Minnesota Wild vs San Jose Sharks, Friday 1-22-21, 7:00pm, Xcel Energy Center

[MNSOTA]

https://thesportsdaily.com/?p=1180541

 

Minnesota Wild (3-1-0)  6pts  2nd in Honda West

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

2.25 Goals Against Per Game (6th in the NHL)

5.0% Power Play (28th in the NHL)

92.3% Penalty Kill (2nd in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #97 Kirill Kaprizov ~ 1G 4A = 5pts

2. #14 Joel Erickson Ek ~ 2G 1A = 3pts

3. #24 Matt Dumba ~ 2G 1 A = 3pts

4. #18 Jordan Greenway ~ 0G 3A = 3pts

5. #20 Ryan Suter ~ 0G 3A = 3pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #22 Kevin Fiala ~ 6PIMs

2. #27 Nick Bjugstad ~ 4PIMs

3. #90 Marcus Johansson ~ 4PIMs

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #33 Cam Talbot ~ (2-1-0)   2.27GAA   .926SV%

2. #34 Kaapo Kahkonen ~ (1-0-0)   2.00GAA   .917SV%

 

Vs.

 

San Jose Sharks (2-2-0)  4pts  6th in Honda West

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

3.50 Goals Against Per Game (26th in the NHL)

27.8% Power Play (8th in the NHL)

86.7% Penalty Kill (11th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #48 Tomas Hertl ~ 3G 3A = 6pts

2. #39 Logan Couture ~ 2G 2A = 4pts

3. #9 Evander Kane ~ 1G 3A = 4pts

4. #88 Brent Burns ~ 1G 2A = 3pts

5. #28 Timo Meier ~ 1G 2A = 3pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #9 Evander Kane ~ 14PIMs

2. #88 Brent Burns ~ 6PIMs

3. #62 Kevin Lebanc ~ 4PIMs

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #31 Martin Jones ~ (2-1-0)   3.08GAA   .893SV%

2. #40 Devan Dubnyk ~ (0-1-0)   4.23GAA   .857SV%

[Alexandron]

Another important next 2 home games against Sharks. Hope, tonight it will be a must win home opener game for us. Probably, Dubnyk and Donato will play like lions against of us. In my opinion, in comparison to 2 our previous opponents the Sharks team is capable to score more goals and we should be ready for it as offensively as well as defensively. Our goalies should stay on the top of their play too. 

Agree with MNSOTA, that before of playing against of Colorado team 4 games in a row (like in a playoffs mode staring on Jan,30) we need to collect as many points as possible in our 4 games(2 games against Sharks and 2 games against Kings).

[wildstars95]

2 p.p goals would be nice tonight

[ClusterChuck]

33 minutes ago, wildstars95 said:

2 p.p goals would be nice tonight

Get some traffic in front of Dubs and your wish should come true.
Being all divisional games, It kinda sucks to go to OT but on the other hand I'd like to see more Kaprizov and Fiala with open ice.

Edited January 22, 2021 by ClusterChuck

[lynxrattle]

A fun game to wait for. Dubnyk returning, home opener, Donato returning, Kaprizov show, Fiala watch, second in West, Cole professionalism, etc. Loads of stuff to watch. I'm looking forward to this. It shoud be excellent hockey entertainment Let's have a good game and a win here!

[Alexandron]

1 hour ago, wildstars95 said:

2 p.p goals would be nice tonight

Into the Dubnyk's net. 

[Alexandron]

45 minutes ago, ClusterChuck said:

Get some traffic in front of Dubs and your wish should come true.
Being all divisional games, It kinda sucks to go to OT but on the other hand I'd like to see more Kaprizov and Fiala with open ice.

I agree with you and prefer our wins in regulation but not in OT, because we have all divisional games. Kind of my dream to see Kaprizov and Fiala with a center tryouts EEK as well as Sturm. Both play hard, have speed and smartness. Why not to try them in that position?

 

It seems parents of our Minnesotan player Bjugstad are going to watch tonight this game at arena. It is going to be his first game at home.  

[bbgarnett]

EEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[wildstars95]

there's one of two doob's softies

[wildstars95]

in a game like this  the p.p is goals the wild need

[ClusterChuck]

Nice screen by Suter there. 

 

[ClusterChuck]

Where's my 'Decline' sign...

[Alexandron]

1:1 after 1. 

[bbgarnett]

Ugh hopefully Talbot is injured long

[wildstars95]

jugstad kinda slow to shoot

 

[Alexandron]

Sadly, Sharks are playing better so far. Not much I could see from our team.

[Alexandron]

That was a nice scoring chance.

[bbgarnett]

Parise!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Alexandron]

PARISE !!!!!!

[bbgarnett]

nice juicy rebound by Doobs

[ClusterChuck]

2 minutes ago, bbgarnett said:

nice juicy rebound by Doobs

Exactly why the need to pass less and throw on net...Hence the Parise goal.

[Alexandron]

Now is Fiala's turn to start scoring.

[Alexandron]

It was a nice fantastic play between Kaprizov and Parise. I like it.

[ClusterChuck]

D is really stepping up for Kahkonen coming into the game.
Nice efforts by Cole on multiple shifts.

[Alexandron]

9 minutes ago, ClusterChuck said:

D is really stepping up for Kahkonen coming into the game.
Nice efforts by Cole on multiple shifts.

Agee. Defense helping him a lot.