Hockey Wilderness: An SB Nation Community

Navigation: Jump to content areas:



Sports blogs for fans, by fans.
New Blog: Backing the Pack for NC State Fans!


Minnesota Wild @ Anaheim Ducks:

Minnesota Wild @ Anaheim Ducks


Minnesotawild_medium  Bq5gu2bf4nx5wuv9ybk59wa7g_medium

Minnesota Wild (15-12-1) @ Anaheim Ducks (16-11-3)

Honda Center @ 7:00 CST

Television: FSN
Listen live on WCCO.com
, or locally at 830 AM

For the Ducks perspective, check out Battle of California

Tonight's lines:

Minnesota Wild

Anaheim Ducks

Veilleux - Koivu - Mittens
Brunette - Gillies - Bouchard
Burns - Sheppard - Gilles
Weller - Pouliot - Boogaard

Johnsson - Schultz
Zidlicky - Skoula
Reitz - Bergeron

Backstrom
Harding

Ryan - Getzlaf - Perry
Kunitz - Morrison - Selanne
Moen - Pahlsson - Niedermayer
May - Marchant - Parros

Pronger - Huskins
Niedermayer - Festerling
Hedican - Montador

Giguere
Hiller


Minnesota Wild Injuries

Questionable

Player Injury Type Injury Date
Owen Nolan right leg 12.14.2008

Out (IR / Out / Suspended / Physically unvailable)

Player Injury Type Injury Date
Marian Gaborik lower body 10.15.2008
Kurtis Foster left leg surgery 9.20.2008


Anaheim Ducks Injuries

Questionable

Player Injury Type Injury Date
Brad May right knee 12.14.2008

Out (IR / Out / Suspended / Physically unvailable)

Player Injury Type Injury Date
Francois Beauchemin left knee surgery 11.15.2008
Brad Larsen sports hernia surgery 10.9.2008


Notes
  • The Wild have dropped four in a row in regulation for the first time since Nov. 20-28, 2003.
  • The Wild are 4th in the NHL on the power play, (24.4%), but are last in the NHL with 40 even-strength goals in 28 games.
  • The Wild are 1-for-14 in those situations over the last four contests.
  • Minnesota is 9-4-0 in the series since March 28, 2004
  • The Ducks are just 3-for-22 over their last seven games
From Russo's Rants

The Wild, let’s just say, they’re not very good right now. I really, really hope all the Wild fans in the crowd today didn’t actually spend money on plane tickets to come out here and see today’s performance.

Regardless of the reason for the Wild’s terrible effort early in this game, what’s more frightening is nobody in the locker room I interviewed would admit to it. I am not kidding you, other than Antti Miettinen, five of the six players I interviewed all felt the team’s start tonight was fine and it played well in the first and second periods.

Sure. I guess it was deceiving when the Wild was being outshot 40-20 at one point.

Questions to Answer

  1. Will the offense wake the hell up?
  2. With Brian Burke gone, is Anaheim still the evil center of hockey
  3. Will Andrew Brunette
  4. Who, aside from Kopitar, will impress the Wild enough to be considered a target for the Gaborik trade?
  5. Will O'Sullivan get payback?

0 recs | Comment 8 comments

Story-email Email Printer Print

Comments

Display:

  1. Who, aside from Kopitar, will impress the Wild enough to be considered a target for the Gaborik trade?
  2. Will O’Sullivan get payback?

?? LOL wrong game preview

But anyway…Getzlaf got a goal for Anaheim…its 1-0 Early…This game is already over

by Tony_O on Dec 14, 2008 7:14 PM CST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Ugh.

The only way to avoid failure, is to learn from it.

by buddhafisch on Dec 14, 2008 7:17 PM CST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I still don't feel good about this...

The only way to avoid failure, is to learn from it.

by buddhafisch on Dec 14, 2008 7:59 PM CST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

2-2????

WTF? The game started? Who told the guys?

The only way to avoid failure, is to learn from it.

by buddhafisch on Dec 14, 2008 8:06 PM CST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Ballgame.

By the way, captain johnsson is great…for me to poop on!

by mbennett on Dec 14, 2008 8:36 PM CST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Argh

Stupid save button. Why oh why dost thou torment me???

Sorry guys.

by nathaneide on Dec 14, 2008 9:48 PM CST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Comments For This Post Are Closed


User Tools

Welcome to the SB Nation blog about Minnesota Wild Hockey!
Start posting about the Wild »

Join SB Nation and dive into communities focused on all your favorite teams.

FanPosts

Community blog posts and discussion.

Recent FanPosts

Gophs_small
Big Trades Go Down..
Gophs_small
And the new GM of the Wild is!
Logo1_small
Pierre McGuire as GM is a Wild idea
Small
Could it ever work?
Misconduct2_small
Doug Risebrough Fired
Small
New Direction
Darthgreg_small
So, it's the offseason.....now what?
Peter_griffin_small
Last home game televised
Hrbek_small
Want to loan the Wild some money?
Kari_takko_small
Ron Wilson to coach Team USA

Post_icon New FanPost All FanPosts Carrot-mini


Managers

Twitter_profile_small nathaneide

Authors

Hockey_small mbennett

Misconduct2_small HockeyJoe

100_3195_small buddhafisch

Official Partner of Yahoo! Sports