Minnesota Wild vs Arizona Coyotes, Friday 3-12-21, 7:00pm, Xcel Energy Center

[CreaseAndAssist]

https://thesportsdaily.com/?p=1191958

 

Minnesota Wild (15-8-1)  31pts  3rd in Honda West

3.13 Goals For Per Game (13th in the NHL)

2.63 Goals Against Per Game (10th in the NHL)

7.9% Power Play (31st in the NHL)

84.3% Penalty Kill (6th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #97 Kirill Kaprizov ~ 7G 13A = 20pts

2. #18 Jordan Greenway ~ 5G 14A = 19pts

3. #17 Marcus Foligno ~ 7G 9A = 16pts

4. #14 Joel Eriksson Ek ~ 10G 5A = 15pts

5. #36 Mats Zuccarello ~ 4G 10A = 14pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #22 Kevin Fiala ~ 31 PIM's

2. #17 Marcus Foligno ~ 29 PIM's

3. #18 Jordan Greenway ~ 28 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #34 Kaapo Kahkonen (11-4-0)  2.19GAA  .922%SP  1SO

2. #33 Cam Talbot (4-3-1)  2.73GAA  .910%SP

 

Vs.

 

Arizona Coyotes (12-10-3)  27pts  6th in Honda West

2.64 Goals For Per Game (26th in the NHL)

2.92 Goals Against Per Game (14th in the NHL)

21.2% Power Play (16th in the NHL)

82.4% Penalty Kill (7th in the NHL)

 

Top 5 Scorers:

1. #83 Conor Garland ~ 8G 14A = 22pts

2. #9 Clayton Keller ~ 8G 13A = 21pts

3. #6 Jakub Chychrun ~ 7G 12A = 19pts

4. #18 Christian Dvorak ~ 9G 8A = 17pts

5. #81 Phil Kessel ~ 8G 9A = 17pts

 

Top 3 PIM's:

1. #6 Jakub Chychrun ~ 20 PIM's

2. #55 Jason Demers ~ 16 PIM's

3. #22 Johan Larsson ~ 15 PIM's

 

Top Goaltenders:

1. #35 Darcy Kuemper (7-7-2)  2.41GAA  .914%SP  1SO

2. #32 Antti Rantta (4-2-2)  3.39GAA  .912%SP

[lynxrattle]

Well. Talbot in. I sure hope this time the Wild does it best in defending. We need to find out if we can alternate between goalies, or do we have to go with the traditional goalie and a backup system.

[Hockey-78]

1 hour ago, lynxrattle said:

Well. Talbot in. I sure hope this time the Wild does it best in defending. We need to find out if we can alternate between goalies, or do we have to go with the traditional goalie and a backup system.

Not a season without goalie controversy I tell you! Maybe Dubnyk's two first seasons were an exception but other than those it's been fairly confusing in the Wild goalie department for the past decade.

Edited March 12, 2021 by Hockey-78

[EmptyShelf]

Kak needs to get 2 out of every 3 starts if the Wild want a chance at playoffs and advancing in the playoffs.  Rebound control is a MUST, and he is just better at.

[MNSOTA]

Not amused by goaltending decision. 

[bbgarnett]

They need to shut up with this 1A 1B BS

[MNSOTA]

Having to watch the Arizona feed as the Minnesota one keeps buffering 

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

Soucy gets called on a weak holding call.
All he was doing was preventing Garland from falling.

Next time, Carson, just let him drop.
Not worth the 2 minutes.  

[MNSOTA]

Well this will most likely go poorly. 

[ClusterChuck]

LaPanta "Roughly a sixth"...Roughly?? 
New math, I guess. 

[MNSOTA]

Let’s just underachieve with shots on goal tonight. 

[MNSOTA]

What’s with these passes in the defensive zone?

[Alexandron]

Soucy and EEK had nice chances to score.

[ClusterChuck]

C'mon Ek, Shoot that one. Trying to force clogged lane passes.

[Alexandron]

Foligno is injured.

[MNSOTA]

Foligno not moving and no whistle. Thankfully he got off the ice, albeit very slowly. 

[Alexandron]

2 minutes ago, MNSOTA said:

Foligno not moving and no whistle. Thankfully he got off the ice, albeit very slowly. 

And Cole is injured too.

[Alexandron]

Superb save by Talbot.

[MNSOTA]

And back to the PK. 

[ClusterChuck]

Big saves by Talbot. 

[Alexandron]

Another good save by Talbot plus a penalty to Fiala.

[Alexandron]

Did we equalize out shots with Arizona? We created some nice pressure by the end of the period. 

[ClusterChuck]

Better chances late. Brodin, Such a quick shot.
I wonder if Dumba isn't fully recovered or maybe protecting his upper body by not doing full blasts.
His slappers are no stronger than Suters.

[ClusterChuck]

Gah...Foligno not back out.

[bbgarnett]

3 minutes ago, ClusterChuck said:

Gah...Foligno not back out.

Hopefully just a bruise