21pts

5. #46 Jared Spurgeon ~ 5G 14A = 19pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #24 Matt Dumba ~ 54 PIM's

2. #5 Jake Middleton ~ 50 PIM's

3. #15 Mason Shaw ~ 49 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #29 Marc-Andre Fleury (13-8-2)  2.94GAA  .901%  1SO

2. #32 Filip Gustavsson (9-5-1)  2.25GAA  .924%  1SO

3. # Zane McIntyre N/A

 

 

Vs.

 

 

St. Louis Blues (19-18-3)  41pts  6th in the Central

 

3.15 Goals For Per Game (18th in the NHL)

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

 

24.1% Power Play (12th in the NHL)

71.7% Penalty Kill (30th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #25 Jordan Kyrou ~ 19G 19A = 38pts

2. #18 Robert Thomas ~ 10G 27A = 37pts

3. #89 Pavel Buchnevich ~ 13G 20A = 33pts

4. #10 Brayden Schenn ~ 8G 23A = 31pts

5. #91 Vladimir Tarasenko ~ 10G 19A = 29pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #77 Niko Mikola ~ 25 PIM's

2. #41 Robert Bortuzzo ~ 25 PIM's

3. #49 Ivan Barbashev ~ 23 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #50 Jordan Binnington (15-13-3)  3.27GAA  .892%  2SO

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

 

Lines:

 

St. Louis Blues

 

Buchnevich~Thomas~Kyrou

Saad~B. Schenn~Barbashev

Neighbors~Acciari~Leivo

Toropchenko~Alexandrov~T. Pitlick

 

Mikkola~Parayko

Rosen~Faulk

Santini~Bortuzzo

 

Binnington

Greiss

 

Minnesota Wild

 

Kaprizov~Steel~Boldy

Greenway~Eriksson Ek~M. Foligno

Duhaime~F. Gaudreau~Hartman

Shaw~Dewar~Reaves

 

Middleton~Spurgeon

Brodin~Dumba

Merrill~Addison

 

Gustavsson

McIntyre

[ClusterChuck]

If Gustav plays and is feeling close to 100% I'll go with a Wild win 4-2.
Boldy and DuHaime score.

[Alexandron]

Predicting Wild win with a score 4:3 in OT (or SO).

[bbgarnett]

Wild 3-2 in  OT

[ClusterChuck]

Much better start to this one. 

[ClusterChuck]

Control your stick. 

[ClusterChuck]

Crap still another PP

[ClusterChuck]

Damn...What a chance by Boldy and then Kap.

[ClusterChuck]

Dumba 
Drives me insane.

[wildstars95]

 If fluery's goals were capped at 3 or less ,the wild could be top of the conference  today...

[wildstars95]

fk sakes I'm on day 6 of the flu something I haven't encountered since 2014 ..forgot how much it sucks    

[bbgarnett]

3 minutes ago, wildstars95 said:

fk sakes I'm on day 6 of the flu something I haven't encountered since 2014 ..forgot how much it sucks    

yeah it's running through our house here too. Luckily it's been bearable for me.

[ClusterChuck]

ON goal please...
Blues having no problem doing so.

[wildstars95]

k ...  time to blast one in now 

[ClusterChuck]

Boldy and Kap have been setting each other up nicely. But when they set up Steel, No matter where he is his go-to move is to find Kap.

[ClusterChuck]

0 SOG's on that PP.

[ClusterChuck]

8 minutes ago, wildstars95 said:

k ...  time to blast one in now 

If you meant shat their pants on the PP, You nailed it.

[wildstars95]

2 minutes ago, ClusterChuck said:

0 SOG's on that PP.

[wildstars95]

1 minute ago, ClusterChuck said:

If you meant shat their pants on the PP, You nailed it.

[wildstars95]

if the wild win in regulation tonight , I wake up with some loot tomorrow 

[ClusterChuck]

Ouch...Ek caught puck watching.

[bbgarnett]

So we played in New York last night come home for this game just to go back out to New York for two more games. Makes total sense to me. Then we come for one against ARI just to back out east to play WSH CAR TBL and FLA.

Edited January 9, 2023 by bbgarnett

[ClusterChuck]

1 SOG so far this period. 

[ClusterChuck]

1 minute ago, bbgarnett said:

So we played in New York last night come home for this game just to go back out to New York for two more games. Makes total sense to me. Then we come for one against ARI just to back out east to play WSH CAR TBL and FLA.

As ridiculous as the Blues going back and forth into Canada. 

 

[wildstars95]

1 minute ago, bbgarnett said:

So we played in New York last night come home for this game just to go back out to New York for two more games. Makes total sense to me. Then we come for one against ARI just to back out east to play WSH CAR TBL and FLA.

bunch of  for sure, the schedulers need a kick in the nuts