MN Wild 2022 Playoffs

J22 wrote:

team2tank wrote:

What is Spurgeon’s no move clause this off season?

It’s a full no move for 2 more years. 10 team no trade starts July of 2024

Probably a better chance of getting Sergei Federov to come play with Kirill than Spurgeon going elsewhere.

J22 wrote:

team2tank wrote:

What is Spurgeon’s no move clause this off season?

It’s a full no move for 2 more years. 10 team no trade starts July of 2024

Bummer

Fleury looks like he’s never even played the sport before

Bigbeer wrote:

Another phantom penalty on the Wild, so the refs plan is to keep the PPs even no matter what

That’s pretty much always the plan. Game management

DOOOB

Weak play down low by Middleton there.

Russian Hockey appreciation night at the X

Well hopefully they find a way to tighten back up, and Kaprisov scores five times.

Starting to look like another Wild playoff team.

Karlsson wrote:

Really blew it in game four when they were depleted defensively.

I made that same observation after that game. Wild just got out hustled and out willed. Jost been good but not scoring. Big whiff.

Tonight their D zone coverage as a team was terrible. Brodin, dumba, spurgeon beat all night in front of their net. Terasenko quiet until tonight…then 3 goals in the third.

What a buzz kill. Kaprisov the only guy who can score. Fiala line mostly ineffective, which is a huge negative for this team

1 in 5 chance of winning series statistically.

Another Minnesota team built for the regular season 🤣

Blew a 2-1 lead in the game and a 2-1 lead in the series

Not a fan of our D. Clear the man and there’s no shot.  We need Big body movers.   Kaprisov is amazing, need some depth on offense. I don’t think the Wild can win when only Kaprisov scores.

let’s go wild!!  They can win in st L and bring it back here for one more!!  Would love to see them win.

Well, the Wild have 4 goals in their 3 losses…and KK has 3 of those. I guess we should be happy there is still a game 6 victory to hope for.

Same woman?!?!?! A Blues and NDSU fan?!?!?!

No.  The NDSU fan doesn’t appear to have a bunch of tats like the Blues fan.

bearpaw28 wrote:

streakygopher wrote:

Chris83 wrote:

Well, the Wild have 4 goals in their 3 losses…and KK has 3 of those. I guess we should be happy there is still a game 6 victory to hope for.

Winner of Game 5 is 80% in favor of taking the series. That feels about right, given that my optimism is running about 1 in 5. I was hoping this team might finally rise up in the playoffs and take that next step…not yet apparently.

Words can’t describe how bad this loss sucked. Not shocked Wild lost, but very surprised “the way” they lost. Just goes to show that regular season success (often) has very little correlation to PLAYOFF success, ESPECIALLY relative to MN professional sports teams!

It’s been a little weird. In the Wild wins they pretty much dominated. These past two games, it’s almost like St. Louis threw a switch, and there’s nothing Minnesota can do.

Teresako, for example, hasn’t done much all series. Then he gets a pure hat trick in the third period last night to salt the game away…on the road! Do you think Fiala, the Wild player who hasn’t done much, will return the favor in St. Louis?

I hope they can get something for Dumba in the off season. Fiala is an astonishing talent, and if he is unloaded, it may be that Guerin has little faith in him as a playoff player. He practically carried the team in the last month of the season and, then, *poof*.

The full clip from above with commentary.

So tDean starts Talbot right?

streakygopher wrote:

Chris83 wrote:

Well, the Wild have 4 goals in their 3 losses…and KK has 3 of those. I guess we should be happy there is still a game 6 victory to hope for.

Winner of Game 5 is 80% in favor of taking the series. That feels about right, given that my optimism is running about 1 in 5. I was hoping this team might finally rise up in the playoffs and take that next step…not yet apparently.

interesting, I heard the same stat on the radio broadcast, only they said the winner of game 3 won 80% of the series….🤷‍♀️

Many thought this series was going 7 games. We have the opportunity to fulfill that tonight. I’m not going pessimistic on this team now, they’ve made comebacks all year long. New game tonight!

We can only hope the players share your optimism/confidence.

team2tank wrote:

Not a big call but I believe at least one of Deslauriers & Duhaime come out. Deslauriers provides zero value at this point laboring around the ice, he can’t even be physical because he is so many steps behind. Duhaime unfortunately has been MIA for quite sometime. I expect Bjugstad to get in & possibly Dewar. Jost has been noticeable in his role this series might as well get more speed/skill with him at this point.

I’d love the 4th to be Dewar/Jost/Bjugstad

#mnwild skating:

Kaprizov-Hartman-Zuccarello
Fiala-Gaudreau-Boldy
Greenway-Eriksson Ek-Foligno
Dewar-Jost-Duhaime
Middleton-Spurgeon
Brodin-Dumba
Merrill-Kulikov
Talbot

— Sarah McLellan (@sarah__mclellan) May 13, 2022

That’s a terrible call against Saad

Bigbeer wrote:

That’s a terrible call against Saad

It was for grabbing Dewar’s stick. Not from the mess with Middleton

I don’t remember a recent playoff series where neither of the goalies starting game 1 are starting game 6.

Quick put Fleury back in

New smile for 14

Chris83 wrote:

Encouraging to see the Wild really grasping and feeding off that “win or go home” desperation.

They just dominated the 1st period. Can’t blame the team for terrible goaltending

J22 wrote:

Chris83 wrote:

Encouraging to see the Wild really grasping and feeding off that “win or go home” desperation.

They just dominated the 1st period. Can’t blame the team for terrible goaltending

Unfortunately, yet another period dominated by the Wild, accompanied by a “0” on the scoreboard.

Chris83 wrote:

J22 wrote:

Chris83 wrote:

Encouraging to see the Wild really grasping and feeding off that “win or go home” desperation.

They just dominated the 1st period. Can’t blame the team for terrible goaltending

Unfortunately, yet another period dominated by the Wild, accompanied by a “0” on the scoreboard.

Yeah, but that has nothing to do with you questioning their desire or effort.

Nice play Brodin

Chill Kessel wrote:

J22 wrote:

Chris83 wrote:

J22 wrote:

Chris83 wrote:

Encouraging to see the Wild really grasping and feeding off that “win or go home” desperation.

They just dominated the 1st period. Can’t blame the team for terrible goaltending

Unfortunately, yet another period dominated by the Wild, accompanied by a “0” on the scoreboard.

Yeah, but that has nothing to do with you questioning their desire or effort.

People love a lazy narrative

Wild look like they have Saturday tee times

Chill Kessel wrote:

J22 wrote:

Chris83 wrote:

J22 wrote:

Chris83 wrote:

Encouraging to see the Wild really grasping and feeding off that “win or go home” desperation.

They just dominated the 1st period. Can’t blame the team for terrible goaltending

Unfortunately, yet another period dominated by the Wild, accompanied by a “0” on the scoreboard.

Yeah, but that has nothing to do with you questioning their desire or effort.

People love a lazy narrative

Nope. Never said “lazy”. Never said they weren’t trying. At some point “desire and effort” has to translate into something more than words. We’re now coming up on 75 minutes since the last Wild goal.

lol pathetic

Playoffs sure haven’t benefitted Fiala.

I wouldn’t have said this during the season but can they get something for him, maybe a big D?

oh god… Wild defense sucks

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Everyone go pee.

Bringing Kulikov back in was clearly a mistake.