Steel vs Sundqvist, dumb. Steel has zero net presence. We desperately need a net front presence in front of Ottenger. Damnation I miss Ek! Pull Reaves and put in Sundqvist
This stament makes little sense. First it is Sundquist in over Steel then you say Sundquist over Reaves.
I would agree about putting Sundquist in over Reaves but it has nothing to do with Steel.
I’m with you Joe. My glass is still half full at this point.
I thought the Wild did a pretty good job of trying to stay out of the box last night with only 3 penalties taken. Both of Moose’s penalties were iffy at best.
I don’t know if you would blame this on a player, or multiple players, or coaching, but special teams is what will hold this team back from a deep run.
Dallas has scored 13 goals in the series:
– 7 PPG
– 1 SHG
Wild have: 13 goals as well, with:
– 4 PPG
It’s great to be a big physical team that throws their weight around, until you run into a ref crew that is calling lame penalties and you give up a goal on every other powerplay.
The first game our faceoff ‘skills’ definitely had something to do with it, as their two PP goals were like DIRECTLY off of clean FO wins. But is that it? Guerin seems like a no BS guy right, someone should have their feet to the fire on this as it’s two years in a row our playoff hopes are really limited with such a poor PK.
Like if you advance and have to play the playoff versions of MacKinnon and McDavid/Drai, they’ll friggin score 80% of their chances against this garbage.
Steel vs Sundqvist, dumb. Steel has zero net presence. We desperately need a net front presence in front of Ottenger. Damnation I miss Ek! Pull Reaves and put in Sundqvist
This stament makes little sense. First it is Sundquist in over Steel then you say Sundquist over Reaves.
I would agree about putting Sundquist in over Reaves but it has nothing to do with Steel.
There needs to be a tweak somewhere to get bodies in front of Ottenger. Steel isn’t that guy at all on any line at center. Sundqvist should be in front of the net on any line.
As evenly matched as these teams seem, really curious how Dallas would play, or more specifically Benn, if Reaves was out of the lineup.
Wouldn’t have any problem pulling Reaves for a game and plugging in Sundqvist. Then moving parts as needed.
Tied 2/2 is pretty darn great without Ek and a bit surprised by that with KK and Boldy only having 1 goal between them. Within all that, they have squandered some great opportunities.
If KK and Boldy start getting some pucks in the net, could be a fun finish to the series.
IMO the issues with our powerplay struggling the last quarter of the season/playoffs are the following:
1) Kirill was out the last month of the regular season, so he’s had limited time with the PP1 unit players… he also no longer moving around the zone freely like he was earlier in the season, so Dallas is just assigning a player to stick on him in the bumper spot…
2) We lost Ek who is a key PP piece in terms of faceoffs and his elite net front skillset
3) Klingberg’s skillset includes skating with the puck, he’s struggled with skating it up and then dumping it backwards for the breakout/zone entry
4) Our coaches failling to figure out ways to counter what Dallas is doing on the PK…
5) Zuccy’s dissappearing act the final 30 games of the regular season, he’s just not the same player he was the first 50 games when our PP was clicking…he looked great in game 3, but then regressed a bit again in game 4
Klingbergs skillset includes walking the blue line and getting pucks though traffic and on net. He’s a master at it and hasn’t done much of it in this series yet. They need more of that.
Klingbergs skillset includes walking the blue line and getting pucks though traffic and on net. He’s a master at it and hasn’t done much of it in this series yet. They need more of that.
agreed, but they gotta get in the offensive zone first 
All four non wild card series are tied 2-2.
Well maybe not Leaf’s with epic come back to send it to OT.
Well maybe not Leaf’s with epic come back to send it to OT.
that’s a loss that could haunt Tampa for a long time…
That was quite a comeback in Tampa last night. Three goals in about 7 minutes to send it to OT and then win? Maybe this is a different Toronto team that we’ve seen in the past.
