2022/2023 NHL/Wild Offseason-Season-Postseason Thread

This myth that Reaves mere presence will stop every player from doing anything to anybody is just dumb…

Definitely agree with this…

Ripjiggen wrote:

This myth that Reaves mere presence will stop every player from doing anything to anybody is just dumb…

Definitely agree with this…

I don’t know, having Deslauriers on the team last year really ensured that Braydon Schenn didn’t take any liberties with our players in the first round of the playoffs didn’t it?

Oh wait, Schenn basically had free reign on our skill players and smaller defensemen and no one did crap about it. Mainly because Deslauriers couldn’t catch up to anyone and no one on the Blues was stupid enough to actually engage in a fight.

You know the Blues are just hoping you waste a roster spot on some slow, lumbering enforcer, that’s one line they don’t have to worry about scoring against them.

Not to mention it seems like you’re twice as likely to pickup a penalty retaliating to a dirty hit than the original dirty hit.

BG on Barrerro right now. He said its not KK’s knee. So that is good. Not sure what he would have hurt though. Hamstring? Groin?

CaptainMusky wrote:

BG on Barrerro right now. He said its not KK’s knee. So that is good. Not sure what he would have hurt though. Hamstring? Groin?

I know if I even think about doing the splits I feel like a few things would strain or worst case tear…my guess is its a groin strain… There’s no chance he sits for more than a few weeks, I could see him coming back vs the Kraken…(4 of the 7 games he could miss are very winnable without him, Bruins, Capitals and Devils being the tough games)

He’s then hopefully back for the brutal 6 game stretch against Seattle, Vegas x2, Blues, Colorado, Pittsburgh….

Russian machine no break

Hamstring or groin was my guess right after it happened. The way his legs ended up was soft tissue pull, not knee.

JoeMX1825 wrote:

Chuck Fletcher out as Philly GM (man did he do a number on that franchise)

What a fraud Fletcher was. Total embarrassment that it took the Wild 9 years to figure this out.

TheFamousGrouse wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>JoeMX1825 wrote:</div>
Chuck Fletcher out as Philly GM (man did he do a number on that franchise)

What a fraud Fletcher was. Total embarrassment that it took the Wild 9 years to figure this out.

The ONLY positive i’ll say about Fletcher is he was the first MN Sports team GM (outside of the Vikings Speilman) who at least threw all of his chips out on the table to try and win in the playoffs. Yes, he burned the prospect pool down to nothing and most of his trades were terrible, but he did go for it…for how many years have MN GM’s talked about they can’t sacrifice the future and we’ll eventually be good….

Lol, Wild completely forgets how to play defense when Flower’s in net…

Flower is playing by himself out there.

Johansson is really trying to redeem himself from his last stint here. He’s been great so far.

Remember when we had a goalie problem???

Steel had another invisible game, I wonder if they give Walker a shot tonight?

Remember when we lost 3 games in a row and this team was the worst in the NHL and Flower needs to retire?

Ripjiggen wrote:

Remember when we lost 3 games in a row and this team was the worst in the NHL and Flower needs to retire?

well we are used to it being MN sports fans. It’s always doom and gloom. Only survived the first period will have to watch the recap but 5 goals? Kirill who?

2023 All Hockey Hair Team Video, John King is a beauty!

Never gets old

Rossi and Beckman have been on a nice goal & point streak recently. Rossi has 8 points in his last 4 games.

JoeMX1825 wrote:

Rossi and Beckman have been on a nice goal & point streak recently. Rossi has 8 points in his last 4 games.

major we can’t talk about that here lol

CaptainMusky wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>JoeMX1825 wrote:</div>
Rossi and Beckman have been on a nice goal & point streak recently. Rossi has 8 points in his last 4 games.

major we can’t talk about that here lol

of for sure we can, I’m glad they aren’t pouting and instead improving/developing…

JoeMX1825 wrote:

Remember when we had a goalie problem???

Steel had another invisible game, I wonder if they give Walker a shot tonight?

Best goalie tandem I can remember.

Steel must have some serious dirt on somebody, seriously what is their fascination with him?

Reaves was dead tired after skating hard all shift and putting that Coyotes defenseman through the boards… no energy to fight, I think we’ll see round 2 later…

Didn’t realize David Koresh played for the coyotes.

Wow. Lots of fighting going on so far. It’s not even 5 minutes into the game.

It’s like losing KK woke everyone up. Now everyone is scoring. I know these are two bad teams but it’s nice to see others actually can. Even Reaves joked about it being his job now in his interview lol.

Reaves. Gordie Howe hat trick.

Agreed.

Nice to see some 5 on 5 goals.

AK Guy wrote:

Reaves. Gordie Howe hat trick.

Nice! I had paused and am a few minutes behind. You confirmed the assist before the announcement.

I’m done with the goose, wth!?!?

basseyes wrote:

I’m done with the goose, wth!?!?

Yeah that was brutal

Also feel like McBain is gonna be like this every time we play him in his career.

The boldy Ek mojo combo seems to be working pretty well. Couple more games will help but I’ve been impressed so far.