Minnesota Wild vs Buffalo Sabres, Saturday 1-28-23, 8:00pm, Xcel Energy Center

[MNSOTA]

Posting GDT early as we will be out of town until tomorrow afternoon. 
 

 

 

 

Minnesota Wild (26-17-4)  56pts  3rd in the Central

 

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

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

 

24.2% Power Play (11th in the NHL)

79.5% Penalty Kill (15th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #97 Kirill Kaprizov ~ 27G 31A = 58pts

2. #36 Mats Zuccarello ~ 19G 28A = 47pts

3. #14 Joel Eriksson Ek ~ 17G 22A = 39pts

4. #12 Matt Boldy ~ 16G 20A = 36pts

5. #2 Calen Addison ~ 3G 21A = 24pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #5 Jake Middleton ~ 59 PIM's

2. #15 Mason Shaw ~ 58 PIM's

3. #24 Matt Dumba ~ 54 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #29 Marc-Andre Fleury (15-10-3)  2.91GAA  .904%  1SO

2. #32 Filip Gustavsson (11-7-1)  2.26GAA  .922%  1SO

 

 

Vs.

 

 

Buffalo Sabres (26-19-3)  55pts  4th in the Atlantic

 

3.79 Goals For Per Game (1st in the NHL)

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

 

26% Power Play (5th in the NHL)

73.6% Penalty Kill (28th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #72 Tage Thompson ~ 34G 34A = 68pts

2. #26 Rasmus Dahlin ~ 14G 41A = 55pts

3. #89 Alex Tuch ~ 23G 31A = 54pts

4. #53 Jeff Skinner ~ 20G 30A = 50pts

5. #24 Dylan Cozens ~ 17G 26A =43pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #26 Rasmus Dahlin ~ 62 PIM's

2. #19 Peyton Krebs ~ 32 PIM's

3. #46 Ilya Lyubushkin ~ 32 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #1 Ukko-Pekka Luukonen (13-5-1)  3.29GAA  .899%

2. #41 Craig Anderson (8-6-2)  2.73GAA  .918%  1SO

 

Lines:

 

Buffalo Sabres

 

Skinner~T. Thompson~Tuch

Peterka~Cozens~Quinn

Mittlestadt~Jost~V. Olofsson

Girgensons~Krebs~Okposo

 

Samuelsson~Dahlin

Power~Jokiharju

Bryson~Lyubushkin

 

Luukonen

Anderson

 

Minnesota Wild

 

Kaprizov~Steel~Zuccarello

Greenway~Eriksson Ek~M. Foligno

Duhaime~F. Gaudreau~Boldy

Shaw~Dewar~Reaves

 

Middleton~Spurgeon

Brodin~Dumba

Merrill~Addison

 

Fleury

Gustavsson

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

Looking forward to this one!

Another good test for Minnesota as we get to see how they fare against another team, like them, who have good young up n coming talent....and in some cases ALREADY arrived talent!
I've been to the X many times with the Sabres in town and they are usually a disinterested, playing-out-the-string, barely there bunch.

Not so anymore.
One of the higher producing offenses in the league with some of the fastest skaters one can find anywhere and maybe the Wild even get to see Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen again, who looks poised to be Buffalo's everyday goalie moving forward as soon as next season, if not by this season's end.

Plus, the Wild get to try and avenge a closely contested game which saw the Sabres win 6-5 in OT fashion.

Let's go boys! 

 

Edited January 27, 2023 by TropicalFruitGirl26

[IllaZilla]

The stats in invisible ink! Sweet!

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

1 hour ago, IllaZilla said:

The stats in invisible ink! Sweet!

 

I hear if you pass pheasant tail feathers over it, it not only shows the stats, but also reveals the long hidden treasures of Chuck Fletcher which contain dirt on officials throughout the league, hence why he still has a job somewhere.  

[ClusterChuck]

17 hours ago, TropicalFruitGirl26 said:

 

I hear if you pass pheasant tail feathers over it, it not only shows the stats, but also reveals the long hidden treasures of Chuck Fletcher which contain dirt on officials throughout the league, hence why he still has a job somewhere.  

No one type that a 3rd time. 

Let's end the month with a win to go 6-6 this month sadly. 
If Gustav is in net, I feel we can take this at home on Hockey Day 5-3.

[Alexandron]

A must win revenge game on our home ice against very offensive high scoring team. Predicting our win with a score 5:4 in OT. We should better stay out of penalty box and more focused on scoring as well as on defense against their best scorers. That team was able to win previous road game against Jets.

[Alexandron]

According to Russo, Fleury will be in the net tonight.

[ClusterChuck]

1 hour ago, Alexandron said:

According to Russo, Fleury will be in the net tonight.

We're supposed to be keeping Fleury fresh by rotating in Gustav. I figured Fleury would start tonight againt the Sabres but expected Gus to go against Philly.
Need to keep Gustav sharp also.
Both are equally capable of getting us the 2 pts.

[wildstars95]

  see if the wild have any fight in them for 2 points tonight 

[Icechipper]

Love those sweaters.

 

[Jimtown guy]

Wild 5 Sabres 4 in overtime. Let’s Go!!!!

[ClusterChuck]

Good to see some line changes.

[ClusterChuck]

Good move but still let him walk right in. 

[ClusterChuck]

I guess Fleury's pads didn't blind Quinn.

[Jimtown guy]

Double E!!!!

[ClusterChuck]

EK !!

[bbgarnett]

EEK!!!!

[Jimtown guy]

And Dumba marches to the sin bin 

[wildstars95]

it would be nice to seem them go up by 1 or 2 goals for once 

[Jimtown guy]

I apologize to Dumba. It’s Dewar 

[ClusterChuck]

Great kill and pressure by Hartman.

[Jimtown guy]

Nice getting him off the ice for 2 minutes 

[wildstars95]

  the wilds powerless play

[ClusterChuck]

4 minutes ago, Jimtown guy said:

I apologize to Dumba. It’s Dewar 

I could see Dumba's guilty look on his face like he did it.

[Jimtown guy]

1 minute ago, ClusterChuck said:

I could see Dumba's guilty look on his face like he did it.

That’s why I thought it was him