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Minnesota Wild vs Columbus Blue Jackets, Saturday 1-19-19, 8:00pm, Xcel Energy Center

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Strong Effort Carries Wild to 2-1 Win Over Columbus

 

One of their better efforts all season.  Strong at both ends of the ice.  If Bobrovsky wasn't sharp we win this one 4-1 or 5-1.  Greenway continues to show good scoring touch as well as strength.  Zucker worked hard, just couldn't find time and space.  Rask was ok, hot horrible but not a stand out beyond that late game draw he won cleanly.  Aberg needs to keep shooting.  Belpedio looked good and Pateryn seemed more comfortable on the 3rd pairing.  Big win, full game recap, Iowa Wild highlights and prospect updates.  Enjoy... 

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2 hours ago, rottenrefs said:

@Bear but he hit the pipe once so he along with Aberg will keep sharing time with our $9 million dollar 3rd liner Parise.

Doubt the Swedes demanded this combo so you might want to send a personal e-mail to BB... 😉

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9 hours ago, Hockey-78 said:

Doubt the Swedes demanded this combo so you might want to send a personal e-mail to BB... 😉

It was a jab at the organization.

 

Nino was their 2nd highest scorer over the past 6 years and they dumped him. BB's explanation was he wasn't a good fit. Essentially based on Nino being left handed playing right wing and his $5.25 million dollar contract was too high for a 4th liner. So using the highest paid player on the team (Parise) on the 3rd line is what?

 

Most teams wouldn't give a sh!t if a player with those kinds of numbers had one leg, four arms and a nasty skin rash... They'd make sure to use him to their advantage rather than find reasons or excuses to dump him. Pure and simple, no other right winger on the team has numbers near what Nino has put up... AND none of them were bounced around on all four lines playing alongside whatever other garbage players they could find, bouncing him from right to left wing while still being their 2nd highest goal scorer.

 

This is another example of the organization not being capable of utilizing a players strengths to their advantage.

 

Worse yet is the Wild don't have anyone even remotely close to picking up his goals (and they're not even that impressive) and the really harsh truth is the Wild keep taking average 3rd line type players like Nino and playing them in top-6 roles and saying they aren't meeting their expectations. If the Nino's of the world fail to crack the top-6, who is? No one, no right winger on this team is near matching his goal scoring (in 6 years) and they're left with Granlund, Kunin, J.T. Brown and Hendricks for right wingers. Who the f_ck are they trying to fool?

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@rottenrefs I can't disagree. We are stuck in this cr4ppy situation for 3-4 more years I'd say due to 'decisions' made by prior *cough* individuals... (Possibly Parise/Suter don't play out the full contracts and retire to enjoy their $$)

Fenton is going to have to be a miracle worker with what he has to work with.

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39 minutes ago, ClusterChuck said:

@rottenrefs I can't disagree. We are stuck in this cr4ppy situation for 3-4 more years I'd say due to 'decisions' made by prior *cough* individuals... (Possibly Parise/Suter don't play out the full contracts and retire to enjoy their $$)

Fenton is going to have to be a miracle worker with what he has to work with.

Fletcher's moves, Fenton's moves... A seasoned head coach frustrated beyond measure at times (most the time)... Multiple foolish, totally unexplained decisions from player line-ups, to trades, to acquisitions, stupid drafts, asinine contracts... Bizarre poor performances against crappy teams, to beating teams far better than ours...

 

Points to who?

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12 hours ago, Hockey-78 said:

Any different to Nino...

yes there is 

2 hours ago, rottenrefs said:

It was a jab at the organization.

 

Nino was their 2nd highest scorer over the past 6 years and they dumped him. BB's explanation was he wasn't a good fit. Essentially based on Nino being left handed playing right wing and his $5.25 million dollar contract was too high for a 4th liner. So using the highest paid player on the team (Parise) on the 3rd line is what?

 

Most teams wouldn't give a sh!t if a player with those kinds of numbers had one leg, four arms and a nasty skin rash... They'd make sure to use him to their advantage rather than find reasons or excuses to dump him. Pure and simple, no other right winger on the team has numbers near what Nino has put up... AND none of them were bounced around on all four lines playing alongside whatever other garbage players they could find, bouncing him from right to left wing while still being their 2nd highest goal scorer.

 

This is another example of the organization not being capable of utilizing a players strengths to their advantage.

 

Worse yet is the Wild don't have anyone even remotely close to picking up his goals (and they're not even that impressive) and the really harsh truth is the Wild keep taking average 3rd line type players like Nino and playing them in top-6 roles and saying they aren't meeting their expectations. If the Nino's of the world fail to crack the top-6, who is? No one, no right winger on this team is near matching his goal scoring (in 6 years) and they're left with Granlund, Kunin, J.T. Brown and Hendricks for right wingers. Who the f_ck are they trying to fool?

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6 hours ago, rottenrefs said:

It was a jab at the organization.

 

Nino was their 2nd highest scorer over the past 6 years and they dumped him. BB's explanation was he wasn't a good fit. Essentially based on Nino being left handed playing right wing and his $5.25 million dollar contract was too high for a 4th liner. So using the highest paid player on the team (Parise) on the 3rd line is what?

 

Most teams wouldn't give a sh!t if a player with those kinds of numbers had one leg, four arms and a nasty skin rash... They'd make sure to use him to their advantage rather than find reasons or excuses to dump him. Pure and simple, no other right winger on the team has numbers near what Nino has put up... AND none of them were bounced around on all four lines playing alongside whatever other garbage players they could find, bouncing him from right to left wing while still being their 2nd highest goal scorer.

 

This is another example of the organization not being capable of utilizing a players strengths to their advantage.

 

Worse yet is the Wild don't have anyone even remotely close to picking up his goals (and they're not even that impressive) and the really harsh truth is the Wild keep taking average 3rd line type players like Nino and playing them in top-6 roles and saying they aren't meeting their expectations. If the Nino's of the world fail to crack the top-6, who is? No one, no right winger on this team is near matching his goal scoring (in 6 years) and they're left with Granlund, Kunin, J.T. Brown and Hendricks for right wingers. Who the f_ck are they trying to fool?

 

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