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Wild vs. Ducks 12/10/19 @ 7:00PM CST at the X


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Wild vs. Ducks Game Preview

 

Minnesota Wild (14-12-4)  32pts  5th in the Central

2.97 Goals For Per Game (17th in the NHL)

3.27 Goals Against Per Game (24th in the NHL)

 

19.2% Power Play (13th in the NHL)

78.6% Penalty Kill (20th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #16 Jason Zucker ~ 11G 10A = 21pts

2. #12 Eric Staal ~ 8G 13A = 21pts

3. #11 Zach Parise ~ 12G 5A = 17pts

4. #36 Mats Zuccarello ~ 7G 10A = 17pts

5. #20 Ryan Suter ~ 3G 14A = 17pts

 

Top 3 PIM’s:

1. #38 Ryan Hartman ~ 37 PIM’s

2. #24 Matt Dumba ~ 25 PIM’s

3. #19 Luke Kunin ~ 21 PIM’s

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #32 Alex Stalock (8-4-2)  2.91GAA  .906%SP  1SO

2. #31 Kaapo Kahkonen (2-0-0)  2.00GAA  .950%SP

 

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Anaheim Ducks (12-14-4)  28pts  7th in the Pacific

2.63 Goals For Per Game (24th in the NHL)

2.97 Goals Against Per Game (15th in the NHL)

 

10.5% Power Play (30th in the NHL)

76.8% Penalty Kill (24th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #15 Ryan Getzlaf ~ 10G 14A = 24pts

2. #33 Jakob Silfverberg ~ 11G 9A = 20pts

3. #67 Rickard Rakell ~ 8G 12A = 20pts

4. #14 Adam Henrique ~ 9G 6A = 15pts

5. #4 Cam Fowler ~ 5G 10A = 15pts

 

Top 3 PIM’s:

1. #46 Erik Gudbranson ~ 66 PIM’s

2. #37 Nick Ritchie ~ 54 PIM’s

3. #20 Nicolas Deslauriers ~ 41 PIM’s

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #36 John Gibson (8-12-2)  2.87GAA  .909%SP  1SO

2. #30 Ryan Miller (4-2-2)  3.00GAA  .908%SP

 

MNSOTA wrote up the game preview and I'll be on the post-gamer.  The team has had a little time to rest from its road trip and now has small 3-game homestand.  Will the momentum return or has it cooled off completely after their loss in Carolina?  We'll find out tonight...enjoy and discuss...

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I think BB liked more Donato as a center for the 2nd line( Parise-Donato-Fiala). Hope , that line will start producing permanently. Rask was moved back to the 4th line last game and probably will be there tonight too. 

Sturm was reassigned yesterday back to Iowa, which means we will not see him this week.

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More news.According to Michael Russo, Koivu will skate  only for his 1000 NHL game ceremony at 19:08 p.m., but will not play for a couple of weeks because of his injury. Sturm was sent to play tonight a game in Iowa, but will come back later this home-stand . Woodbury native Brenan Menell will play probably next game. And looks like Kahkonen is going to start his first game on the home ice tonight.

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30 minutes ago, Alexandron said:

More news.According to Michael Russo, Koivu will skate  only for his 1000 NHL game ceremony at 19:08 p.m., but will not play for a couple of weeks because of his injury. Sturm was sent to play tonight a game in Iowa, but will come back later this home-stand . Woodbury native Brenan Menell will play probably next game. And looks like Kahkonen is going to start his first game on the home ice tonight.

The only right thing to do.

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1 hour ago, IllaZilla said:

Be interesting to see if they go back to the short passes and grinding it out or if they continue to try and force the stretch passes and play run-n-gun...

I didn't see the game in Carolina is that why they took a beating?

 

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13 minutes ago, Bear said:

I didn't see the game in Carolina is that why they took a beating?

 


Yes. They kept trying to skate with the younger, faster Canes and got their lunch handed to them. 
Sad thing is, during the intermission interviews they were saying they needed to stop trying to skate with the Canes and play their (The Wild’s) game...

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It's a shame - we did just 1 shot during entire first period vs 14 shots of Ducks.  I do not remember that for a long period of time. They are not capable to play their game. Hope, our players did not taste any champagne before the game in celebration of Koivu's achievement of 1000 NHL games.   Ducks complete domination so far. 

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15 minutes ago, IllaZilla said:

But isn’t this exactly what happened last season more or less? Lose Koivu and a defenseman and the team immediately circles the drain...zero depth...

 

Well we could have dressed Gaborik and Schultz...

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