Minnesota Wild vs Seattle Kraken, Monday 3-27-23, 7:00pm, Xcel Energy Center

[MNSOTA]

Minnesota Wild (42-22-9)  93pts  1st in the Central

 

2.90 Goals For Per Game (23rd in the NHL)

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

 

21.8% Power Play (14th in the NHL)

80.4% Penalty Kill (14th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #36 Mats Zuccarello ~ 22G 42A = 64pts

2. #14 Joel Eriksson Ek ~ 23G 33A = 56pts

3. #12 Matt Boldy ~ 25G 29A = 54pts

4. #90 Marcus Johansson ~ 15G 22A = 37pts*

5. #89 Frederic Gaudreau ~ 14G 19A = 33pts

 

* - Most of these points were from his time in Washington

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #38 Ryan Hartman ~ 82 PIM's

2. #24 Matt Dumba ~ 77 PIM's

3. #15 Mason Shaw ~ 74 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #32 Filip Gustavsson (19-9-5)  2.01GAA  .932%  3SO

2. #29 Marc-Andre Fleury (23-13-4)  2.85GAA  .907%  2SO

 

 

 

Vs.

 

 

 

Seattle Kraken (40-24-8)  88pts  4th in the Pacific

 

3.51 Goals For Per Game (4th in the NHL)

3.15 Goals Against Per Game (16th in the NHL)

 

19.2% Power Play (24th in the NHL)

75% Penalty Kill (26th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #29 Vince Dunn ~ 13G 47A = 60pts

2. #19 Jared McCann ~ 35G 24A = 59pts

3. #7 Jordan Eberle ~ 16G 39A = 55pts

4. #10 Matt Beniers ~ 20G 30A = 50pts

5. #37 Yanni Gourde ~ 11G 33A = 44pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #37 Yanni Gourde ~ 61 PIM's

2. #24 Jamie Oleksiak ~ 61 PIM's

3. #28 Carson Soucy ~ 49 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #31 Philipp Grubauer (14-12-4)  2.99GAA  .892%

2. #30 Martin Jones (24-12-3)  3.06GAA  .887%  3SO

 

Lines:

 

Seattle Kraken

 

McCann~Beniers~Eberle

Schwartz~Wennberg~Geekie

Tolvanen~Gourde~Bjorkstrand

B. Tanev~Donato~Sprong

 

Dunn~A. Larsson

Oleksiak~Borgen

Soucy~Schultz

 

Grubauer

Mar. Jones

 

Minnesota Wild

 

Foligno~Hartman~Zuccarello

M. Johansson~Eriksson Ek~Boldy

Duhaime~F. Gaudreau~Sundqvist

Shaw~Dewar~Reaves

 

Middleton~Spurgeon

Brodin~Dumba

Goligoski~Addison

 

Gustavsson

Fleury

[Alexandron]

It should be a must win revenge game. Nice test chance against a good playoffs team. Last time we lost against Kraken team with a high score 0:4 on our home ice which was not acceptable in front of our fans. Interesting, I just looked for our Conference stats and found that we placed less goals (219) among 8 teams pretending for the playoffs season spot. Oilers probably will reach 300 goals mark at the end of the regular season. They placed 286 goals already. Good news - we had in our net so far less goals too (198) mostly by the help of Gustavsson's outstanding play this season.

[Tomdog]

I think if you asked Bill Guerin he would say there are not any must win games left this season as long as the Wild make the playoffs. 
Which at this point it would be pretty hard to slip out of a wild card spot. 
I think Bill’s main goal is to go into the playoffs healthy and playing sound disciplined hockey. 
Winning the division is nice, but really doesn’t matter if they lose in the first round. 

[wildstars95]

As of today this is our first round opponent ...must show them who's gonna be boss in this series  5-3 wild

[ClusterChuck]

2 hours ago, wildstars95 said:

As of today this is our first round opponent ...must show them who's gonna be boss in this series  5-3 wild

Agree.
Kraken can score so if Fleury's in net we'll probably need 4-5 to win.
Was going to go 5-3 also but I'll go with 5-4 Wild win.
 

[Alexandron]

2 hours ago, ClusterChuck said:

Agree.
Kraken can score so if Fleury's in net we'll probably need 4-5 to win.
Was going to go 5-3 also but I'll go with 5-4 Wild win.
 

I will go with same score 5:4(probably in OT or SO) because Fleury is in the net. Still I would prefer Gustavsson in the net because of his solid play so far and who was again a star of the week last week. I do not think we would make a playoffs without his outstanding play this season. He was able to steal lots of games for us. His GAA 2.01; .932 are making an impressive sense.

Edited March 27, 2023 by Alexandron

[Alexandron]

7 hours ago, Tomdog said:

I think if you asked Bill Guerin he would say there are not any must win games left this season as long as the Wild make the playoffs. 
Which at this point it would be pretty hard to slip out of a wild card spot. 
I think Bill’s main goal is to go into the playoffs healthy and playing sound disciplined hockey. 
Winning the division is nice, but really doesn’t matter if they lose in the first round. 

My main reason for a must win games at this moment is not a winning the division but to keep pace and build the chemistry for such a kind of new team for us. We have got recently 4 new players : Klingberg; Johansson; Sundqvist and Nyquist  plus we have got Reaves at the end of November. I am still worry about Nyquist fit into the team during the playoffs. Is he capable to fit well and where? Not sure. The 4th line (Dewar-Shaw-Reaves) is pretty good and productive so far.

[Jimtown guy]

Kraken have gotten to be a team I enjoy following. No superstars just guys who buy into team mentality. That and I’m a bit biased since they have a former player and coach for the UND in Hakstol. They were calling for his head back in December. With that said the hell with them tonight. Wild 6-4 with an empty netter 

[Tomdog]

They are going to have some really tough choices to make on who plays and who sits when the playoffs start. 
Unfortunately the goalie choice probably has been made and I’m afraid it will be Fluery. 

[bbgarnett]

1 hour ago, Tomdog said:

They are going to have some really tough choices to make on who plays and who sits when the playoffs start. 
Unfortunately the goalie choice probably has been made and I’m afraid it will be Fluery. 

It sure as hell better not be Fleury

[ClusterChuck]

Well, One team has been sending a message...

[ClusterChuck]

9 minutes ago, bbgarnett said:

It sure as hell better not be Fleury

He'll start GM 1 for sure but this time depending on how it goes, I'd only give the 2nd and then go to Gus.
I'd rather alternate to mix up the opposition so they don't get used to Fleury.

[wildstars95]

someone wanna let the wild know there's a game on tonight 

[Jimtown guy]

Flower on his game so far 

[bbgarnett]

Fleury!!!

[Jimtown guy]

Kraken really showing their speed 

[Jimtown guy]

Middleton!!!!!

[ClusterChuck]

Midds !@!

[bbgarnett]

Middleton!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bbgarnett]

Great screen

[ClusterChuck]

It's not so much the trip but allowing them to walk right in like that.

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

I KNEW Middleton had it in him to be a prolific scorer!!  

[bbgarnett]

Just now, TropicalFruitGirl26 said:

I KNEW Middleton had it in him to be a prolific scorer!!  

Reaves is teaching him well 

[Jimtown guy]

I finally won our beer league fantasy hockey league last night beating my opponent 5-4. It’s been a long time a coming. 200 bucks to blow on something 

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

1 minute ago, bbgarnett said:

Reaves is teaching him well 

 

No kidding!

Reaves, Middleton, Gaudreau....we don't need no stinkin Kaprizov!