Minnesota Wild @ Washington Capitals, Tuesday 1-17-23, 6:00pm, Capital One Arena

[MNSOTA]

Minnesota Wild (24-14-4)  52pts  3rd in the Central

 

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

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

 

23.1% Power Play (13th in the NHL)

79.4% Penalty Kill (15th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #97 Kirill Kaprizov ~ 25G 27A = 52pts

2. #36 Mats Zuccarello ~ 18G 26A = 44pts

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

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

5. #13 Sam Steel ~ 8G 14A = 22pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #5 Jake Middleton ~ 54 PIM's

2. #24 Matt Dumba ~ 54 PIM's

3. #17 Marcus Foligno ~ 46 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #29 Marc-Andre Fleury (14-8-3)  2.86GAA  .905%  1SO

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

 

 

Vs.

 

 

Washington Capitals (24-16-6)  54pts  4th in the Metropolitan

 

3.22 Goals For Per Game (13th in the NHL)

2.76 Goals Against Per Game (9th in the NHL)

 

21.3% Power Play (17th in the NHL)

80.8% Penalty Kill (10th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #8 Alexander Ovechkin ~ 30G 20A = 40pts

2. #92 Evegeni Kuznetsov ~ 6G 31A = 37pts

3. #73 Connor Sheary ~ 11G 17A = 28pts

4. #56 Erik Gustafsson ~ 7G 19A = 26pts

5. #39 Anthony Mantha ~ 9G 14A = 23pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #21 Garnet Hathaway ~ 46 PIM's

2. #92 Evgeni Kuznetsov ~ 32 PIM's

3. #20 Lars Eller ~ 30 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #35 Darcy Kuemper (13-11-4)  2.55GAA  .917%  4SO

2. #79 Charlie Lindgren (11-5-2)  2.60GAA  .912%

 

Lines:

 

Washington Capitals

 

Ovechkin~Kuznetsov~Sheary

Milano~Backstrom~Wilson

Mantha~Dowd~Oshie

M. Johansson~Eller~Hathaway

 

Gustafsson~Tre van Reimsdyk

Orlov~Jensen

Irwin~Fehervary

 

Kuemper

C. Lindgren

 

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]

No questions, next 4 road games will be for the team extremely tough. I will be very happy if we will get at least 4 points from these 4 games. For this game predicting Wild loss in OT (or SO) with a score 3:4. Hope, Kaprizov will be able to place his 100th career goal at this time.

[SaucyJack]

Last time the Wild visited Washington was early April last year, and it was the home team lost in the wilderness, on the drubbed end of a 5-1 score.

 

Caps did just pull off a comeback last night, but it was extremely uncharacteristic of them, especially of the past two weeks.  It is so difficult to predict how Washington will play any given night.  I wouldn’t wager this game either direction.

[Jimtown guy]

Gonna miss this one as well but I’m going Wild 5 Caps 3 

[ClusterChuck]

May depend on which Kuemper shows up tonight.
Very good GAA and 4 SO's but also has a losing record. 

Stop Ovi and we have a chance. But good luck with that.
A Kap-Ovi show and Wild Win 5-4. 

[wildstars95]

 I have a feeling ovie might line up for a one timer from the right circle on a caps powerplay    3-2 wild tonight

[Alexandron]

Michael Russo

@RussoHockey

 

Filip Gustavsson starts for #mnwild. 

 

 

We should stay out of penalty box. Backstrom and Wilson are back.

[bbgarnett]

2 hours ago, ClusterChuck said:

May depend on which Kuemper shows up tonight.
Very good GAA and 4 SO's but also has a losing record. 

Stop Ovi and we have a chance. But good luck with that.
A Kap-Ovi show and Wild Win 5-4. 

Kuemper started last night so assuming we get Lindgren 

[IllaZilla]

1 minute ago, bbgarnett said:

Kuemper started last night so assuming we get Lindgren 

 

It's never good when the Wild face the back-up...

[ClusterChuck]

35 minutes ago, IllaZilla said:

 

It's never good when the Wild face the back-up...

And with a decent record too.

[Math]

2 hours ago, ClusterChuck said:

And with a decent record too.

 

And one of the greatest moustache of the League. Almost close to the Middleton one.

[Alexandron]

3 hours ago, bbgarnett said:

Kuemper started last night so assuming we get Lindgren 

Interesting fact, that Charlie Lindgren (29 y.o.) is Minnesotan from Lakeville, MN. During the last couple years (2021-2023) he progressed pretty well. When played for Springfield Thunderbirds(AHL) his record was 24-7-1; GAA 2.21; SV% 0.925; for St. Louis Blues team (NHL) he had 5-0-0 record ; GAA was 1.22; SV% was 0.958. This season with Capitals his record is 11-5-2; GAA 2.6; SV% 0.912. 

I think tonight it will be an intriguing duel between our Gustavsson and their Lindgren. As well as our Kaprizov and their Ovechkin. Capitals are pretty offensive team which is hard to stop. Hoping for at least one point  from this game.

[ClusterChuck]

23 minutes ago, Alexandron said:

Interesting fact, that Charlie Lindgren (29 y.o.) is Minnesotan from Lakeville, MN. During the last couple years (2021-2023) he progressed pretty well. When played for Springfield Thunderbirds(AHL) his record was 24-7-1; GAA 2.21; SV% 0.925; for St. Louis Blues team (NHL) he had 5-0-0 record ; GAA was 1.22; SV% was 0.958. This season with Capitals his record is 11-5-2; GAA 2.6; SV% 0.912. 

I think tonight it will be an intriguing duel between our Gustavsson and their Lindgren. As well as our Kaprizov and their Ovechkin. Capitals are pretty offensive team which is hard to stop. Hoping for at least one point  from this game.

Sure 1 pt would be nice. But if we want to get anywhere in the PO's, We need to learn how or find a way to beat these 'tough' teams.
Caps record isn't much better than ours. 

[bbgarnett]

I was at the doctors today and he said he recently got to meet Jordan Greenway at a party. He said Greenway was dating his nieces boyfriends sister.

Edited January 18, 2023 by bbgarnett

[ClusterChuck]

Lol...Nice try avoiding the TMM. 

 

[wildstars95]

just lay reaves in the right circle now 

[ClusterChuck]

Gustav settles down that shift. 

[bbgarnett]

I've got Gus and Lindgren starting tonight so best I can hope for is a 1-0 wild win in a SO

Edited January 18, 2023 by bbgarnett

[wildstars95]

  hartman can't hit the net...

[bbgarnett]

1 minute ago, wildstars95 said:

  Hartman can't hit the net...

Neither can most of the wild

[ClusterChuck]

Good passing but when we get in the O-zone, No finish.

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

Love the fight shown by Duhaime just now, but I think he got into it with the wrong guy.... Aube-Kubel can be a bit of an animal when it comes to the rough stuff.

[ClusterChuck]

Hehe...DuHaime got under their skins.

Can't get too many tips when shots are already going High or Wide. 

[wildstars95]

not too much o zone for the wild  

[ClusterChuck]

1 minute ago, TropicalFruitGirl26 said:

Love the fight shown by Duhaime just now, but I think he got into it with the wrong guy.... Aube-Kubel can be a bit of an animal when it comes to the rough stuff.

Aube looked like he wanted to give an elbow to the head and then no interest in fighting, So he threw him down.