Minnesota Wild vs. Atlanta Thrashers: Game Recap
by nathaneide on Feb 12, 2010 10:09 PM CST
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Minnesota Wild 2 - 3 Atlanta Thrashers
Ugly, ugly, ugly. Wild fight back to tie the game in the first period thanks to a nice goal from Andrew Brunette, take the lead from Andrew Ebbett, then apparently alternated between napping and taking penalties. Yes, penalties, eight minors in all, though they killed seven. Oh, and the officiating crew will also handle the game with the Canucks on Sunday.
Niklas Backstrom was less than awesome tonight. He just seems to be lacking in focus and the team was lacking in discipline, it wasn't a good combination.
I would put more thought into the breakdown of the game, but today's move with Chicago proves that the Wild are selling, and I don't have a problem with that at all.
Hockey Wilderness 3 Stars:
- Mikko Koivu (2 A)
- Pavel Kubina (2 A)
- Niclas Bergfors (1 G)
Five Questions to Answer:
- What kind of impact will the absence of Kim Johnsson have on the Wild's defense TOI? Brett Burns, Nick Schultz, Greg Zanon and Marek Zidlicky all over 23:00 TOI, Shane Hnidy and John Scott with 11 and 6 respectively.
- Bogosian, Oduya, Hainsey, all solid young defensemen. How will they look against the Wild tonight? Frankly, they looked good. Love this core.
- Guillaume Latendresse rules all, right? Indeed, though didn't do much tonight.
- Can the Wild look much better than the anemic performance against Phoenix? Not so much.
- How will Cody Almond look in his NHL debut? 2:59 TOI. Who knows what he can really do.
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Struggling
From the arena seats, the Wild sure looked like a team fighting the puck—and the ice in some cases; Zidlicky fell down twice on his own and Nolan once that I noticed.
Overall, the play wasn’t as bad as it was in October. However, for a team that knows they need to not be losing 2 in a row (at home no less) to save a remote shot at the last playoff spot, a performance like that late in the season cannot be happening. Add in fighting the officials and I am left with a bad taste still at 9:00 AM the next day. I’m not going to “blame” the officials for the loss because there sure were enough other opportunities to take control of the game, but the Wild sure didn’t seem to get the benefit of the doubt.
Let's Go Wild!
I’m going to be sad to see players like Nolan be tradded off, but it is the right thing to do. Hopefully the picks and/or prospects we get in return will pay dividends.
Eric Belanger is making an appearence at Great Waters Brewing Co. from 2-3 today: could this be our last chance to see him as a member of the Minnesota Wild?
Let's Go Wild!
Afinogenov
Looks like he’s been taking acting lessons from Vlade Divac. I won’t say too much about the refs, the Wild deserved most of their penalties, didn’t like the 2 tripping penalties though. Hopefully on sunday this crew realizes there are 2 teams on the ice. Excited to see Barker on sunday. The Wild just let this one get away, plain and simple.
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