Minnesota WIld @ Philadelphia Flyers: Game 46
by BReynolds on Jan 17, 2012 4:00 PM CST
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Minnesota Wild (22-16-7) at Philadelphia Flyers (26-13-4)
Wells Fargo Center @ 6:00 PM CST
Television: FSN
Listen Live at: KFAN (100.3) or Wild.com
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If you thought it was injuries, giving up on the system and each other, a roster in constant flux, and players being passive and soft on the puck were the cause of the Wild's woes, rejoice in your wrongitude. As we learned in the comment section for the opposition today, it was all Corsi and on-ice save percentages. Te loss of Koivu did nothing to this team the first round, the hit Pierre-Marc Bouchard took from Bogosian had no impact on his play, Guillaume Latendresse is a terrible hockey player, oh and Mikko Koivu is mediocre.
All good lessons to have going into the game, so that you all know just how big of morons you all are for thinking there was some kind of performance based reasoning to the slide. Enjoy that, everyone.
Also, for anyone who has been around SBNation for more than this season (welcome to those who haven't), remember when you could go to an opposing team's SBNation site and not instantly be treated like a pariah? Those were the days.
To the game, as if it actually matters.
The Flyers have proven themselves to be a better team than the Wild, despite injuries to their roster as well. Chris Pronger is out with a concussion, a little karmic irony if there ever was any, meaning he won't be out there patrolling the ice, which would give the Wild a better chance to win, if not for their complete ineptitude on the ice. The list of players who have been inured for the Flyers is nearly as long as that of the Wild. The biggest difference is that HWSRN did not draft the guys who fill in for injured Flyers.
Of course, injuries are no excuse, especially when the injured players can be filled in for by guys who should likely be in the NHL anyway.
in order to win this game, the Wild need to hope for a rip in the space-time continuum and for the Flyers to play one of their worst games of the year. Look at the lineup the Wild is going to put out there tonight. We're not convinced this lineup could beat most AHL squads, let alone one of the best in the East.
See, there we did it again. The players in the lineup make no difference. How can we possibly get past this belief that who is playing matters? Perhaps some electro-convulsive therapy. Bring it on.
Enjoy the game. Or, what passes as a game these days.
Five Questions:
- Has to be asked - Can the Wild rally around each other and pull out a win?
- How bad can it look without Koivu?
- Will anyone on the team step up to play some defense?
- Harding with his fourth straight start. How long is he in a Wild sweater?
- Can we get through this one without a lecture?
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1. I don’t see it happening tonight.
2. The real question: How much worse can it get?
3. Please, PLEASE, go back to what made you guys great, Wild d-men.
4. If Fletch truly does work out a trade for some offensive support, I expect Harding to be part of the equation, as I don’t see much else anyone would want. That being said, I fully expect Harding to be in a Wild sweater at the end of the season, not because I don’t trust Fletch to be able to make trades, but because no one makes a career back-up their big trade deadline acquisition.
5. Hell no. We’ve been getting lectures ever since hockey fans remembered there was a team in Minnesota.
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I want effort
I have seen this down spiral before when Mikko does not play. NOT FUN! However I just want some effort/ heart tonight and go from there. One step at a time. I think I just have to hope for the best.
For the sake of accurate representation, what I actually said was not that Latendresse is a terrible hockey player and Koivu is mediocre, but that forwards have virtually no impact on a goalie save percentage and that even if you reject that claim, those players had done nothing in recent years to suggest they were particularly good at improving save percentage.
And I specifically did not say that the injuries had no impact on the team, but that while I expected regression, the injuries made this stretch worse than anyone expected.
I know you guys don’t want to hear about regression any more, so I won’t bring the conversation here — anyone who’s interested is welcome to discuss it at BSH. But if you’re going to paraphrase me, please at least try to do it faithfully rather than exaggerating it to nonsensical extreme.
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Forwards have virtually no impact on a goalie save percentage
I’ll agree with this as far as Latendresse and PMB go, but as for Koivu, he’s a two-way master on this team, you can’t overlook his importance on the PK or when the opposing team removes their goaltender. Anyone who watches Koivu in those situations can see that he’s very good at preventing shots and cutting passing lanes, so in that regard, I would say that a forward such as Koivu can help a goalie.
You cannot deny that while the goalies aren’t at 93% like they were early in the season, 92.3% and 92.9% are still above average, so the goalies certainly haven’t been the problem.
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Through 30 games, the team Sv% was .936. In the last 15, it’s .914.
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Yawn
Someone wake me up when this is over.
