Minnesota Wild @ Chicago Blackhawks, Monday 4-10-23, 8:00pm, United Center

[MNSOTA]

Minnesota Wild (45-24-10)  100pts  3rd in the Central

 

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

2.66 Goals Against Per Game (5th in the NHL)

 

21.7% Power Play (14th in the NHL)

81.4% Penalty Kill (11th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #97 Kirill Kaprizov ~ 39G 35A = 74pts

2. #36 Mats Zuccarello ~ 22G 45A = 67pts

3. #12 Matt Boldy ~ 30G 31A = 61pts

4. #90 Marcus Johansson ~ 17G 25A = 42pts

5. #89 Frederic Gaudreau ~ 17G 19A = 36pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #38 Ryan Hartman ~ 84 PIM's

2. #24 Matt Dumba ~ 79 PIM's

3. #5 Jake Middleton ~ 72 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #32 Filip Gustavsson (21-9-6)  2.06GAA  .932%  3SO

2. #29 Marc-Andre Fleury (24-15-4)  2.84GAA  .909%  2SO

 

 

 

Vs.

 

 

 

Chicago Blackhawks (25-48-6)  56pts  8th in the Central

 

2.42 Goals For Per Game (32nd in the NHL)

3.65 Goals Against Per Game (27th in the NHL)

 

16.4% Power Play (29th in the NHL)

76.2% Penalty Kill (21st in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #4 Seth Jones ~ 12G 23A = 36pts

2. #19 Jonathan Toews ~ 14G 16A = 30pts

3. #90 Tyler Johnson ~ 11G 19A = 30pts

4. #17 Jason Dickinson ~ 9G 20A = 29pts

5. #27 Lukas Reichel ~ 7G 8A = 15pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #5 Connor Murphy ~ 69 PIM's

2. #19 Jonathan Toews ~ 41 PIM's

3. #25 Jarred Tinordi ~ 40 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #32 Alex Stalock (9-14-1)  2.92GAA  .912%  2SO

2. #34 Petr Mrazek (9-22-3)  3.71GAA  .892%

 

Lines:

 

Chicago Blackhawks

 

L. Reichel~J. Toews~Bjork

T. Johnson~?~Dickinson

Katchouk~Khaira~Joe. Anderson

Wagner~Entwistle~R. Johnson

 

C. Jone~S. Jones

A. Vlasic~Murphy

Tinordi~Kaiser

 

Mrazek

Stalock

 

Minnesota Wild

 

Steel~Hartman~Zuccarello

M. Johansson~Rossi~Boldy

M. Foligno~F. Gaudreau~Nyquist

Duhaime~Dewar~Reaves

 

Middleton~Spurgeon

Brodin~Dumba

Merrill~Klingberg

 

Fleury

Gustavsson

[Icechipper]

Potentially see No. 7, Brock Faber, on the blueline 

[ClusterChuck]

Av's keep winning so to have a remote chance of getting 1st,  We'll have to sweep these last 3 games and get a lot of help.
Wild Win tonight...

5-3 -Fleury
5-2 -Gutavsson

[Alexandron]

According to Russo, Kaprizov, Zuccarello, Spurgeon and Brodin remained in Minnesota for this game. Interesting what lines we are going to have tonight. Expecting our win with a score 3:2. Still would like to see Kaprizov's 40th goal in remaining games of this regular season. It seems we are going to finish 3rd in our Division. 

[IllaZilla]

Kaprizov was never going to play two games in a row. And the rest of them are banged up and are being rested for the playoffs seeings that home ice is out the window. Not sure why Zuccarello needs a rest, he's played like crap for over a month...

[Tomdog]

2 hours ago, IllaZilla said:

Not sure why Zuccarello needs a rest, he's played like crap for over a month...

Maybe that's why he's played like crap?

On the plus side, I think it's fair to say that Matt Dumba is looking like an NHL defenseman again. 

[Tomdog]

Wild projected lineup

Marcus Johansson -- Frederick Gaudreau -- Matt Boldy

Gustav Nyquist -- Sam Steel -- Marcus Foligno

Nic Petan -- Marco Rossi -- Ryan Hartman

Brandon Duhaime -- Connor Dewar -- Ryan Reaves

Jake Middleton -- Calen Addison

Alex Goligoski -- Brock Faber

Jon Merrill -- John Klingberg

Filip Gustavsson

Marc-Andre Fleury

Scratched:  Kirill Kaprizov, Mats Zuccarello, Jared Spurgeon, Jonas Brodin, Matt Dumba

Injured: Joel Eriksson Ek (lower body), Oskar Sundqvist (lower body)

 

This from gamecenter on nhl's website.

[Tomdog]

After further reading Gus is in net tonight. 

Hopefully this is not setup fr Fleury to start playoffs. 

[wildstars95]

 should be a real barn burner tonight 3-2 wild

[IllaZilla]

This is a game they should annihilate the Blackhawks, but they will make it harder than it needs to be. It’ll

be a 1-0 or 2-1. 

[bbgarnett]

4 hours ago, Tomdog said:

After further reading Gus is in net tonight. 

Hopefully this is not setup fr Fleury to start playoffs. 

 

 

[ClusterChuck]

Why is the Nat feed showing WNBA drafts 

[bbgarnett]

Just now, ClusterChuck said:

Why is the Nat feed showing WNBA drafts 

Well that's the only feed too so hopefully they turn to hockey since the WNBA draft is just wrapping up now.

[ClusterChuck]

Just now, bbgarnett said:

Well that's the only feed too so hopefully they turn to hockey since the WNBA draft is just wrapping up now.

There's the usual over analysis after. 

[Tomdog]

Biggest mistake the NHL ever did was associating themselves with espn

[IllaZilla]

1 minute ago, Tomdog said:

Biggest mistake the NHL ever did was associating themselves with espn

No, that would be the Fanatics association…

[ClusterChuck]

We're not helping the Hawks in their tanking by resting so many starters.

[ClusterChuck]

1 minute ago, IllaZilla said:

No, that would be the Fanatics association…

That too.

[bbgarnett]

1 minute ago, IllaZilla said:

No, that would be the Fanatics association…

No that would actually be 

 

 

 

 

[IllaZilla]

Holy crap! Rossi and Faber are in…

[IllaZilla]

Just now, bbgarnett said:

No that would actually be 

 

 

 

 

Well, yes, but that’s shooting fish in a barrel…

[bbgarnett]

1 minute ago, IllaZilla said:

Holy crap! Rossi and Faber are in…

well with no Kaprizov, Zucc, Hartman, Spurgeon, Dumba, Brodin, you kind of need the bodies.

Edited April 11, 2023 by bbgarnett

[IllaZilla]

5 minutes ago, ClusterChuck said:

We're not helping the Hawks in their tanking by resting so many starters.

He, he, he!

[bbgarnett]

some guy on Twitter was angry that were resting a bunch of guys, he said he paid a thousand dollars for a ticket to the game for him and his son and now his son is going to be disappointed not to the the stars. 

[IllaZilla]

They must really hate Addison…