That’s two in a row now but if anyone can still screw this up it’s The Leafs.
Kraken just won’t go away and Colorado is lucky Makar didn’t get a 1 game suspension, that was Bush league.
Kraken might sneak this one out yet. I had a feeling they would make this series tough for the Avs.
and Colorado is lucky Makar didn’t get a 1 game suspension, that was Bush league.
He’ll likely get 1 game today, he has a meeting with Dept of Player Safety which typically = a suspension, but I believe he has a clean record so maybe just a warning? It was hard to hear the whistle so I can see his side of it…on the other hand McCann totally stopped playing because he knew the puck went up into the netting and then got smoked into the boards with a likely shoulder separation…
He clearly hit him before the whistle when I watched it.
He clearly hit him before the whistle when I watched it.
not arguing that, but after watching it several times, Makar will argue he didn’t know the puck went into the netting and just finished his check…The whistle didn’t happen until Makar was in the process of finishing the check, so a hit after the whistle can’t be called…
selfishly I hope he gets a 10 game suspension
Why does the whistle matter? You can’t finish your check on a guy who just had a breakaway and doesn’t have the puck 
Macann shot at the hash marks, never touched the puck again, and then got crumpled in the corner. How far is that like 40+ feet?
Kind of obvious stat of the day, but in NHL series tied 2-2, the team that wins Game 5 wins the series 80% of the time. Big one tonight!!!
Of those 80% how many have 2 home games remaining in the series?
Of those 80% how many have 2 home games remaining in the series?
Zero
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Charlie W wrote:</div>
Of those 80% how many have 2 home games remaining in the series?Zero
* how many had home ice advantage for games 5-7 is what I meant.
Why does the whistle matter? You can’t finish your check on a guy who just had a breakaway and doesn’t have the puck
Macann shot at the hash marks, never touched the puck again, and then got crumpled in the corner. How far is that like 40+ feet?
If that is anybody but Makar that is five minutes.
Of those 80% how many have 2 home games remaining in the series?
It’s happened 158 times, Home team has won 91 (57.5%), away team has won 67 (42.4%). Insert Dumb and Dumber “So you’re telling me there’s a chance” gif here. 
So the higher seed wins a 3 game series 57.5% of the time? Color me shocked 
If that is anybody but Makar that is five minutes.
Exactly. For anyone defending that hit picture the same play but Suter on Kaprizov
If Toronto can finally break the 19 year first round exit curse, maybe there’s hope for us Wild Fans too.
Not sure if you guys heard but Nichushkin is out for the near future with alcohol-related issues. Sucks to see, but it’s worth a note.
Like Rantanen, he doesn’t get the attention that he deserves living in the shadow of Mackinnon and Makar. Although they play a little differently, I compare his impact to the Avs as JEEK is to us.
Sounds like Gus is in net to night. Hoping for a good game tonight.
Makar got a 1 game suspension…
Not sure if you guys heard but Nichushkin is out for the near future with alcohol-related issues. Sucks to see, but it’s worth a note.
He must have shown up to a morning skate just HAMMERED out of his mind…that’s a HUGE loss for them…now Makar out game 5 too…
The Avalanche are dropping like flies – we’ll see how far the Mack and Mikko show can carry them.
Nichushkin was taken out of the team hotel in the middle of the night and went straight to the airport with security. This is the first time I heard it was booze related but not that’s not surprising. Nichushkin was getting a lot of Conne Smyth talk last year he is a beast.
So the higher seed wins a 3 game series 57.5% of the time? Color me shocked
Not really. The winner of Game 5 wins a 2-2 series 80% of the time. 57.5% of the time the higher seed won game 5.
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>tswoboda wrote:</div>
So the higher seed wins a 3 game series 57.5% of the time? Color me shockedNot really. The winner of Game 5 wins a 2-2 series 80% of the time. 57.5% of the time the higher seed won game 5.
Me right now
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