Lots of new pieces in the Wild organization and not surprising that there are some rough edges.
I’m not taking much away from last night’s game, the Wild got beat 1-0 by a hot goaltender who robbed the Wild of what would have been 2-3 goals. It happens. So do the defensive lapses that led to the Ducks only goal.
Basically, I think we need to get the Rossi kid healthy and in the centerman mix and there won’t be much chance of him getting sent down, because we’ve got too many gaps to leave a player like that in the minors.
The PP needs to gel and that’s only going to come through experience and practice. Both of which are in short supply due to the COVID season situation.
0 for 16 so far this season on the power play.
I read an interesting stat a few months back.
Question: Where do the Wild rank against the rest of the league in power-play production over the last 10 years?
My guess was in the bottom 10. ALL Wild fans are well aware of what they see as the “terrible” Wild woes on the PP.
The answer was the Wild rank was something like #11 or #12 (I’m going from memory here) in overall power-play goals. There is a large cluster of teams from 10 to about 20 that are all within only a few goals of each other. Granted 10 years is a long sample size, but basically what this stat told me is that every team in the league has power-play woes at one time or another and we’re nothing special or terrible in this regard.
I still wish Bruce was the coach. It would have cool to see him coach Kaprizov
I’m still confused by how Bruce was fired with only 20 games left and then the bizarre situation of naming Dean as interim coach followed by months of silence, then mysteriously tearing off the interim label off Evason during the summer.
I still think that Gurin had other plans and something went wrong. I would like to know who the Plan A guy really was, because clearly, it was NOT Evason.
