Round 1, Game 1: Minnesota Wild @ Dallas Stars, Monday 4-17-23, 8:30pm, American Airlines Center

[Alexandron]

Nyquist is pretty active tonight and 1 assist. Steel 1st playoffs game and his 1st NHL goal.

[EmptyShelf]

Middleton with the 4 tooth gap and stache looks like a throwback playoff D.  He needs to play well/rough, as Spurgeon can get overpowered.

[EmptyShelf]

Brodin is just $$

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

Working FOR the Wild, and hopefully, getting the Game 2 start no matter how this one ends up, is Gustavsson being calm, cool, and collected through all this.

Guy isn't fighting the puck, isn't getting himself grossly out of position due to nerves or anything else, and still coming up with big saves as if he's done this a BUNCH of times before.

That is the kind of goaltending this team hasn't seen in just about all its existence.

Sometimes he screws up and lets one in that he would probably tell you himself he should have stopped, but I see no fear, quit, or sloppiness to his game.
If the Wild as a team can't take cues from their 24 yr old netminder, then I dunno what to say about that...

[Alexandron]

Dallas is pressing heavily now.

[bbgarnett]

Geeze clear the puck 

[Jimtown guy]

Come on Lou 

[EmptyShelf]

W O W ......Better to be lucky than good sometimes.

[bbgarnett]

wow they called Embellishment

[Alexandron]

We do not need this penalty.

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

Just now, Alexandron said:

We do not need this penalty.

 

Do we really need ANY of them?? 

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

1 minute ago, EmptyShelf said:

W O W ......Better to be lucky than good sometimes.

 

Yep.
A good goalie will ALWAYS create his own luck.  

[bbgarnett]

1 minute ago, TropicalFruitGirl26 said:

 

Yep.
A good goalie will ALWAYS create his own luck.  

and a Lucky Goalie makes out with the posts

[Jimtown guy]

There’s that limpy wrister 

[EmptyShelf]

Why isn't Suter embarrassed by taking that bitch wrister?!?

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

1 minute ago, bbgarnett said:

and a Lucky Goalie makes out with the posts

 

Well, yea, there is that too....  

[EmptyShelf]

Lou Ferrigno showing his stones.

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

Hmmm.....seems Dumba is getting the big "booos" now every time he touches the puck.

I wonder if the Dallas players will buy into that and try to make Dumba a focus of their ire all series.
If that happens, then Dumba may have FINALLY found a way to contribute regularly to this team by playing agitator without doing anything else in the series.

I would think the Dallas coaching staff and players would be smarter than that, but, one can always hope they aren't.
I nominate Dumba for the Brad Marchand Award for Most Bristly Player on the Ice!!  

[Jimtown guy]

Great clear by Faber 

[EmptyShelf]

Faber just cleaned it up for Brodin.  Kid's going to be a player.  Held his ground, no flinch, and a nice breakout pass.

[wildstars95]

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

Before the puck dropped, the analysts were saying the Wild's one big advantage over Dallas was the raw physicality they can bring.

At first, I thought that was more cliche talk....but, you know, Minnesota really is living up to that.

[EmptyShelf]

Alright Reeves.  Find Suter.  The shim just clipped 97.  Cave in his face.

[Jimtown guy]

All Stars now 

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

2 minutes ago, EmptyShelf said:

Faber just cleaned it up for Brodin.  Kid's going to be a player.  Held his ground, no flinch, and a nice breakout pass.

 

As long as Faber doesn't turn pucks over like Fiala turning over brats on a grill, I am happy with the trade Minnesota made!