Minnesota Wild vs Arizona Coyotes, Saturday 1-14-23, 7:00pm, Xcel Energy Center

[MNSOTA]

Minnesota Wild (23-14-4)  50pts  3rd in the Central

 

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

2.80 Goals Against Per Game (10th in the NHL)

 

22.7% Power Play (14th in the NHL)

79.3% Penalty Kill (14th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #97 Kirill Kaprizov ~ 25G 26A = 51pts

2. #36 Mats Zuccarello ~ 17G 26A = 43pts

3. #14 Joel Eriksson Ek ~ 14G 19A = 33pts

4. #12 Matt Boldy ~ 12G 17A = 29pts

5. #13 Sam Steel ~ 8G 13A = 21pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #24 Matt Dumba ~ 54 PIM's

2. #5 Jake Middleton ~ 52 PIM's

3. #17 Marcus Foligno ~ 46 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #29 Marc-Andre Fleury (13-8-3)  2.93GAA  .902%  1SO

2. #32 Filip Gustavsson (10-6-1)  2.17GAA  .925%  1SO

 

 

Vs.

 

 

Arizona Coyotes (13-23-5)  31pts  7th in the Central

 

2.73 Goals For Per Game (28th in the NHL)

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

 

20.2% Power Play (22nd in the NHL)

73.9% Penalty Kill (25th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #9 Clayton Keller ~ 14G 23A = 37pts

2. #14 Shayne Gostisbehere ~ 9G 19A = 28pts

3. #67 Lawson Crouse ~ 15G 8A = 23pts

4. #8 Nick Schmaltz ~ 7G 13A = 20pts

5. #6 Jake Chychrun ~ 5G 15A = 20pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #22 Jack McBain ~ 36 PIM's

2. #3 Josh Brown ~ 35 PIM's

3. #44 Zack Kassian ~ 34 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #70 Karel Vejmelka (11-15-4)  3.38GAA  .902%  2SO

2. #39 Connor Ingram (2-8-1)  3.92GAA  .886%

 

Lines:

 

Arizona Coyotes

 

Keller~Hayton~Schmaltz

Crouse~Bjugstad~Guenther

N. Ritchie~Boyd~Fischer

Moser~McBain~Kassian

 

Chychrun~Gostisbehere

Valimaki~J. Brown

Nemeth~Stecher

 

Vejmelka

Ingram

 

Minnesota Wild

 

Kaprizov~Steel~Zuccarello

Boldy~F. Gaudreau~Hartman

M. Foligno~Eriksson Ek~Greenway

Duhaime~Dewar~Reaves

 

Middleton~Spurgeon

Brodin~Dumba

Merrill~Addison

 

Fleury

Gustavsson

[Alexandron]

Predicting the Wild a must win game with a score 5:3. Because next few games will be a road games against a pretty tough teams (Capitals; Hurricanes; Panthers; Lightning). Every point is highly valuable especially during the second half of the season. I can't believe that we played already 41 games of the season 2022-2023. Time is running very fast. Still wish to see hattricks from Kaprizov, Zuccarello, Boldy and also more shutouts. We have so far only 2.

[ClusterChuck]

Can't take the Yotes lightly.
Given their stats, We should win this 5-2. 

...should.

[wildstars95]

  this should be a real dandy tonight ...4-2 wild 

[bbgarnett]

Wild 6 Yotes 1 

[bbgarnett]

Come on EEK how do you not even get any sort of shot off there.

[ClusterChuck]

Oh Ek...

I'm always nervous playing any team on a long losing streak.

[bbgarnett]

3 minutes ago, ClusterChuck said:

Oh Ek...

I'm always nervous playing any team.

FIFY

[ClusterChuck]

SOG's please .

[ClusterChuck]

[ClusterChuck]

Greenway didn't recognize it was a 2 on 1 at first it seemed then 'made a move'. 

[ClusterChuck]

I'd like to see Kap get #100 tonight ofc, But he probably wants to do it in front of Ovi on Tuesday.

[Alexandron]

 

36 minutes ago, ClusterChuck said:

SOG's please .

I agree. Not enough shots. We made so far only 7 shots vs their 10.  That is not our game at home. 

[Alexandron]

2 Arizona players were holding Greenway. We need to place a goal at this PP. So far Arizona looks better than our team.

[bbgarnett]

Zuchinni!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ClusterChuck]

ZUCC !!

[Alexandron]

ZUCCARELLO!!!!!

[bbgarnett]

Kruger!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ClusterChuck]

Freddie !!

[Alexandron]

GAUDREAU!!!!!

[ClusterChuck]

Giving up those 2 doesn't seem to have deflated the Yotes yet.
We should get a 3rd quick to test that. 

[IllaZilla]

Wonder if Jack McBain regrets forcing a trade…

[bbgarnett]

any one watching the Jags Chargers, Lawrence threw 3 INT in the first and another here in the 2nd and Jags are down 24-0

[ClusterChuck]

Just now, IllaZilla said:

Wonder if Jack McBain regrets forcing a trade…

I always wondered what was behind that decision...Ego?

[Alexandron]

EEK had a nice chance to score.