Minnesota Wild @ Colorado Avalanche, Tuesday 2-2-21, 7:30pm, Pepsi Center

[MNSOTA]

https://thesportsdaily.com/?p=1183543

 

Minnesota Wild (6-4-0)  12pts  3rd in Honda West

2.90 Goals For Per Game (16th in the NHL)

2.80 Goals Against Per Game (16th in the NHL)

5.1% Power Play (31st in the NHL)

85.4% Penalty Kill (6th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #18 Jordan Greenway ~ 2G 8A = 10pts

2. #14 Joel Ericksson Ek ~ 5G 4A = 9pts

3. #97 Kirill Kaprizov ~ 2G 6A = 8pts

4. #25 Jonas Brodin ~ 2G 4A = 6pts

5. #20 Ryan Suter ~ 0G 6A = 6pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #21 Carson Soucy ~ 14 PIMs

2. #18 Jordan Greenway ~ 14 PIMs

3. #27 Nick Bjugstad ~ 8 PIMs

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #33 Cam Talbot ~ (3-1-0)   2.49GAA   .916SV%

2. #34 Kaapo Kahkonen ~ (3-3-0)   2.86GAA   .903SV%

 

Vs.

 

Colorado Avalanche (6-3-1)  13pts  2nd in Honda West

3.60 Goals For Per Game (4th in the NHL)

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

28.6% Power Play (8th in the NHL)

91.7% Penalty Kill (1st in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #29 Nathan MacKinnon ~ 2G 12A = 14pts

2. #8 Cale Makar ~ 1G 10A = 11pts

3. #96 Mikko Rantanen ~ 7G 3A = 10pts

4. #49 Samuel Girard ~ 1G 8A = 9pts

5. #92 Gabriel Landeskog ~ 3G 5A = 8pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #27 Ryan Graves ~ 18 PIMs

2. #91 Nazem Kadri ~ 8 PIMs

3. #49 Samuel Girard ~ 8 PIMs

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #31 Philipp Grubauer ~ (6-2-0)   1.75GAA   .930SV%   2SO

2. #32 Hunter Miska ~ (0-1-1)   3.55GAA   .881SV%

[lynxrattle]

No backup for goalie for the Avs in this one, but maybe just maybe no MacKinnon either. It's going to be a challenge anyways. The Avs won't be driving at half speed in this one.

[Alexandron]

Thanks MNSOTA. Nice preview. Probably, Grubauer will make the difference in our outcome but hope, without 2 shutouts. And I also hope to see our team at least competitive through entire game capable to neutralize their offence in neutral zone. Some how we should try to stop them  before entering in our zone. Agree, we really would like to watch some nice exciting shows in our lives.

[CreaseAndAssist]

No MacKinnon through these two games in Colorado as they say he's week-to-week with his lower body injury.  While Colorado has plenty of other weapons, they still just lost their best player.  

[Icechipper]

Any word on Zuccarello? Last I heard skating but not practicing with team........ 

[Alexandron]

40 minutes ago, Icechipper said:

Any word on Zuccarello? Last I heard skating but not practicing with team........ 

Sincerely, I have more interest to see the play of our promising youngsters, especially against the best teams in the league.

 

Colorado Avalanche team is one of them, presenting an entire weapon, which we need to stop somehow. Are we capable for doing that next 2 games? We will see. 

 

[Alexandron]

Evason did some changes in the lines. Rau will play with Sturm and Bonino, and Mayhew with Kaprizov and Rask.  The rest of the lines remain the same as last game.

 

Parise-Bjugstad-Johnson;

Kaprizov-Rask-Mayhew;

Greenway-EEK-Hartman;

Sturm-Bonino-Rau.

 

 

[bbgarnett]

Hello all, Back after a weekend of ice fishing.

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

17 minutes ago, bbgarnett said:

Hello all, Back after a weekend of ice fishing.

 

Welcome back.

Wild holding their own against the Avalanche in this "four game series".....but now have to kill off a lethal Colorado PP.

 

[bbgarnett]

I tried watching the game on my phone while in our ice shack on Saturday. But ended up turning it off.

[Alexandron]

25 minutes ago, bbgarnett said:

Hello all, Back after a weekend of ice fishing.

Welcome back. How was your fishing? This coming weekend is going to be very very cold.

[bbgarnett]

1 minute ago, Alexandron said:

Welcome back. How was your fishing? This coming weekend is going to be very very cold.

good weekend not a lot of fish. A ton of dinky perch that we threw back a few decent crappie a some small sunfish and I got a Walleye. so overall we kept like 7 or so fish. We also got a 28 inch pike that someone caught but didn't want so he gave it to us.

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

That Cale Makar is gonna be a PITA for the Wild for YEARS to come....
 

[Alexandron]

2 minutes ago, bbgarnett said:

good weekend not a lot of fish. A ton of dinky perch that we threw back a few decent crappie a some small sunfish and I got a Walleye. so overall we kept like 7 or so fish. We also got a 28 inch pike that someone caught but didn't want so he gave it to us.

Sounds you had a lot of fun. I am planning to start learning how to perform an ice fishing. Never did it before.

 

[bbgarnett]

1 minute ago, Alexandron said:

Sounds you had a lot of fun. I am planning to start learning how to perform an ice fishing. Never did it before.

 

yeah I'm no expert but my brother loves it.

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

Welp...Wild held them off as long as they could, but Colorado breaks through finally.

Sneaky shot past Talbot.

[wildstars95]

spurge gonna b -53 in no time

[Alexandron]

Superb saves before for Talbot. But that goal was kind of softy goal for him.

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

I am guessing Zach Parise is finally fully healthy....no nagging injuries of any kind?
He seems to have a bit of extra jump in his skating so far this season.

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

Just now, Alexandron said:

Superb saves before for Talbot. But that goal was kind of softy goal for him.

 He anticipated incorrectly and left the post he was supposed to keep sealed too soon it looked like.

[wildstars95]

1 minute ago, TropicalFruitGirl26 said:

I am guessing Zach Parise is finally fully healthy....no nagging injuries of any kind?
He seems to have a bit of extra jump in his skating so far this season.

we need points from that albatross

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

1 minute ago, wildstars95 said:

we need points from that albatross

Oh definitely.

I was just noting that he seems to be skating more effortlessly these days instead of the usual laboring I've seen from him trying to play through something that ails him.

[wildstars95]

2 minutes ago, TropicalFruitGirl26 said:

Oh definitely.

I was just noting that he seems to be skating more effortlessly these days instead of the usual laboring I've seen from him trying to play through something that ails him.

he would look good on the islanders

[Alexandron]

Agree with your posts. I think also it was not a bad period for us. We were able to hold the pressure almost entire period, and only their 4th line was able to place a "sneaky" goal.

[Alexandron]

7 minutes ago, TropicalFruitGirl26 said:

I am guessing Zach Parise is finally fully healthy....no nagging injuries of any kind?
He seems to have a bit of extra jump in his skating so far this season.

It seems he does, probably, because he wants to reach more faster skaters in his play. At least he is trying to help his way.