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Ok
But in the first 30 games, they had 76 goals and in the last 15, they had 24. (Not counting shootout goals)
You can’t overlook the importance of offense, it’s a confidence and momentum bringer. If you don’t score, everything becomes harder.
Also, you’d be hard-pressed to find any goal the defense wasn’t at fault for lately.
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Agreed, the offense has had an outage, which is undoubtedly related to the loss of key forwards. Which is why they’ve been an unsustainably bad 2-13.
Goaltending certainly doesn’t explain all of what’s happened — which has been worse than any stathead suggested. But I think it has to be considered a significant factor.
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I don't really think so
If you watch the Wild play, most goals have been caused by unforgiveable mistakes by the defense, mistakes which simply didn’t happen early on in the season. There hasn’t been anything wrong with the goaltending as far as I’m concerned, but any goalie will find it hard to make a save when the D leaves him up to dry.
The most recent game against the Blackhawks is a perfect example of this.
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This is believable. How about if I rephrase to something wordier but perhaps more precise:
No defense can consistently limit dangerous shots to such an extent that a .936 save percentage would be a reasonable expectation. The Wild defense and goaltenders together were playing extremely well early in the season and in combination achieved a .936 save percentage, but in the long run it was inevitable that there would be more dangerous shots and/or fewer great saves.
And that regression from a .936 save percentage to a .914 save percentage has been a significant factor in the current slide, but certainly doesn’t explain all of it.
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That's pretty much the gist of it, yeah.
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Here’s the link folks: you tell me what he said.
You can look up save percentages with a guy on or off the ice, and you’ll see that no forward consistently drives save percentage down. Even if you reject that claim, Bouchard has one of the lowest on-ice save percentages on the team (and did last year too, so it’s not the fuzzy head hypothesis). Koivu was mediocre at it last year. The last time Latendresse played more than half the games, he was mediocre at it.
Is the comment I’m looking at. Sure, the comment limits Koivu’s play last year to mediocrity, something I disagree with completely. And rather than the word terrible, he uses “mediocre” for Latendresse as well. Shall I apologize for using some hyperbole in my writing? I don’t think I will. Well, not until other fanbases stop using terms like “worst team in the league” to describe the Wild. Seems hyperbole is acceptable around here. Just sharing the love, good sir.
I have zero issue with the paraphrase I put up. None at all. I think it sums up your real feelings pretty well.
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What I was trying to say there was that:
a) No forward consistently drives save percentage down
b) Perhaps you don’t believe that. In that case (though I think you are wrong), you should note that none of Bouchard, Koivu, and Latendresse showed the ability to boost their goaltender’s save percentage last year.
It should be fairly obvious that “I don’t believe any player can do X consistently, and neither Koivu nor Latendresse did it last year” does not mean “Koivu and Latendresse are mediocre hockey players”.
@BSH_EricT
Writer at Broad Street Hockey
Saying Koivu was ''mediocre'' at it last year
Is unfair, because any player will look mediocre at it when the team looks that bad. It’s virtually impossible that Koivu could’ve been worse than any other Wild player in ‘’on-ice save percentage’’
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I just meant that of the 12 forwards who played at least 40 games last year, he was 7th in on-ice save percentage (at even strength). The leaders were Kobasew, Miettinen, and Brunette, for what that’s worth.
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Then your stats are junk. If forwards don’t have anything to do with save %, the stat is fundamentally flawed and garbage. Simple as that.
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Your save percentage stat Even strength?
Because Koivu rocks a ton of PK time, and while he is damn good at lots of goals happen on the PK.
Yeah, just talking about 5 on 5 here. Obviously guys who get a lot of PK time would be ruined in overall numbers.
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Well
To be fair, the team dressing tonight is likely the worst team in the league…
Truth
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Also...
Question 5? Answered.
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whats with the video on gamedays
Who’s being introduced
#clueless
by Pewterschmidt on Jan 17, 2012 4:29 PM CST via mobile reply actions
The video is the songs they play during warm-ups at the X. No one is being introduced, it’s just the song. Ha ha.
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By the Way
Who is searching for the term “blow job” and finding Hockey Wilderness?
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Game time. Any bold predictions?
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Here's mine...
It’s not a total Philadelphia blowout victory. That’s about as bold as I can get considering how bad the Wild have been on the road recently.
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The best part? If you remove “on the road,” it still works.
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Truth in advertising
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HA!
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Tebow prays to Granlund.
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Ugh
Anyone who likes advanced stats has to be a huge fan of Tebow, because both have simply become massive over-simplifications of complex events.
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Interesting call.
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This PK ought to be interesting
And by interesting, I mean painful to watch
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I'm shocked they scored there.
