2021 MN Wild/NHL Thread

What a bonehead play by the Penguins goalie in 2OT! Islanders 1 win away from upset and a better Wild 1st rounder!

CaptainMusky wrote:

McDavid just scored…

Yep he finally found the twine.

Maybe the Oil Slick can win one.

TheFamousGrouse wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>CaptainMusky wrote:</div>
McDavid just scored…

Yep he finally found the twine.

Maybe the Oil Slick can win one.

So he’s up to half as good as Eriksson Ek now. Or are we counting disallowed goals too? Then he’d be at a quarter.

Remember when you said Jeff Skinner was better than McDavid?

WTF Spurgeon? Terrible positioning and effort on the Stone goal!

Kaprizov comes right back with a snipe to tie though!

I gotta think the goal felt really good for Parise, happy for him

JoeMX1825 wrote:

WTF Spurgeon? Terrible positioning and effort on the Stone goal!

Kaprizov comes right back with a snipe to tie though!

Lost a stick battle to Mark Stone, the guy with the best stick in the league. But yeah it looks really bad every time he embarrasses someone like that.

First time all series they’ve answered a Vegas goal. Love to see it.

Ok Wild up 3-1, my god can we please avoid the 2nd period lul this game!

JoeMX1825 wrote:

Ok Wild up 3-1, my god can we please avoid the 2nd period lul this game!

Beat me to it Joe. Praise is better than bjugstad, for his size he just doesn’t do much with it

JoeMX1825 wrote:

Ok Wild up 3-1, my god can we please avoid the 2nd period lul this game!

Don’t jinx it Joe.

Spencer Knight just unreal tonight in his playoff debut.

Nice to see Addison get on the score sheet in his debut. I feel like Greenway’s scored a few of those own rebound goals this year, maybe even one against MAF.

JoeMX1825 wrote:

I gotta think the goal felt really good for Parise, happy for him

A bit of Karma Eh?

If Greenway can learn to play every game like he did that period he would easily be a 30-35 goal scorer…he simply can’t be legally stopped when motivated…

Watching this game I can’t help but think of the off season moves this team either has to make ( trying to get better up the middle two 1st round picks) or is going to be forced to make (like Parise and ex pack draft) This off season is very big for Bill G. That could make or break his first GM job.

Oh man this three icings by sturm Parise line is awe full they are dieing. Been out at least 4 plus minutes

Not skating at all in the 2nd. This is so bad.

This is an awful 2nd period.

I’ve heard Vegas games are fun but for how much they change music it would seem to be an annoying game to attend. Maybe I’m just annoyed with the play of the wild.

Ripjiggen wrote:

Not skating at all in the 2nd. This is so bad.

Same story all season. No idea why a team would consistently be so bad with the long change.

Part of it has to be face offs but has to be more to it than that.

Good lord hanging on by anything they can for 2 periods now….

Well I guess they get to pack the X one more time. Or um…well more hockey to watch I guess.

Wild teams of the past would have brought their golf clubs with and rolled over in an elimination game just to stay in Vegas and get some offseason R&R in…I didn’t think they had the fortitude..I was wrong!

This team and young core players have proved they’re different than the teams of the past!

If we could just get Fiala going we could spread out their coverage and free up some space for Kaprizov..

…outside of his dirty bankshot goal Parise, didnt generate any offense the whole game, putting him with Fiala is worthless imo…

Joe you apparently missed his 2 on 1 in the first I believe where both the winger and defensemen fell down on the blue line.

Honestly though I thought he played fine. Is he a top 6 still probably not. Wasn’t anymore invincible than Mojo was.

I’ll say it again EK has been their best player this series and it’s not close.

How about the game by Addison? His 1st playoff game and he played 12+ minutes and was +1 with an assist…. Didn’t seem to overwhelm him, perhaps another rookie could get a shot in his 1st playoff game to give Fiala a worthy linemate?!?

Addison was great! I was hesitant to say anything because I was worried about jinxing him. I thought he played a heckuva game. Definitely helps being paired with Cole.

Addison was for the most part invisible, in a good way. He had a couple rough shifts in the 2nd half of the third, but to be fair the whole team had rough shifts in the 2nd and 3rd periods.

Even though I said they won’t come back to win the series, I LOVE that they had some fight left. Again, makes me hopeful for the future and get all these younger guys some playoff cred. Awesome seeing KRill get his first postseason goal and get the monkey off his back.

I’d like to add something insightful, but I fell asleep when it was 2-1 and woke up to a TurboChop infomercial.

I’ll take credit for the win. I didn’t see the start of the game. When I googled the score were down 1-0. A short while later I googled it again and we were up 3-1. My girlfriend said “Oh man, you better watch it”. I said I can’t, we scored when I wasn’t watching. I’ll jinx them. Didn’t end up watching. Might not watch the next game as well in case I’m the curse.
DT

deertracker wrote:

I’ll take credit for the win. I didn’t see the start of the game. When I googled the score were down 1-0. A short while later I googled it again and we were up 3-1. My girlfriend said “Oh man, you better watch it”. I said I can’t, we scored when I wasn’t watching. I’ll jinx them. Didn’t end up watching. Might not watch the next game as well in case I’m the curse.
DT

We appreciate your sacrifice for the greater good.

VGK controlled the game, but couldn’t score. That’s been their playoff MO for the last couple years, so hopefully it’s messing with their heads.

tswoboda wrote:

We appreciate your sacrifice for the greater good.

VGK controlled the game, but couldn’t score. That’s been their playoff MO for the last couple years, so hopefully it’s messing with their heads.

Remember, they also went up 3-1 to San Jose in 2019 then lost the series.