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Wild vs Kraken; Thursday 04/18/24; 06:00 PM CT; Xcel Energy Center Arena


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This is the last game #82 for us (team and fans) in this 2023-2024 season. I only expect on home ice a win from this one to have for the team 40 wins; 90 points and a little bit better goals differential, but not -11. An interesting observation for the playoffs teams in Western Conference , none of the 8 teams have negative goals differential but have a nice positive goals differential. And all teams who didn't make the playoffs at Western Conference have negative goals differential. 

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7 hours ago, Alexandron said:

This is the last game #82 for us (team and fans) in this 2023-2024 season. I only expect on home ice a win from this one to have for the team 40 wins; 90 points and a little bit better goals differential, but not -11. An interesting observation for the playoffs teams in Western Conference , none of the 8 teams have negative goals differential but have a nice positive goals differential. And all teams who didn't make the playoffs at Western Conference have negative goals differential. 

By the end of the reg season, They almost always ends up that way. Makes sense.

Since Fleury resigned already, It's not the 'farewell' game... I'd start Wallstedt tonight instead.

For most players doing their last game, They'll either have a Loss or Hoist the Cup.
But I forgot about if not making PO's you can end with a reg season Win.

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41 minutes ago, ClusterChuck said:

By the end of the reg season, They almost always ends up that way. Makes sense.

Since Fleury resigned already, It's not the 'farewell' game... I'd start Wallstedt tonight instead.

For most players doing their last game, They'll either have a Loss or Hoist the Cup.
But I forgot about if not making PO's you can end with a reg season Win.

Like Coyotes did yesterday in their last game in Arizona against Oilers (win with a score 5:2). They are moving to Salt Lake City. And probably we will see hockey there in 5 years.

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Minnesota Wild (39-33-9)  87pts  6th in the Central

 

3.02 Goals For Per Game (21st in the NHL)

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

 

22.3% Power Play (12th in the NHL)

74.6% Penalty Kill (30th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #97 Kirill Kaprizov ~ 45G 50A = 95pts

2. #12 Matt Boldy ~ 29G 38A = 67pts

3. #14 Joel Eriksson Ek ~ 30G 34A = 64pts

4. #7 Brock Faber ~ 7G 39A = 46pts

5. #38 Ryan Hartman ~ 21G 23A = 44pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #5 Jake Middleton ~ 77 PIM's

2. #38 Ryan Hartman ~ 72 PIM's

3. #24 Zach Bogosian ~ 63 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #32 Filip Gustavsson (20-18-4)  3.06GAA  .899%  3SO

2. #29 Marc-Andre Fleury (17-14-5)  2.98GAA  .895%  2SO

 

 

Vs.

 

 

Seattle Kraken (33-35-15)  78pts  6th in the Pacific

 

2.59 Goals For Per Game (29th in the NHL)

2.83 Goals Against Per Game (8th in the NHL)

 

20.5% Power Play (18th in the NHL)

79.4% Penalty Kill (17th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #19 Jared McCann ~ 29G 32A = 61pts

2. #22 Oliver Bjorkstrand ~ 20G 37A = 57pts
3. #7 Jordan Eberle ~ 17G 27A = 44pts

4. #10 Matty Beniers ~ 14G 22A = 36pts

5. #37 Yanni Gourde ~ 9G 22A = 31pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #3 Will Borgen ~ 65 PIM's

2. #37 Yanni Gourde ~ 62 PIM's
3. #6 Adam Larsson ~ 55 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #35 Joey Daccord (18-18-11)  2.45GAA  .916%  3SO

2. #31 Philipp Grubauer (14-16-2)  2.85GAA  .899%  2SO

 

Lines:

 

Seattle Kraken

 

Burakovsky~Beniers~Eberle

McCann~Yamamoto~Schwartz

Kartye~Gourde~Bjorkstrand

Tatar~Bellemare~B. Tanev

 

R. Evans~A. Larsson

Oleksiak~Borgen

Dumoulin~J. Schultz

 

Daccord

Grubauer

 

Minnesota Wild

 

Kaprizov~Eriksson Ek~Boldy

M. Johansson~Rossi~Hartman

Ohgren~Khusnutdinov~F. Gaudreau

Shaw~Lucchini~Chisholm

 

Middleton~Faber

Brodin~Bogosian

Merrill~Goligoski

 

Fleury

Gustavsson

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56 minutes ago, ClusterChuck said:

By the end of the reg season, They almost always ends up that way. Makes sense.

Since Fleury resigned already, It's not the 'farewell' game... I'd start Wallstedt tonight instead.

For most players doing their last game, They'll either have a Loss or Hoist the Cup.
But I forgot about if not making PO's you can end with a reg season Win.

 

Wallstedt played last night in Iowa.  So I am going to guess its Fleury's start.  

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4 hours ago, CreaseAndAssist said:

 

Wallstedt played last night in Iowa.  So I am going to guess its Fleury's start.  

Hynes said this too in his interview. It will be a Fleury start tonight.

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6 hours ago, CreaseAndAssist said:

 

Wallstedt played last night in Iowa.  So I am going to guess its Fleury's start.  

I'll assume maybe Iowa in the PO's ? That's why he's playing there and not here.

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41 minutes ago, ClusterChuck said:

I'll assume maybe Iowa in the PO's ? That's why he's playing there and not here.

Iowa is out of the playoffs. They have two games left. So Wallstedt will get two more games as opposed to one. 

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Just now, Jimtown guy said:

So who ya got to win it all? I’m going with the Rangers over the Stars. The West is going to be fun. Really any team could win it 

Panthers over Canucks or Bruins over Canucks

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