Shocked I say.
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The McIntyre – Peters- Clutterbuck line must really intimidate the Hartnell – Giroux – Jagr line.
Sigh.
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Whoa
Falk got a shot on goal from the blueline? Is that allowed?
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This game looks like Canada vs Bulgaria.
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This is just painful
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A good shift, eh?
Yep. They didn’t get scored on. Good shift.
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Well, they can be physical
Now… can they score a goal?
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Thoughts anyone?
Have to be glad they are only down one, right?
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late start
Yes. I would say so!
by Bouchy Mane on Jan 17, 2012 7:02 PM CST via iPhone app up reply actions
So...
Was I right, and no one wants to watch this, or are you all hiding and waiting for something good to happen?
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Out and about
But it did make me realize how far the Wild have fallen when I checked in and thought “oh, they’re only down 1 after 1, good”
by Xenai on Jan 17, 2012 7:08 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
No TV
But I’m still sitting in my dorm room with my Wild sweater, tentatively listening to KFAN and following the in-game-commentary.
by Joel Bertelsen on Jan 17, 2012 7:09 PM CST up reply actions
No TV? How the hell does one live without TV?
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It's a battle
But the powers that be out here at the Air Force Academy say it’s a class privilege and being only a sophomore I do not have that privilege. No gamecenter either, the internet is terribly sloooow
by Joel Bertelsen on Jan 17, 2012 7:17 PM CST up reply actions
That sucks.
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I'm back
Just got done tutoring my cousin. Math troubles.
How’s the game so far?
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Well, some sustained pressure, but nothing overly exciting. Only down 1. At this point in the game, that’s huge.
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Cool beans
Not the disaster we predicted…yet.
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Not cool, Meszaros
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Minnesota Wild Succubus Power Play brought to you by... Mikko Koivu (apparently)
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Under
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Cal hurt and bleeding
From a boarding? It was clearly a toe pick, and Mesaros DID put his hand on his back to let him know he was there, right?
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Wow, Spurgeon is amazingly bad on this PP
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Had to see that coming
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I'm watching
and reading tweets about the Dad’s Trip…and speculating on how hilarious a Mom’s Trip would be. NHL players and their hockey moms. Think about it….
"Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory lasts forever." Shane Falco
"The Sharks got the better deal. They got a Burns. The Wild lost a Burns. You need a Burns to be good." KFAN's Jacques Lemaire 6-25-2011
by minnesotagirl71 on Jan 17, 2012 7:19 PM CST via Android app reply actions
Pretty sure it rotates every other year. Moms were last year.
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seriously?
I was kidding. Having your mom dip her napkin in her water glass and clean your face…or use her thumb to scrub lipstick off your face after kissing you…seems like fodder for endless teasing from your teammates.
"Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory lasts forever." Shane Falco
"The Sharks got the better deal. They got a Burns. The Wild lost a Burns. You need a Burns to be good." KFAN's Jacques Lemaire 6-25-2011
by minnesotagirl71 on Jan 17, 2012 7:27 PM CST via Android app up reply actions
Hahaha
That’s a pretty funny thought. The only person on the team that I see that happening to is Spurgeon.
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Yep. They do. And that would be awesome. Plus, I think Wellman’s mom is hot, if I remember correctly.
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I just remember Wellmans parents kissing across him on the kiss cam. It was his very first call up and scratch. Hilarious!
"Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory lasts forever." Shane Falco
"The Sharks got the better deal. They got a Burns. The Wild lost a Burns. You need a Burns to be good." KFAN's Jacques Lemaire 6-25-2011
by minnesotagirl71 on Jan 17, 2012 7:39 PM CST via Android app up reply actions
That was a cute/ugly goal
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POWE
Nice shot
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Well now.
A goal from Powe, eh? The folks who were mocking him at BSH get a little helping of crow.
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Hey, we generally loved Powe for all the time he was with us on the Flyers. On the fourth line though.
Simon Gagne AND Mike Richards may move between towns, wear new jerseys and call different arenas home but, at the end of the day, they will both always be Philadelphia Flyers.
One day Sean Couturier will win the Conn Smythe. You heard it here first.
by PursuitOfLappyness on Jan 17, 2012 7:22 PM CST up reply actions
Normally where he is for the Wild. Injuries have demanded otherwise.
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Ugh...
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Clutterbuck...temper.
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So whats the deal???
Is this team/ organization content with us missing the playoffs? Obviously we need scoreing, are we going to make a trade or just watch us shit the bed the rest of the season?
Why the Wild won't trade
A) Not a whole lot of sellers
B) Trading for one player isn’t going to magically cure anything
C) Not enough tradable assets on the roster
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Yea I agree....
