Minnesota Wild @ Colorado Avalanche, Wednesday 3-29-23, 9:00pm, Ball Arena

[MNSOTA]

Minnesota Wild (43-22-9)  95pts  1st in the Central

 

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

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

 

21.9% Power Play (12th in the NHL)

80.6% Penalty Kill (13th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #36 Mats Zuccarello ~ 22G 43A = 65pts

2. #14 Joel Eriksson Ek ~ 23G 35A = 58pts

3. #12 Matt Boldy ~ 28G 29A = 57pts

4. #90 Marcus Johansson ~ 15G 24A = 39pts*

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

 

* - Most of his statistics were accrued when he was with Washington

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #38 Ryan Hartman ~ 82 PIM's

2. #15 Mason Shaw ~ 79 PIM's

3. #24 Matt Dumba ~ 77 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

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

2. #29 Marc-Andre Fleury (24-13-4)  2.81GAA  .909%  2SO

 

 

Vs.

 

 

Colorado Avalanche (44-23-6)  94pts  2nd in the Central

 

3.27 Goals For Per Game (13th in the NHL)

2.71 Goals Against Per Game (6th in the NHL)

 

25.7% Power Play (3rd in the NHL)

79.5% Penalty Kill (16th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #29 Nathan MacKinnon ~ 32G 63A = 95pts

2. #96 Mikko Rantanen ~ 48G 40A = 88pts

3. #8 Cale Makar ~ 17G 49A = 66pts

4. #37 J.T. Compher ~ 16G 32A = 48pts

5. #13 Valeri Nichushkin ~ 16G 27A = 43pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #96 Mikko Rantanen ~ 66 PIM's

2. #11 Andrew Cogliano ~ 38 PIM's

3. #25 Logan O'Connor ~ 35 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #40 Alexandar Georgiev (34-15-5)  2.54GAA  .919%  5SO

2. #31 Jonas Johansson (2-0-0)  2.10GAA  .932%

 

Lines:

 

Colorado Avalanche

 

Nichushkin~MacKinnon~Rantanen

Newhook~Compher~Rodrigues

Malgin~Eller~Nieto

Cogliano~Helm~L. O'Connor

 

D. Toews~Makar

Girard~Byram

J. Johnson~E. Johnson

 

Georgiev

J. Johansson

 

Minnesota Wild

 

M. Foligno~Hartman~Zuccarello

M. Johansson~Eriksson Ek~Boldy

Duhaime~F. Gaudreau~Sundqvist

Shaw~Dewar~Reaves / Steel?

 

Middleton~Spurgeon

Brodin~Dumba

Merrill~Goligoski

 

Gustavsson

Fleury

[ClusterChuck]

Forget that...
Stars and Av's are sitting in the bed of our truck now.
We can push one off tonight with a Wild Win 5-3.

[wildstars95]

statement game tonight, last game fleury let 3 soft goals in.

must beat these buggers in their own barn tonight 4-3 

[Tomdog]

Important game tonight. The winner in regulation will probably determine the seeding between these two teams and possibly the division. 

[Icechipper]

Watching 1-1 snoozer Isles vs. Caps. Parise is buzzing. Parise is 38 and has  21 goals this year. Boldy is 21 and has 28. Wild pay both of these guys 

[ClusterChuck]

12 minutes ago, Icechipper said:

Watching 1-1 snoozer Isles vs. Caps. Parise is buzzing. Parise is 38 and has  21 goals this year. Boldy is 21 and has 28. Wild pay both of these guys 

Of course we have a late 2nd National game and this one has to go OT. 

[Tomdog]

Another OT so the Wild game will probably be delayed. 

I have an idea, let's get rid of the tie games.

If the game is tied at the end of regulation neither team gets a point, it's just listed as a tie. 

Basically both teams lost the game if it's tied.

[ClusterChuck]

3 minutes ago, Tomdog said:

Another OT so the Wild game will probably be delayed. 

I have an idea, let's get rid of the tie games.

If the game is tied at the end of regulation neither team gets a point, it's just listed as a tie. 

Basically both teams lost the game if it's tied.

Dramatic for the reg season and it would make the last of the 3rd mean something again for once. 

[ClusterChuck]

What a joke that first SO attempt...I think there should be an opposing chaser to speed the scorer up. 

[wildstars95]

3 minutes ago, ClusterChuck said:

What a joke that first SO attempt...I think there should be an opposing chaser to speed the scorer up. 

 or chase em down with this

[Math]

All Avs jerseys are terrible but this one is particularly hideous.

[wildstars95]

enough losing to these pricks 

[bbgarnett]

Damn Mojo!!!!!!!!!

[ClusterChuck]

I knew Reaves wasn't going to play but what happened to DuHaime ??

Mo-Jo !!!!

[Tomdog]

Wow

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

Wild starting this game like they don't care WHO is out for them, and not really caring the Avalanche are the defending SC Champions.

Good for them!

Take it to those jokers!

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

Delayed penalty...really?

Minnesota taking it TOO much to the Avs the refs had to call that weak penalty?

Cmon boys...PK time.

[wildstars95]

we have some voices in the crowd 

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

Colorado tries an entry....Wild say, "Not without dinner and a movie first!"  

Fantastic PK. Avs got NOTHING...and didn't like it.
Even though Gus had to make a good stop at the end of it.

[ClusterChuck]

Great Kill 

[Tomdog]

I still don't understand why they would dress 7 defenseman instead of playing Steel.

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

Just now, Tomdog said:

I still don't understand why they would dress 7 defenseman instead of playing Steel.

 

Agreed. 
I don't like that 3 and a half lines thing.

[ClusterChuck]

Hah...The one Ref staring right at it didn't call it. 

[bbgarnett]

Just now, ClusterChuck said:

Hah...The one Ref staring right at it didn't call it. 

well it wasn't actually a penalty we got lucky though that the other ref thought it was.

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

Boldy draws a tripping penalty.
Good.

Was starting to think only the Avs were gonna get the benefit of those calls.