Round 1, Game 5: Minnesota Wild @ Dallas Stars, Tuesday 4-25-23, 7:00pm, American Airlines Center

[MNSOTA]

Series tied 2-2

 

Minnesota Wild

 

3.25 Goals For Per Game (7th in the NHL)

3.25 Goals Against Per Game (10th in the NHL)

 

23.5% Power Play (9th in the NHL)

56.3% Penalty Kill (15th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #38 Ryan Hartman ~ 2G 3A = 5pts

2. #36 Mats Zuccarello ~ 2G 3A = 5pts

3. #3 John Klingberg ~ 1G 3A = 4pts

4. #28 Gustav Nyquist ~ 0G 4A = 4pts

5. #12 Matt Boldy ~ 0G 3A = 3pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #17 Marcus Foligno ~ 20 PIM's

2. #75 Ryan Reaves~ 14 PIM's

3. #97 Kirill Kaprizov ~ 12 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #32 Filip Gustavsson (2-1)  1.72GAA  .941%

2. #29 Marc Andre Fleury (0-1)  7.00GAA  .774%

 

 

 

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Dallas Stars 

 

3.25 Goals For Per Game (9th in the NHL)

3.25 Goals Against Per Game (9th in the NHL)

 

43.8% Power Play (2nd in the NHL)

76.5% Penalty Kill (8th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #24 Roope Hintz ~ 4G 4A = 8pts

2. #4 Miro Heiskanen ~ 0G 5A = 5pts

3. #21 Jason Robertson ~ 1G 3A = 4pts

4. #14 Jamie Benn ~ 1G 3A = 4pts

5. #91 Tyler Seguin ~ 3G 0A = 3pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #18 Max Domi ~ 24 PIM's

2. #14 Jamie Benn ~ 12 PIM's

3. #20 Ryan Suter ~ 10 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #29 Jake Oettinger (2-2)  2.68GAA  .909%

2. #41 Scott Wedgewood  N/A

 

Lines:

 

Dallas Stars

 

Robertson~Hintz~Seguin

Ja. Benn~Johnston~Dadonov

Marchment~Domi~Dellandrea

Kiviranta~Faksa~Glendening

 

R. Suter~Heiskanen

Lindell~Hakanpaa

Harley~Hanley

 

Oettinger

Wedgewood

 

Minnesota Wild

 

Kaprizov~Hartman~Zuccarello

M. Johansson~Steel~Boldy

M. Foligno~F. Gaudreau~Nyquist

Duhaime~Dewar~Reaves

 

Middleton~Spurgeon

Brodin~Dumba

Klingberg~Faber

 

Gustavsson

Fleury

[Alexandron]

No doubt, crucial a must win game for us. Gustavsson must be in net tonight. His GAA these series 1.72; 0.941% vs Fleury's 7.00; 0.774%.

[Alexandron]

We should not blame on Kaprizov(1 goal) and Boldy (0 goals) so far these series. Playoffs is a different level of animal (for me is battle of gladiators).  I just looked for stats of the best player this regular season McDavid (64 goals) who is having so far 2 goals these series. And Robertson is not the best too (1 goal) in 4 games, but had 46 goals this regular season. Playoffs is mainly an outstanding team's play and win is also a team's win. Does not matter who place goals for the team's win.

[wildstars95]

 playing the right way get's us penalty's , can't hit and finish checks is scary ..... 4-3 wild 

[Alexandron]

1 hour ago, wildstars95 said:

 playing the right way get's us penalty's , can't hit and finish checks is scary ..... 4-3 wild 

Because of who? Referees?

[Alexandron]

Sincerely, I do not care about Dallas team if it will pass to the next round despite of having a Minnesota native goalie and/or because it was our former team North Stars. It is a playoffs, and nothing else is matter. We must to win this round just to show that we are a better team than Stars.

I was working recently at different hospitals and many fans from there are going to see at arena our home game on Friday. Everyone was believing into our win because they are still trust to our goalie and experienced team around him. I did not see there anyone who was skeptical. Wow.

[Alexandron]

Michael Russo Retweeted

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Things didn’t end pleasantly for John Klingberg in Dallas. He loves the playoffs and hopes to help the Wild advance past the first round for the first time since 2015. The only thing standing in his way? The Stars, writes @RussoHockey.

 

I like a lot this motivation!!!!

[Alexandron]

Probably not only entire Minnesota and Texas will be watching this game but entire Sweden, because we have lots of players from Sweden in comparison to other teams and they are our stars too-  Johansson, Nyquist, Klingberg, Brodin, Gustavsson, EEK(unfortunately injured). Without them we would not compete as well against Dallas. No doubt.

[ClusterChuck]

Like Foligno said, "We've already won here on their ice, Time to do it again"
Have to do it at least 1 more time so, No better time than tonight.
I'll go with the Wild win 5-3 

[Jimtown guy]

On my way to my beer league team’s favorite pub to watch game. I may post a bit or may not. Regardless Wild find a way and win 4-3 in overtime 

Edited April 25, 2023 by Jimtown guy

[ClusterChuck]

1 minute ago, Jimtown guy said:

On my way to my beer league team’s favorite pub to watch game. I may post a bit or may not. Regardless Wild find a way and 4-3 in overtime 

Sounds like a great way to watch it. Enjoy !!

[bbgarnett]

LFG

[bbgarnett]

Oh Steel

[ClusterChuck]

This isn't how you want to start a game. Missed breakaway and now Foligno gets a possible major.

[wildstars95]

  here we go again....

[ClusterChuck]

Wow...This hurts big time.

[Jimtown guy]

This is going to get ugly. I’m out 

[wildstars95]

     k not so bad now  

[ClusterChuck]

Still out Foligno, So somebody needs to step up. 

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

Tuned in just when Foligno was being booted....what did he do??

[bbgarnett]

1 minute ago, TropicalFruitGirl26 said:

Tuned in just when Foligno was being booted....what did he do??

they called 5 minutes and a game for Kneeing 

[Alexandron]

Zuccarello had a nice shot.

Tough start. We should stay out of penalty box. 

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

1 minute ago, bbgarnett said:

they called 5 minutes and a game for Kneeing 

 

Good for Muy Thai....not so much for hockey....

[wildstars95]

are these the same ref's from the other night ...you know the ones that were kicked from the toronto series 

[ClusterChuck]

That hit by Foligno was the type of hit Dumba would do. Didn't expect him to do that one that way. Wasn't smart overall knowing he's been marked already by the refs.