Minnesota Wild vs Colorado Avalanche, 1-30-21, 7:00pm, Xcel Energy Center

[MNSOTA]

https://thesportsdaily.com/?p=1182010

 

Minnesota Wild (5-3-0)  10pts  3rd in Honda West

3.00 Goals For Per Game (14th in the NHL)

2.50 Goals Against Per Game (9th in the NHL)

5.9% Power Play (30th in the NHL)

86.7% Penalty Kill (7th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #22 Joel Eriksson Ek ~ 5G 2A = 7pts

2. #97 Kirill Kaprizov ~ 2G 5A = 7pts

3. #18 Jordan Greenway ~ 1G 6A = 7pts

4. #20 Ryan Suter ~ 0G 5A = 5pts

5. #11 Zach Parise ~ 2G 2A = 4pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #18 Jordan Greenway ~ 12 PIMs

2. #17 Marcus Foligno ~ 9 PIMs

3. #27 Nick Bjugstad ~ 8 PIMs

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #33 Cam Talbot ~ (2-1-0)   2.24GAA   .925SV%

2. #34 Kaapo Kahkonen ~ (3-2-0)   2.40GAA   .917SV%

3. #31? Andrew Hammond

 

Vs.

 

Colorado Avalanche (5-3-0)  10pts  2nd in Honda West

3.50 Goals For Per Game (7th in the NHL)

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

31.6% Power Play (7th in the NHL)

90.3% Penalty Kill (3rd in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #29 Nathan MacKinnon ~ 2G 8A = 10pts

2. #8 Cale Makar ~ 0G 9A = 9pts

3. #96 Mikko Rantanen ~ 6G 2A = 8pts

4. #91 Nazem Kadri ~ 3G 3A = 6pts

5. #49 Samuel Girard ~ 1G 5A = 6pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #27 Ryan Graves ~ 18 PIMs

2. #91 Nazem Kadri ~ 8 PIMs

3. #17 Tyson Jost ~ 6 PIMs

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #31 Philipp Grubauer ~ (5-2-0)   1.86GAA   .928SV%   2SO

2. #32 Hunter Miska ~ (0-1-0)   3.10GAA   .885SV%

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

So NOW it begins for the Wild....

Enough of what likely will be bottom feeding California teams, they now face the 'better' half of their division in Colorado (lots of Colorado in fact), Arizona, and St. Louis.

 

We will now see what we really have with this group of players.

Good luck to Minnesota starting today....perhaps they can take advantage of one area the Avs may be a bit weak in: goaltending.

[lynxrattle]

Yup. We'll know what we have after these games against the Avs. We won't have much hope if the will to win we saw last game is not there. Please stay out of the box, though. They have a filthy power play, and their PK is better than ours. To make matters more difficult there's a contradiction in playing with will, and not taking any penalties. When you're fired up, there's always going to be plays that bend or break the rule book.

 

If they have some fire in them tonight, we'll see a very good match. Give us fire, but no grievous bodily harm today, please:

 

 

[wildstars95]

 

hope the wild  come out swinging tonight 

[ClusterChuck]

4 straight vs Av's ...Gah.
Without Fiala will be even tougher but in the past the Wild steps up their game a bit against the better teams. Hope so.
Aim for a split and maybe a point out of a loss is my guess.
 

[ClusterChuck]

Dumba goes for the headshot...again.  
Too soon?

[wildstars95]

that joost goof likes to run goalies 

[Alexandron]

Suter's penalty cost us a goal.

[Alexandron]

We should stay away from the penalty box, because Colorado team is too good  in PP. In general, during the 1st period we did not generate a lot of scoring chances and sometimes I was thinking that Avalanche is playing in PP mode. All lines should be better during the next 2 periods. I think, we are capable to show some good hockey. 

[wildstars95]

this colorado team is a handfull ...for sure

[Alexandron]

30 minutes ago, ClusterChuck said:

Dumba goes for the headshot...again.  
Too soon?

As many headshots into the opposite goalie we will have as more goals will be in the net. The goalie will be too confused. 

[ClusterChuck]

20 minutes ago, Alexandron said:

We should stay away from the penalty box, because Colorado team is too good  in PP. 

Some day we'll have dangerous PP. For now I'd take 'slight threat'. 

[Alexandron]

That was a beautiful chance for EEK from Kaprizov.

[Alexandron]

Really would like to see instead of Hartman-Rask-Hunt line the line from AHL Mayhew-Rau-Sokolov.

[Alexandron]

Kaprizov should shoot more instead of passing to Parise.

[wildstars95]

2 minutes ago, Alexandron said:

Kaprizov should shoot more instead of passing to Parise.

parise say's no pass to me it's the country club way

[Alexandron]

It seems Sturm is injured.

[ClusterChuck]

Wow...Just wow
They talk about simplifying the PP and yet for 2 minutes they force pretty white-board plays without a shot.
 

[wildstars95]

well we know who the powerhouse team is outmatched I'd say 

[MNSOTA]

Anyone notice that the Avalanche have blue balls on their heads?

[wildstars95]

1000 horse power smooth running machine against a rolls canhardly slant 6

[Alexandron]

Hartman just played not bad. This way we should play for penalty kill. I like it.

[ClusterChuck]

5 minutes ago, MNSOTA said:

Anyone notice that the Avalanche have blue balls on their heads?

At least somebody has some. 

[Alexandron]

Saucy should not do this.

[Alexandron]

Nice chance for Foligno and EEK.