I wouldnt mind us trading Harding. I hope we dont trade any of our top 10 prospects. Hopefully we can sign Parise next year to.
by Fantasy Master on Jan 17, 2012 7:32 PM CST up reply actions
As the saying goes...
Wish in one hand and shit in the other.
So few teams that would actually trade for Harding at this point. It’s just a lot easier waiting for him to go to free agency at the end of the season instead of giving up anything.
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This won't be fixed with one trade
I’m guessing they’ll want to try to defend the playoff spot, but I hope they don’t start buying their way to an improbable playoff spot, I don’t want Fletch to sacrifice anything the Wild will need in years to come.
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4-1
What a fucking surprise…
To be fair, it may be my fault, they were doing fine before I came along
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No they weren’t. They were lucky.
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Make it fucking stop
Being from Minnesota, it would be rude to put something clever here.
by redheadzeb on Jan 17, 2012 7:31 PM CST via Android app reply actions
This ultra passive defense needs to die in a fire. Some one needs to seriously take the defensive planning and burn it.
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Flyers taking a timeout
Rub it in.
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Hey, the Wild are a dangerous team…sometimes…maybe…in an NHL video game…when the roster has been retooled
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At least the future is bright...hopefully
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The future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades. Also, then no one will recognize me.
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Has Carson McMillan/Seth Rogen even played yet?
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6 minutes TOI.
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Didn't even notice him..
He does look like Seth Rogen.. kind of has the same smirk
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So what you’re saying is that you, McMillan, and Seth Rogan are all each other’s doppelgangers.
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Me, Myself and I
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Zidlicky, Johnson, Cullen all -2.
“Top” line, and “top” pairing D-man.
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Brodziak, Lundin, Schultz, and McIntyre all on for two against. One ES, one on PK
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Setoguchi with less TOI than McIntyre
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Remember how excited we were about Seto?
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Yep. Fail.
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Hell
Only I, er… Seth, er… Carson McMillan has less TOI than Seto.
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Whoops
Never mind, Staubitz and Wellman have less too.
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Hmmm Yeo not playing guys with some offensive talent on an offensively challenged team...
Fail for Nail? Could we do it, go from first to worst in the same season?
by Joel Bertelsen on Jan 17, 2012 7:53 PM CST up reply actions
Doubtful
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Just because he has more offensive talent
Doesn’t mean he should magically get ice time if he’s not earning it.
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I know
I was making a joke.
Albeit, a bad one.
by Joel Bertelsen on Jan 17, 2012 7:56 PM CST up reply actions
I see. Sorry then
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I’m actually at the point where I’m doubting that Setoguchi has that much offensive talent.
I was afraid of this, but I’m really getting the sinking feeling that Seto was simply a product of a system, like Jonathan Cheechoo.
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Quite possible
Yuck
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I’ll say it. I don’t get why the fuck he doesn’t move Wellman up. This “One worker, one goal scorer” on each line is bull shit. Terrible idea, and it is showing right now. Top line should be Heater, Cullen, Wellman. The kid is not a grinder, and if they think he is, they’re nuts.
If he can’t hack it as a top 6, then send him down and try someone else. He is ineffective on the 4th line. Too small, not strong enough. He is fast and has a good shot. Needs to be up top right now.
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Exactly what I said earlier
The offense is spread too thin, makes it so there are no dangerous lines.
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Holy shit
Potter ends up stomping on Hall’s head. Why in the fuck do players not wear helmets in warm ups? Nathan and I actually talked about this at a game earlier this season. Pretty sure it was even the Oilers game. Owners paying these guys millions, and they are out there with pucks flying and no helmets? Not a chance if it were my squad.
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Brodziak hits the post
You’re fucking kidding me
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What a train wreck.
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Double minor..
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I'm a shoot first kind of guy, but...
What the hell was Peters thinking there? Bryz square to him, angles cut off, and he shoots it right into his chest? That’s dangerous…
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Geez
Giroux’s got some Hartnell hair.
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On the plus side
Granlund has a point in every game sice the WJC.
by ThatGuy22 on Jan 17, 2012 8:09 PM CST via Android app reply actions
Yeo forgot
to give the “Stay away from dumb, gentlemen.” speech.
Clutterbuck takes an extra two for yapping and Stoner could have really hurt Harding by shoving Hartnell into him.
Ugh.
"Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory lasts forever." Shane Falco
"The Sharks got the better deal. They got a Burns. The Wild lost a Burns. You need a Burns to be good." KFAN's Jacques Lemaire 6-25-2011
by minnesotagirl71 on Jan 17, 2012 8:09 PM CST via Android app reply actions
Wellman moving up in the world
He’s gone from the 4th line to the 3rd line. Progress.
