Minnesota Wild vs Montreal Canadians, Sunday 10-20-19, 4:00pm, Xcel Energy Center

[MNSOTA]

Minnesota Wild (1-6-0)  2pts  7th in the Central

2.00 Goals For Per Game (31st in the NHL)

4.14 Goals Against Per Game (30th in the NHL)

12% Power Play (25th in the NHL)

77.8% Penalty Kill (20th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #77 Brad Hunt ~ 2G 2A = 4pts

2. #46 Jared Spurgeon ~ 1G 3A = 4pts

3. #20 Ryan Suter ~ 1G 3A = 4pts

4. #17 Marcus Foligno ~ 0G 3A = 3pts

5. #16 Jason Zucker ~ 2G 0A = 2pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #19 Luke Kunin ~ 17 PIM's

2. #38 Ryan Hartman ~ 8 PIM's

3. #55 Nick Seeler ~ 6 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #40 Devan Dubnyk (0-5-0)  4.44GAA  .867%SP

2. #32 Alex Stalock (1-1-0)  2.07GAA  .929%SP  1SO

 

Vs.

 

Montreal Canadiens (3-2-2)  8pts  5th in the Atlantic

3.75 Goals For Per Game (4th in the NHL)

3.13 Goals Against Per Game (17th in the NHL)

25.8% Power Play (8th in the NHL)

73.1% Penalty Kill (25th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #11 Brendan Gallagher ~ 4G 4A = 8pts

2. #13 Max Domi ~ 3G 5A = 8pts

3. #92 Jonathan Drouin ~ 3G 5A = 8pts

4. #90 Tomas Tatar ~ 2G 4A = 6pts

5. #40 Joel Armia ~ 4G 1A = 5pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #90 Tomas Tatar ~ 12 PIM's

2. #8 Ben Chiarot ~ 6 PIM's

3. #62 Artturi Lehkonen ~ 6 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #31 Carey Price (4-2-1)  2.68GAA  .912%SP  1SO

2. #37 Keith Kinkaid (0-0-1)  4.93GAA  .872%SP

[MNSOTA]

Here's the actual preview:

 

https://wp.me/p9DWHB-42sT

[lynxrattle]

Thanks for the preview. It's hard work: writing and following the games so closely. I can switch my mind off, when I just can't take it anymore, but you need to concentrate. My sympathies!

[Hockey-78]

Someone might want to edit the title...

 

Hopefully the Wild will benefit from the Canadiens playing yesterday. Otherwise, what are the factors pointing to a Wild win?

[wildstars95]

this should be a win today....should be

[MNSOTA]

2 hours ago, Hockey-78 said:

Someone might want to edit the title...

 

Hopefully the Wild will benefit from the Canadiens playing yesterday. Otherwise, what are the factors pointing to a Wild win?

 

Yikes......my apologies. It was a long week at work. My apologies in advance to Antti.

[MNSOTA]

ZUCKER!!!!!!

[IllaZilla]

Ugh...five hour drive from Grand Forks (that river is NUTS!), finish the deck, cut the grass, and take the garden to the compost heap all so I could watch these goofs today. Have I missed anything?

[wildstars95]

the goof balls came to play so far

[MNSOTA]

And now things are falling apart...

[wildstars95]

[IllaZilla]

Let’s see how they handle the second period. It’s been their Achilles Heel since Year One...

[IllaZilla]

...and right on queue

[IllaZilla]

Well that power play was just spectacular...

[IllaZilla]

At least someone wants to score on this team...way to go Foligno. 

Edited October 20, 2019 by IllaZilla

[Icechipper]

Had the barmaid put the game on one of auxiliary TVs. Bears Saints on audio so close captioning for Wild-Canadiens. Twice the commentator excuses the Wild because, well, "this is the National Hockey League." Thank you captain obvious. Goalie makes glove save on Zucker and it's "grand larceny." Instead of getting pizzed off, Zucker smiles and pats Kinkaids pads. WTF? Think this is beer league? This is the fricken NHL baby!

Edited October 20, 2019 by Icechipper

[IllaZilla]

5 minutes ago, Icechipper said:

Had the barmaid put the game on one of auxiliary TVs. Bears Saints on audio so close captioning for Wild-Canadiens. Twice the commentator excuses the Wild because, well, "this is the National Hockey League." Thank you captain obvious. Goalie makes glove save on Zucker and it's "grand larceny." Instead of getting pizzed off, Zucker smiles and pats Hutchinson's pads. WTF? Think this is beer league? This is the fricken NHL baby!

At least Zucker has scored. Parise’s been invisible and Staal couldn’t score in a monkey whorehouse with a bag of bananas...

[IllaZilla]

Donezo...

[IllaZilla]

Imagine that...the Gamebreaker turns the puck over and it leads to a goal...

[IllaZilla]

Holy crap Parise finally shows up...they might actually pull this one off. 

[wildstars95]

well well well ,mr poopy pants team pulled one out...

[wildstars95]

but will the team pow wow speech hold for tuesday

[IllaZilla]

Well they hung in there for this win. Good for them. 

[CreaseAndAssist]

Wild Resilient in 4-3 Home Win Over Montreal

 

Better effort, but against a team playing on the 2nd night of a back to back.  I guess its a start.  Brad Hunt is still the team's leading scorer.  Finally a goal off the rush.  I have a full game recap and a ton of prospect updates.  Enjoy and discuss!  

[lynxrattle]

The game had a playoffs kind of feeling for me. The season on the line, and still is. The team really wanted the win today. Hartman, Fiala blocking shots, Zucker clearly felt he needed to have a good game here. Better!