CreaseAndAssist Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 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 Vs. 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... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexandron Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexandron Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 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. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hockey-78 Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CreaseAndAssist Posted December 10, 2019 Author Share Posted December 10, 2019 (shrugs) Right thing to do? Just to give Stalock some rest. But sure...play some of the kids. You'd almost think they'd want to wait for Koivu to be healthy to give him a tribute, but they must be desperate to sell some tickets for this game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexandron Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 Again news from Russo. Brennan Menell will play tonight too and he is going to be our 28th Minnesota-born player to play for the Wild team. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IllaZilla Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 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... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bear Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IllaZilla Posted December 11, 2019 Share Posted December 11, 2019 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... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bear Posted December 11, 2019 Share Posted December 11, 2019 Heads getting too big after some success Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildstars95 Posted December 11, 2019 Share Posted December 11, 2019 (yawn) should be a barn burner tonight ZZZzzzzzz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MNSOTA Posted December 11, 2019 Share Posted December 11, 2019 Brian Rolston just jinxed us......told Mikko "we'll see you at 1,500." 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MNSOTA Posted December 11, 2019 Share Posted December 11, 2019 Honestly, they should have brought in (or at least done a video interview) of Risebrough and Lemaire. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MNSOTA Posted December 11, 2019 Share Posted December 11, 2019 About 7 minutes in and no shots on goal. This is going to be a long night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MNSOTA Posted December 11, 2019 Share Posted December 11, 2019 And down goes Staal... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbgarnett Posted December 11, 2019 Share Posted December 11, 2019 Looks like I'm not missing much Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IllaZilla Posted December 11, 2019 Share Posted December 11, 2019 Just now, bbgarnett said: Looks like I'm not missing much According to Russo the Wild can’t get out of their own end... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IllaZilla Posted December 11, 2019 Share Posted December 11, 2019 (edited) 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... Edited December 11, 2019 by IllaZilla 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexandron Posted December 11, 2019 Share Posted December 11, 2019 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MNSOTA Posted December 11, 2019 Share Posted December 11, 2019 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... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildstars95 Posted December 11, 2019 Share Posted December 11, 2019 they have more than 1 shot right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbgarnett Posted December 11, 2019 Share Posted December 11, 2019 14 minutes ago, MNSOTA said: Well we could have dressed Gaborik and Schultz... At this point Skoula would even be acceptable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildstars95 Posted December 11, 2019 Share Posted December 11, 2019 i thought the shot clock was stuck...oh boy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildstars95 Posted December 11, 2019 Share Posted December 11, 2019 knob shot and goal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MNSOTA Posted December 11, 2019 Share Posted December 11, 2019 39 minutes ago, bbgarnett said: At this point Skoula would even be acceptable. I always called him Skouba, because he was like Kuba 2.0. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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