Minnesota Wild vs Los Angeles Kings, Tuesday 1-26-21, 7:00pm, Xcel Energy Center

[Alexandron]

32 minutes ago, TropicalFruitGirl26 said:

Outside of a few bursts here and there, this game so far, is a slog.....which works to the Kings advantage.
LA also seems to be keeping much of the play along the walls, again, to their advantage, only bringing it to the middle if they got a guy streaking through.

Hopefully, Minnesota can up the tempo a bit and turn this into a bit more of a run n gun and put pressure on the Kings' comfort zone.


 

I hope too to see that Wild can up the tempo next 2 periods. I like to see more life coming out of our team. 6 shots not enough during the 1st period, but still better than last game when we had only 3.

Edited January 27, 2021 by Alexandron

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

Damn...Kaapo a bit slow to cover the post.

He might have been surprised MacDermid was down that low!
But a nice high shot by the normally defensive defenseman.

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

I'm not so sure EEK's game will ever be consistently on the offensive side, but I am starting to like the PITA manner in which he plays.

Looks to try and agitate a bit out there, he almost always finishes checks, and seems be pretty good at getting people to wanna take swipes at him.
As long as he doesn't become a liability, Minnesota could use that sort of sandpaper in their lineup.

 

[Alexandron]

That was a nice pressure and had a few chances. I like it. We need to continue this way.

[wildstars95]

geez why bother ...just forfeit the p.p

[ClusterChuck]

18 minutes ago, TropicalFruitGirl26 said:

I'm not so sure EEK's game will ever be consistently on the offensive side, but I am starting to like the PITA manner in which he plays.

Looks to try and agitate a bit out there, he almost always finishes checks, and seems be pretty good at getting people to wanna take swipes at him.
As long as he doesn't become a liability, Minnesota could use that sort of sandpaper in their lineup.

 

I thought he established that at some point last season. Good to see again. 

LA's just letting us set up our plays and yet we still can't connect. 
It was our best 2nd 1/2 of a second period this year tho.

[bbgarnett]

Foligno Finally!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

Ugly, greasy, fast food style goal....absolutely disgusting!

JUST what the Wild needed.  

[bbgarnett]

Or EEK!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Alexandron]

I think EEK put it first.

[Alexandron]

Good goal!!!

[Alexandron]

Bad goal into our net. 1:2 score.

[EmptyShelf]

Kaprisov is going to double everyone in assissts.  I hate him playing with Johhanson and Bonino - a waste of 97s skill.  Also, I have yet to see Parise or Fiala return good passes to him for all the passes he dishes to them.  Glad we have some shots, but I don't think we want Kaprisov to only shoot when he is creating his own shots

[wildstars95]

and there you go ...the wild we all know and care about .....ha

[ClusterChuck]

Great last 2 minutes but no luck at all tonight.

[EmptyShelf]

27 - 9 shots in last two periods.  Someone needs to bury it.  Too many shots without results.  

[Alexandron]

We had good efforts by the end, but without positive results. No luck tonight which we really had in LA at the beginning of the season.

Edited January 27, 2021 by Alexandron

[ClusterChuck]

And just like that...The team we beat twice to start the season is tied with us in points.
Hope for the trendy split thurs. G'night all.

 

[Alexandron]

5 minutes ago, EmptyShelf said:

Kaprisov is going to double everyone in assissts.  I hate him playing with Johhanson and Bonino - a waste of 97s skill.  Also, I have yet to see Parise or Fiala return good passes to him for all the passes he dishes to them.  Glad we have some shots, but I don't think we want Kaprisov to only shoot when he is creating his own shots

Completely agree regarding passes as well as he looked better in Parise-Bjugstad-Kaprizov line. PP line when he plays with Parise and Fiala is still looking good and creating lots of chances. Some how we need a better finish. I am surprised of EEK production. He is having 4 goals already and that line (Greenway-EEK-Foligno)is the most consistent so far.

[lynxrattle]

Well now I'm worried. The team didn't seem to have much energy, which can't be true so early in the season. I think they pass too slowly and thus give too much time to the opponent to group. Maybe it's the need of a 1C. Right now do we even have a decent 2C. Eek the only positive exception on the centre department, plus Bonino's faceoffs.

 

The game had one only positive moment for me: Kempe obviously was pretty annoyed by Eek. I would love to know what the two Swedes were talking about. Eek really gets under the skin of the opponent.

[lynxrattle]

After reading Evason's comments I'm even more worried:

 

"We just again ran into a hot goaltender and maybe didn't catch a break or two. But we just gotta keep grinding."

 

Either he doesn't realise what happened, or lies for some reason.

[Icechipper]

Gave up on boring Wild-Kings pleasure skate and watched Leafs at Flames. Canadian announcers do not coddle bad play. "Couldn't bury our chances," "ran into a hot goaltender" and "rang one of the pipe" won't fly. Pinging the outside iron means you missed the net.

[ClusterChuck]

1 hour ago, Icechipper said:

 Pinging the outside iron means you missed the net.

Considering last year it was "High and off the glass" We're getting closer. 

[lynxrattle]

45 minutes ago, ClusterChuck said:

Considering last year it was "High and off the glass" We're getting closer. 

Lol, that means we're getting better.

 

 (The original version by the Beatles sounded so SLOOOW, I could not tolerate it - please Mr. Evason and co, give a thought to how to make us even a little bit faster)

[Icechipper]

Wasn't it a few years ago the TWolves brought in a "shooting coach," to teach grown men, professionals no less, how to shoot a ?