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Regressing all the way back to high school hockey.
Mikael Granlund = Suomi Savior
Flyers pretty much just practicing at this point
They’re making it look easy
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What's really sad:
The Flyers have clearly taken their foot off the gas, yet they are still completely outplaying the Wild in every single facet of the game.
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Mikael Granlund = Suomi Savior
Except the physical game
Yay?
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With a roster full of grinders and muckers, the Wild needed to win the “hits” battle or the team would earn the label “Completely Useless”
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I think they still earned the title
Completely Useless
Thats Eric Guftasson!
THERE IS NO ERIC GUFTASSON!
reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N4mE6tnS4g
Ha ha. Well done.
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Sigh
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Lemme fix that
The Wild look are completely lost
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Hockey Wilderness would be much less Canadian
Which would be a tragedy
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Hockey Wilderness would be much less Canadian
Which would be a tragedy awesome.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce J.S.
The resident Canadian punching bag hahaha
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Sigh
What’s that all aboot?
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Clutter with another penalty
Way to be a leader…
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At least he plays like he cares
Which is more than we can say for anyone else, but it’s hurting the team.
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Just going to throw this out there,
How badly are the Blue Jackets kicking themselves for trading Voracek and the 8th overal pick (Sean Couturier)?
Well
Carter was supposed to make Nash explode… that failed… plus, Columbus may be even worse than the Wild are as far as developping players go… so….yeah, it was still a pretty dumb trade.
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The Flyers also got a third rounder back. That turned into Nick Cousins who has been doing pretty solidly in the OHL and hopefully eventually gets a shot on the NHL roster.
Simon Gagne AND Mike Richards may move between towns, wear new jerseys and call different arenas home but, at the end of the day, they will both always be Philadelphia Flyers.
One day Sean Couturier will win the Conn Smythe. You heard it here first.
by PursuitOfLappyness on Jan 17, 2012 8:39 PM CST up reply actions
From Russo
Wild is defeated — 5-1. 0-8-2 last 10 on the road, 2-10-4 last 16 overall
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Not quite the numbers you would expect from a 1st place team in December
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Think we might want to eat crow...
they will not make the playoffs at this rate!
We all knew they weren't going to remain in 1st place
But we at least expected to make the playoffs. Only a collapse of this magnitude could stop them, and no one could expect that, not even the haters, seriously.
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I agree...
Still pretty sour taste in my mouth, I expected more from Pros.
Hell yes
I mean, sure the injuries have played a big part, but they’ve simply stopped playing properly, and that’S inexcusable
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I feel about as empty as I did last season. This is a void even alcohol cannot fill, but I’ll try anyway.
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Jameson on the rocks. The sweet burn tends to drown the sorrow
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That’s what she said
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Well done
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That’s what she said
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Regressing all the way back to high school hockey.
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Always looking to chain together “that’s what she said” comebacks. Record is 8 in one chain hahaha
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Haha, ok
You know you're a Wild fan if Spam Whoopie Gerald-buns comes up in conversation
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Mikael Granlund = Suomi Savior
Try Nyquil
Sleep will make it all go much faster
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Bacardi 151, straight
May be your best choice at this point. Waste no time.
by Joel Bertelsen on Jan 17, 2012 8:37 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Ahhh, the sweet, sweet sound of the final buzzer
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Wow
Harding is 18-37-5 on the road? How is that possible?
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He plays for the Wild
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Oh yeah
That does make sense
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In the past, he was always thrown in against teams the Wild had no chance to beat.
Wait…
Nothing has changed there.
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Stat nerd
"Believe in the system. For it shall bring light when there is dark, food when there is hunger, and shots when there are passes. This is the divine process." Yeo 4:18
by NorthernStar on Jan 17, 2012 8:53 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
Almost done. Thought about just writing “Ah fuck it, no one’s reading anyway.”
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Good, I’m excited to read about the game Flyers practice
by Joel Bertelsen on Jan 17, 2012 8:58 PM CST up reply actions
All on Harding obviously
His inability to sustain a forecheck and create scoring chances killed us tonight
"Believe in the system. For it shall bring light when there is dark, food when there is hunger, and shots when there are passes. This is the divine process." Yeo 4:18
by NorthernStar on Jan 17, 2012 8:47 PM CST via mobile reply actions
Gamer up
http://www.hockeywilderness.com/2012/1/17/2715063/minnesota-wild-philadelphia-flyers-game-recap
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