Minnesota Wild @ Pittsburgh Penguins, Thursday 4-6-23, 6:00pm, PPG Paints Arena

[MNSOTA]

Minnesota Wild (44-23-10)  98pts  3rd in the Central

 

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

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

 

21.7% Power Play (13th in the NHL)

81.3% Penalty Kill (12th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #36 Mats Zuccarello ~ 22G 44A = 66pts

2. #14 Joel Eriksson Ek ~ 23G 38A = 61pts

3. #12 Matt Boldy ~ 30G 30A = 60pts

4. #90 Marcus Johansson ~ 16G 25A = 41pts*

5. #89 Frederic Gaudreau ~ 16G 19A = 35pts

 

* - Most of his points are from his time with Washington

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #38 Ryan Hartman ~ 84 PIM's

2. #24 Matt Dumba ~ 77 PIM's

3. #5 Jake Middleton ~ 72 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #32 Filip Gustavsson (20-9-6)  2.03GAA  .932%  3SO

2. #29 Marc-Andre Fleury (24-14-4)  2.82GAA  .910%  2SO

 

 

Vs.

 

 

Pittsburgh Penguins (38-30-10)  86pts  5th in the Metropolitan

 

3.18 Goals For Per Game (17th in the NHL)

3.24 Goals Against Per Game (20th in the NHL)

 

21.1% Power Play (17th in the NHL)

78.7% Penalty Kill (18th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #87 Sidney Crosby ~ 31G 57A = 88pts

2. #71 Evgeni Malkin ~ 25G 55A = 80pts

3. #59 Jake Guentzel ~ 35G 34A = 69pts

4. #67 Rickard Rakell ~ 27G 29A = 56pts

5. #16 Jason Zucker ~ 26G 20A = 46pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #71 Evgeni Malkin ~ 82 PIM's

2. #87 Sidney Crosby ~ 52 PIM's

3. #16 Jason Zucker ~ 45 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #35 Tristan Jarry (22-12-6)  2.99GAA  .908%  2SO

2. #1 Casey DeSmith (15-16-4)  3.17GAA  .905%

 

Lines:

 

Pittsburgh Penguins

 

Guentzel~Crosby~Rust

Zucker~Malkin~Rakell

Heinen~R. Poehling~Granlund

D. O'Connor~Carter~Archibald

 

Dumoulin~Letang

Joseph~Petry

Friedman~Ruhwedel

 

Jarry

DeSmith

 

Minnesota Wild

 

Steel~Hartman~Zuccarello

M. Johansson~Eriksson Ek~Boldy

M. Foligno~F. Gaudreau~Sundqvist

Duhaime~Dewar~Reaves

 

Middleton~Spurgeon

Brodin~Dumba

Merrill~Klingberg

 

Gustavsson

Fleury

[ClusterChuck]

Penquins haven't been playing well lately. 4-6 in last 10 but are the only outside the bubble team with a chance at the PO's.
1 pt away so they have something to play for.
We need to make up that lost point and win this one 4-3.

[Math]

They are trying hard and are still in the ballot to grab one of the two play-off spot out of three teams, which is quite an achievement given a depleted defense. But their goaltending duo cost them a lot of points. Nothing against the Pens but I'd be totally ok with Pittsburgh out of the postseason for the first time since 2005-2006.

[wildstars95]

4-3 pens I have no idea what wild team shows up tonight 

[bbgarnett]

5 hours ago, Math said:

They are trying hard and are still in the ballot to grab one of the two play-off spot out of three teams, which is quite an achievement given a depleted defense. But their goaltending duo cost them a lot of points. Nothing against the Pens but I'd be totally ok with Pittsburgh out of the postseason for the first time since 2005-2006.

yeah it's definitely time for them to start golf season early

[bbgarnett]

5-4 wild in OT

[wildstars95]

Pray to your gods that the wild don't run in to the knights in the playoffs 

[Tomdog]

Watching the pregame show is getting comical with the way they cherry pick statistics.

[bbgarnett]

Geeze take the shot man 

[ClusterChuck]

5 minutes ago, bbgarnett said:

Geeze take the shot man 

Of all times Klinger doesn't shoot. 

[bbgarnett]

1 minute ago, ClusterChuck said:

Of all times Klinger doesn't shoot. 

[ClusterChuck]

Never thought Z00ker would be a hit machine.

[Tomdog]

Gophers 5-2 over BU with 2 minutes to go.

[bbgarnett]

finally we get a chance 

[ClusterChuck]

Just now, bbgarnett said:

finally we get a chance 

...and shot. 

[wildstars95]

[Tomdog]

6-2 gophers

[bbgarnett]

Just now, Tomdog said:

6-2 gophers

[bbgarnett]

Fleury sure does love playing those pucks and just paddling them away.

[bbgarnett]

wow that's a bad one 

[ClusterChuck]

Damn...High glove again.

[bbgarnett]

damn if only Dumba didn't lean into him

[wildstars95]

 fleury again

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

1 minute ago, ClusterChuck said:

Damn...High glove again.

 

What is it with starting Fleury against his old clubs??
Vegas and now Pittsburgh.

One would think, Fleury has been around long enough, has enough of a scouting report, and his former clubs have seen him enough in the past and are familiar enough with his tendencies, that a coach would NOT want him facing Vegas or Pittsburgh.

But maybe that's just me.

[ClusterChuck]

Just now, bbgarnett said:

damn if only Dumba didn't lean into him

And he always leaves his feet a bit. That doesn't help letting the call go.