Minnesota Wild vs Washington Capitals, Sunday 3-19-23, 1:00pm, Xcel Energy Center

[MNSOTA]

Minnesota Wild (39-22-8)  86pts  3rd in the Central

 

2.87 Goals For Per Game (24th in the NHL)

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

 

22.6% Power Play (10th in the NHL)

80.8% Penalty Kill (12th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #36 Mats Zuccarello ~ 22G 41A = 63pts

2. #14 Joel Eriksson Ek ~ 23G 30A = 53pts

3. #12 Matt Boldy ~ 19G 29A = 48pts

4. #90 Marcus Johansson ~ 15G 19A = 34pts

5. #89 Frederic Gaudreau ~ 13G 17A = 30pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #38 Ryan Hartman ~ 80 PIM's

2. #15 Mason Shaw ~ 69 PIM's

3. #5 Jake Middleton ~ 68 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #32 Filip Gustavsson (17-9-5)  2.08GAA  .929%  3SO

2. #29 Marc-Andre Fleury (22-13-3)  2.82GAA  .908%  2SO

 

 

Vs.

 

 

Washington Capitals (33-30-7)  73pts  6th in the Metropolitan

 

3.09 Goals For Per Game (20th in the NHL)

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

 

20.8% Power Play (19th in the NHL)

82.8% Penalty Kill (5th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #8 Alexander Ovechkin ~ 37G 28A = 65pts

2. #92 Evgeny Kuznetsov ~ 12G 39A = 51pts

3. #16 Dylan Strome ~ 16G 34A = 50pts

4. #77 T.J. Oshie ~ 18G 15A = 33pts

5. #73 Connor Sheary ~ 12G 19A = 31pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #92 Evgeni Kuznetsov ~ 50 PIM's

2. #96 Nicolas Aube-Kubel ~ 40 PIM's

3. #77 T.J. Oshie ~ 38 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #35 Darcy Kuemper (20-22-5)  2.77GAA  .911%  5SO

2. #79 Charlie Lindgren (13-8-2)  2.78GAA  .903%

 

Lines:

 

Washington Capitals

 

Ovechkin~D. Strome~Sheary

Oshie~Kuznetsov~Wilson

Milano~Backstrom~Cr. Smith

Protas~Dowd~Aube-Kubel

 

Sandin~T. van Reimsdyk

Irwin~Carlsson

Alexyev~Fehervary

 

Kuemper

Lindgren

 

Minnesota Wild

 

Sa. Walker~Hartman~Zuccarello

M. Johansson~Eriksson Ek~Boldy

Steel~F. Gaudreau~Sundqvist

Shaw~Dewar~Reaves

 

Middleton~Spurgeon

Brodin~Dumba

Merrill~Klingberg

 

Fleury

Gustavsson

[wildstars95]

 after yesterday's tutorial , no reason they can't win 4-2 today 

[wildstars95]

The wild's 2 man disadvantage powerless play 

[SaucyJack]

It bears repeating - Wild behavior in the past 3 matchups with Washington has been impolite, to say it nicely.  But really, such rudeness displayed the past two seasons to have swept these matchups by a combined 12 to 5 goal tally.  Why, I never!

 

I daresay that our Capitals lads must summon the gumption, if body-checked too fervently into the boards or out-elbowed in corner scrambles, to approach and address the game officials with a determined and forceful, “hey…”

[wildstars95]

3 hours ago, SaucyJack said:

It bears repeating - Wild behavior in the past 3 matchups with Washington has been impolite, to say it nicely.  But really, such rudeness displayed the past two seasons to have swept these matchups by a combined 12 to 5 goal tally.  Why, I never!

 

I daresay that our Capitals lads must summon the gumption, if body-checked too fervently into the boards or out-elbowed in corner scrambles, to approach and address the game officials with a determined and forceful, “hey…”

[ClusterChuck]

I'll go with the 4-3 win again. 

[ClusterChuck]

Whoa Boldy !!
I was just getting my coffee and came back to that.

[Jimtown guy]

Now that was pretty 

[ClusterChuck]

BOLDY X2 !!!

[Jimtown guy]

Both have been onsides. Imagine that

[ClusterChuck]

I'd like him to hot 30 goals this season and get hot for the PO's.

[ClusterChuck]

Shoot, No Keumper, I was hoping to get under his skin and watch him do a Binnington.

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

Alright....time to tune into some real competitive hockey.
Tried watching some of the Bruins at Sabres and Boston is absolutely tearing the Sabres a new one.

On top of that, the Boston feed, which I was forced to listen to due to the Buffalo one not working for some reason, is horrible...just HORRIBLE.
Mega homers, terrible play by play, and sounding like a pair of drunks someone let into the booth by accident.

Aaaanyways, let's go Wild!
I apologize to the entire Wild organization and the fanbase for even THINKING Bos-Buf would be worth a watch over my boys in green... **shudder**

[Jimtown guy]

1 minute ago, TropicalFruitGirl26 said:

Alright....time to tune into some real competitive hockey.
Tried watching some of the Bruins at Sabres and Boston is absolutely tearing the Sabres a new one.

On top of that, the Boston feed, which I was forced to listen to due to the Buffalo one not working for some reason, is horrible...just HORRIBLE.
Mega homers, terrible play by play, and sounding like a pair of drunks someone let into the booth by accident.

Aaaanyways, let's go Wild!
I apologize to the entire Wild organization and the fanbase for even THINKING Bos-Buf would be worth a watch over my boys in green... **shudder**

Edwards is the worse play by play guy in the business. Hard to believe he still has a job 

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

1 minute ago, Jimtown guy said:

Edwards is the worse play by play guy in the business. Hard to believe he still has a job 

 

I believe you may be right.
He at least had some competition for that distinction when Paul Steigerwald (Steggy..ugh) called games for the Penguins, but since his retirement from the booth, yea, Edwards is bottom of the barrel all by himself now....and his partner isn't much of a color guy....unless you like the color puke brown...

[Jimtown guy]

Welcome back Middleton

[ClusterChuck]

Good kill but proof we better stay out of the box. That was a clinic even tho they didn't score.

[Jimtown guy]

2 minutes ago, ClusterChuck said:

Good kill but proof we better stay out of the box. That was a clinic even tho they didn't score.

Surprised they didn’t score 

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

Heh..I STILL say Dean Evason reminds me of a TV police captain.

"Find me more evidence of goal scoring! We need more evidence! We can't make an winning arrest without more evidence of offense...hit those streets and don't come back without more evidence!" 

[Jimtown guy]

All Caps the last 10 of that period. Needed the period break 

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

MAF truly does have his own 'style' in the net.

Does he have a background in figure skating?
Because I SWEAR he does pirouettes when making saves  

[Jimtown guy]

[Jimtown guy]

1 minute ago, Jimtown guy said:

All Caps the last 10 of that period. Needed the period break 

Think he and Hasek went to the same goalie camp 

[ClusterChuck]

My feed's a bit fuzzy so #'s are hard to see at times.
Who's paired with Gogs?
Walker and who else is out ?

[SaucyJack]

3 minutes ago, Jimtown guy said:

 

All Caps the last 10 of that period.

 

Caps lack the Striker’s Touch, unfortunately.