Minnesota Wild vs Calgary Flames, Tuesday 3-7-23, 7:00pm, Xcel Energy Center

[MNSOTA]

Minnesota Wild (36-21-6)  78pts  2nd in the Central

 

2.78 Goals For Per Game (26th in the NHL)

2.62 Goals Against Per Game (3rd in the NHL)

 

22.7% Power Play (12th in the NHL)

82.2% Penalty Kill (9th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #97 Kirill Kaprizov ~ 39G 34A = 73pts

2. #36 Mats Zuccarello ~ 20G 38A = 58pts

3. #14 Joel Eriksson Ek~ 22G 27A = 49pts

4. #12 Matt Boldy ~ 17G 25A = 42pts

5. #90 Marcus Johansson ~ 13G 16A = 29pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #38 Ryan Hartman ~ 70 PIM's

2. #24 Matt Dumba ~ 66 PIM's

3. #5 Jake Middleton~ 63 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #32 Filip Gustavsson (17-8-3)  1.99GAA  .933%  2SO

2. #29 Marc-Andre Fleury (19-13-3)  2.81GAA  .905%  2SO

 

 

Vs.

 

 

Calgary Flames (28-23-13)  69pts  5th in the Pacific

 

3.09 Goals For Per Game (19th in the NHL)

3.08 Goals Against Per Game (14th in the NHL)

 

19.3% Power Play (23rd in the NHL)

80.9% Penalty Kill (13th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #73 Tyler Toffoli ~ 26G 28A = 54pts

2. #28 Elias Lindholm ~ 18G 34A = 52pts

3. #91 Nazem Kadri ~ 21G 26A = 47pts

4. #10 Jonathan Huberdeau ~ 12G 30A = 42pts

5. #11 Mikael Backlund ~ 14G 27A = 41pts

 

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #16 Nikita Zadorov ~ 60 PIM's

2. #91 Nazem Kadri ~ 52 PIM's

3. #20 Blake Coleman ~ 44 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #25 Jacob Markstrom (16-17-8)  2.96GAA  .889% 

2. #80 Daniel Vladar (12-6-5)  2.95GAA  .895%

 

Lines:

 

Calgary Flames

 

Dube~Lindholm~Toffoli

Pelletier~Kadri~Huberdeau

Mangiapane~Backlund~Coleman

Lucic~Lewis~Duehr

 

Weegar~R. Andersson

Hanifin~C. Tanev

Zadorov~Stecher

 

Markstrom

Vladar

 

Minnesota Wild

 

Kaprizov~Hartman~Zuccarello

Johansson~Eriksson Ek~Boldy

M. Foligno~Steel~F. Gaudreau

Shaw~Dewar~Reaves

 

Middleton~Spurgeon

Goligoski~Dumba

Merrill~Klingberg

 

Gustavsson

Fleury 

[Alexandron]

Michael Russo

@RussoHockey

20h

#mnwild lines

Kaprizov-Hartman-Zuccarello

Steel-Eriksson Ek-Boldy

Foligno-Gaudreau-Sundqvist

Shaw-Dewar-Reaves

 

Middleton-Spurgeon

Goligoski-Dumba

Merrill-Klingberg

 

 

Michael Russo

@RussoHockey

19h

Sundqvist will debut tomorrow, Johansson just went back to DC to get his stuff and will play tomorrow unless there’s travel issue, Duhaime continues to get evaluated, Brodin hasn’t skated yet #mnwild

 

Joe Smith

@JoeSmithNHL

19h

Same lineup tomorrow other than Sunqvist in for Steel. Johansson is ok, just went to grab his stuff. Brodin still not skating. They’re gonna wait til he feels better. Not rush. It’s been something he’s played through for long time. Gustavsson in net tomorrow vs Calgary #mnwild

 

[Alexandron]

A must win game against this team.  Calgary team should be taken again very seriously because capable on surprises.  Yesterday they were able to win in regulation against Stars on their home ice when placed the winning goal 5 seconds before the end of the game. 

 

[ClusterChuck]

1 hour ago, Alexandron said:

A must win game against this team.  Calgary team should be taken again very seriously because capable on surprises.  Yesterday they were able to win in regulation against Stars on their home ice when placed the winning goal 5 seconds before the end of the game. 

 

Gave Dallas a little of their own medicine. Even sweeter being in the Big 'D' doing it.
Did us a favor and in the meantime had to gut one out while we wait for them.
Glad to see the Wild are sticking with Gustav for this. 
We play the way we did last game and we'll frustrate them to the same result.
Wild win 4-2.

[Icechipper]

Scratched so he can go get his stuff......that's a good one 

 

[Alexandron]

24 minutes ago, Icechipper said:

Scratched so he can go get his stuff......that's a good one 

 

A new message from Russo:

Michael Russo

@RussoHockey

No travel issues for Marcus Johansson. He’s on the ice.

[wildstars95]

 should be a good one tonight 3-2 wild 

[bbgarnett]

Hopefully Klingberg and Sunny D have made amends 

 

 

Edited March 8, 2023 by bbgarnett

[Tomdog]

Hopefully they put their boot on the neck of calgary and put them out of their misery. 

[Jimtown guy]

Should catch most the games now that my coaching duties came to an end at state this past weekend. Next Wednesday is my rotator cuff repair so I’ll have nowhere to go but my couch for awhile 

Edited March 8, 2023 by Jimtown guy

[Jimtown guy]

Who’s on the power play again? Yuck 

[bbgarnett]

very disjointed but luckily we have the Gus bus in net

[Icechipper]

I'm at the proverbial watering hole somewhere on the frozen tundra. I travel but can usually find a a fellow Wild fan .... Klingberg is smooth..... 

[ClusterChuck]

Flames may take more penalties just to get more scoring chances. 

[Tomdog]

Will we see Reaves and Lucic go tonight?

[wildstars95]

ice seems bad pucks bouncing around 

[bbgarnett]

Oh so close

[ClusterChuck]

wide open net !! 

[ClusterChuck]

5 minutes ago, Tomdog said:

Will we see Reaves and Lucic go tonight?

He keeps on Kap...Probably.

[bbgarnett]

Wow WTF we get 2 penalties 

[bbgarnett]

be smarter Hartzy 

[Jimtown guy]

******** 

[ClusterChuck]

Ooo Wolfman sucker punch.

[wildstars95]

  hartzy got baited

[ClusterChuck]

Gustav is so good tracking that puck.