Minnesota Wild @ Florida Panthers, Saturday 1-21-23, 5:00pm, FLA Live Arena

[MNSOTA]

Minnesota Wild (25-15-4)  54pts  3rd in the Central

 

3.11 Goals For Per Game (17th in the NHL)

2.80 Goals Against Per Game (11th in the NHL)

 

22.9% Power Play (15th in the NHL)

79.5% Penalty Kill (15th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #97 Kirill Kaprizov ~ 26G 27A = 53pts

2. #36 Mats Zuccarello ~ 18G 27A = 45pts

3. #14 Joel Eriksson Ek ~ 15G 20A = 35pts

4. #12 Matt Boldy ~ 13G 17A = 30pts
5. #13 Sam Steel ~ 8G 14A = 22pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #5 Jake Middleton ~ 54 PIM's

2. #24 Matthew Dumba ~ 54 PIM's
3. #17 Marcus Foligno ~ 46 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #29 Marc-Andre Fleury (14-9-3)  2.94GAA  .902%  1SO

2. #32 Filip Gustavsson (11-6-1)  2.16GAA  .926%  1SO

 

 

Vs.

 

 

Florida Panthers (22-20-5)  49pts  4th in the Atlantic

 

3.34 Goals For Per Game (9th in the NHL)

3.38 Goals Against Per Game (22nd in the NHL)

 

23.5% Power Play (13th in the NHL)

76.1% Penalty Kill (20th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #19 Matthew Tkachuk ~ 24G 34A = 58pts

2. #16 Aleksander Barkov ~ 12G 27A = 39pts

3. #62 Brandon Montour ~ 8G 30A = 38pts

4. #23 Carter Verhaeghe ~ 21G 16A = 37pts

5. #13 Sam Reinhart ~ 14G 20A = 34pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #19 Matthew Tkachuk ~ 74 PIM's

2. #62 Brandon Montour ~ 61 PIM's

3. #94 Ryan Lomberg ~ 55 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #72 Sergei Bobrovsky (12-13-2)  3.24GAA  .897%  1SO

2. #34 Alex Lyon (1-0-0)  2.08GAA  .920%

 

Lines:

 

Florida Panthers

 

Lundell~Barkov~Reinhart

Verhaeghe~Bennett~M. Tkachuk

Denisenko~Luostarinen~Cousins

Lomberg~E. Staal~Gi. Smith

 

Forsling~Ekblad

M. Staal~Montour

Mahura~Gudas

 

Bobrovsky

Lyon

 

Minnesota Wild

 

Kaprizov~Steel~Zuccarello

Boldy~F. Gaudreau~Hartman

M. Foligno~Eriksson Ek~Greenway

Duhaime~Dewar~Reaves

 

Middleton~Spurgeon

Brodin~Goligoski

Merrill~Addison

 

Fleury

Gustavsson

[ClusterChuck]

Given the stats, A winnable game. Maybe even get some PP's and score some that way.
Wild Win 5-3 if Gustav is in the net.

[Alexandron]

Predicting Wild win with a score 5:4 in OT (or SO). We need 2 points from this game. And zero penalties if we want to win. 7 penalties from last game were not acceptable. Every team should be taken very seriously especially on road games.

[Icechipper]

Dumba still a scratch, apparently?

[ClusterChuck]

6 minutes ago, Icechipper said:

Dumba still a scratch, apparently?

Unless MNSOTA copy/pasted the last line up,   If he is a healthy scratch, I wonder if there is a trade in the works then.
Otherwise a 1 game booth visit is usually the norm for waking a player up.

Edited January 21, 2023 by ClusterChuck

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

Florida Panthers, after a mostly tepid season to this point, have been playing better as of late.
If the Wild play their game, play the full 60, and don't look past the Panthers in any way, they can diffuse the Cats once again and leave them wallowing in the 'wannabe contender' group with Buffalo, Detroit, and Ottawa.

As for Dumba, if he is being scratched for trade purposes, I hope it happens sooner than later...as in BEFORE the trade deadline.
Wild could use his cap space, could use the roster spot, could do without any prolonged drama surrounding his status as well.

I still think Dumba, in the right situation moving forward, can offer a contender some depth and a good shooter from the blue line.
He just has gone down this rabbit hole here in Minnesota to the point where, unless he starts pulling goals and assists out of his arse, he won't be able to do much to change people's minds about him as a member of the Minnesota hockey club.

So....Minnesota Wild in my home state, taking on those stinkin Panthers.... Go Wild GO! 

[wildstars95]

 just hoping no knee injuries tonight ,  1 point at least 

                                                             

[ClusterChuck]

36 minutes ago, wildstars95 said:

 just hoping no knee injuries tonight ,  1 point at least 

                                                             

Did someone get one last game or practice??

[ClusterChuck]

2 hours ago, TropicalFruitGirl26 said:

As for Dumba, if he is being scratched for trade purposes, I hope it happens sooner than later...as in BEFORE the trade deadline.
Wild could use his cap space, could use the roster spot, could do without any prolonged drama surrounding his status as well.
 

Being an UFA he'd have to be traded before deadline or he can walk and we get nothing.

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

4 minutes ago, ClusterChuck said:

Being an UFA he'd have to be traded before deadline or he can walk and we get nothing.

 

Yea, I know, but my meaning was, let's not wait for the trade deadline, make the move sooner (will take an interested party of course), and be done with it when the craze of Deadline Day rolls around.

 

[bbgarnett]

So Dumba is scratched again tonight?

[ClusterChuck]

Good pressure there.

[ClusterChuck]

Just now, bbgarnett said:

So Dumba is scratched again tonight?

Yep and Foligno out illness.

 

[bbgarnett]

Well let's hope a trade is actually in the works.

[ClusterChuck]

Zappa patroling the crease 

[bbgarnett]

How do you miss that wide Hartman

[bbgarnett]

Wow just leave him uncovered 

[ClusterChuck]

17 minutes ago, bbgarnett said:

Wow just leave him uncovered 

Missed the goal, Saw the replay. Did Greenway turn it over then it got to an uncovered guy?

 

[bbgarnett]

2 minutes ago, ClusterChuck said:

Missed the goal, Saw the replay. Did Greenway turn it over then it got to an uncovered guy?

 

It was Spurgeon's guy and he was turned heading down the ice already. So yes it got turned over and ended up on Lundell's stick.

[ClusterChuck]

Looking deflated already 

[ClusterChuck]

Bottom of league PK, We need to net 1 here.

[bbgarnett]

Boldy!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ClusterChuck]

Boldy !!...Nice passing.

[bbgarnett]

Boldy needed that one 

[ClusterChuck]

3 minutes ago, bbgarnett said:

Boldy needed that one 

2 in 2 nights now.