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Wild vs. Blues 2/17/19 @ 2:00PM CST at the X


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Wild vs. Blues Game Preview

 

Minnesota Wild (27-25-6)  60pts  5th in the Central

2.81 Goals For Per Game (23rd in the NHL)

2.93 Goals Against Per Game (14th in the NHL)

 

21.4% Power Play (12th in the NHL)

81.6% Penalty Kill (12th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #11 Zach Parise ~ 23G 26A = 49pts

2. #64 Mikael Granlund ~ 14G 34A = 48pts

3. #20 Ryan Suter ~ 6G 34A = 40pts

4. #12 Eric Staal ~ 17G 20A = 37pts

5. #46 Jared Spurgeon ~ 11G 25A = 36pts

 

Top 3 PIM’s:

1. #36 Nick Seeler ~ 47 PIM’s

2. #17 Marcus Foligno ~ 40 PIM’s

3. #29 Greg Pateryn ~ 35 PIM’s

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #40 Devan Dubnyk (21-20-5)  2.67GAA  .909%SP  1SO

2. #32 Alex Stalock (6-5-1)  3.00GAA  .892%SP

 

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St. Louis Blues (30-22-5)  65pts  3rd in the Central

2.93 Goals For Per Game (18th in the NHL)

2.82 Goals Against Per Game (7th in the NHL)

 

18.5% Power Play (18th in the NHL)

79.2% Penalty Kill (21st in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #90 Ryan O’Reilly ~ 21G 36A = 57pts

2. #91 Vladimir Tarasenko ~ 24G 22A = 46pts

3. #10 Brayden Schenn ~ 10G 26A = 36pts

4. #27 Alex Pietrangelo ~ 8G 16A = 24pts

5. #29 Vince Dunn ~ 7G 17A = 24pts

 

Top 3 PIM’s:

1. #6 Joel Edmundson ~ 60 PIM’s

2. #7 Patrick Maroon ~ 52 PIM’s

3. #29 Vince Dunn ~ 33 PIM’s

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #30 Jordan Binnington (11-1-1)  1.69GAA  .931%SP  3SO

2. #34 Jake Allen (16-15-4)  3.07GAA  .898%SP  1SO

 

I wrote up the game preview and I will be writing up the post-gamer as well.  I watched some games last night and there are some interesting things that came to mind.  The Blues are playing their best hockey of the season right now, with a hot goalie.  The Wild are well...playing about as poorly as they did since the days shortly before they canned Yeo.  This is a big game on a number of different levels, but will this club show up and its big money forwards (beyond Parise) show up and play and produce today?  Or will they continue to be passengers and the kids and Parise will have to somehow try to put enough together offensively to earn a win?  

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54 minutes ago, Hockey-78 said:

I have a nasty suspicion that even though at home we're downright going to suck against the Blues. Hopefull they'll let Allen start.

 

Prove me wrong, Wild!

Allen shut out Colorado tomorrow.  You guys are going down.  10 in a row for the Blues a coming

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Well, if the Wild hold true to form of playing up or down to the competition, following that awful, awful loss against the Devils, they should play a SC contender's game against the red hot 9-game consecutive winning Blues today, right?

Tall order, given what  has been going on with the Wild.

But how sweet would it be to put an end to the Blues streak at 9? Very.

 

Let's go Wild....show up for 60 minutes....maybe 65......
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The Blues are the perfect team for the Wild to beat. Whether in a shut-out, a close game, a couple goals ahead or a boatload.

 

It all depends on how the stars all align. Did each player go to bed last night drifting off while looking at certain stars in the night sky? Did they hear voices? Whispers?

 

Did they eat one too many grapes? Wake up with, or without an alarm clock?

 

Did they put a sock on their left foot first, or their right foot first? Holy mother of Jesus let's hope they didn't get confused with that one!

 

Is every player going to show up and play 60 minutes? No one in the universe understands or can comprehend this quirky inability... As it's been brought up now weekly for about 5-6 years. (Okay I'm embellishing that. It's been longer.)

 

Maybe shave Dubnyk's eyebrows so he 'feels' more 'eyes wide open.' Frankly I'm getting pretty tired of hearing how damn good he is after watching footage of him supposedly tracking the puck up high over his mitt or blocker, as it goes thru the 5-hole down low; or vice versa.

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33 minutes ago, rottenrefs said:

The Blues are the perfect team for the Wild to beat. Whether in a shut-out, a close game, a couple goals ahead or a boatload.

 

It all depends on how the stars all align. Did each player go to bed last night drifting off while looking at certain stars in the night sky? Did they hear voices? Whispers?

 

Did they eat one too many grapes? Wake up with, or without an alarm clock?

 

Did they put a sock on their left foot first, or their right foot first? Holy mother of Jesus let's hope they didn't get confused with that one!

 

Is every player going to show up and play 60 minutes? No one in the universe understands or can comprehend this quirky inability... As it's been brought up now weekly for about 5-6 years. (Okay I'm embellishing that. It's been longer.)

 

Maybe shave Dubnyk's eyebrows so he 'feels' more 'eyes wide open.' Frankly I'm getting pretty tired of hearing how damn good he is after watching footage of him supposedly tracking the puck up high over his mitt or blocker, as it goes thru the 5-hole down low; or vice versa.

a big bugger like that should always stay standing ...butterfly style don't suit him

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20 minutes ago, wildstars95 said:

a big bugger like that should always stay standing ...butterfly style don't suit him

 

You might be on to something here: the Wild oughta get one of those 500 pound Sumo wrestlers to play goalie.. a dude like that could cover the whole net without having to move a muscle.

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2 minutes ago, Hockey-78 said:

10 mins. gone, 2 SOG... yay Wild...🙄

 

Yep. But Spurgeon's 1 on 1 D was a thing of beauty.. kept inside position, played the man, and gave the guy zero room.. none of the lazy one armed bandit stick reach that we see too often from other D-men (*cough* Suter)

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5 minutes ago, McMahon 6 said:

 

Yep. But Spurgeon's 1 on 1 D was a thing of beauty.. kept inside position, played the man, and gave the guy zero room.. none of the lazy one armed bandit stick reach that we see too often from other D-men (*cough* Suter)

Yes, true.

 

But home ice, "supposedly" fighting for the last playoff spot and you manage 4 SOG in the first 15 mins. Really?

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2 minutes ago, Hockey-78 said:

But home ice, "supposedly" fighting for the last playoff spot and you manage 4 SOG in the first 15 mins. Really?

 

BB already guaranteed a spot for the Wild, so it would behoove us to save all the "fight" for the playoffs. 😜

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1 minute ago, Starofthenorth said:

Both goals on foligno now. What the hell was suter doing? Pretending to be Dubnyk in front of stalock so he can't see the shot from O'Reilly.

 

Bingo. The fans weren't booing after the period ended: they were going "Suuuuutes"

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