The Wild scare me. We played pretty much as well as this group can, on home ice, Hutch was strong, they were missing two key pieces, and that game still could have gone either way.
Dubnyk is a monster. He will likely regress a bit, but I can see him really carrying the Wild down the stretch. With the Jets, you know Pav will get about 40% of the starts down the stretch and if you just do the math on his record over the last three.five years (or just look at his record this year if you really like Pav and are trying to make a counter argument about how awesome he really is), that spells a lot of points that we are going to give away.
The Wild goal is on Maurice. He needs to be way smarter on his player management. I coach rec soccer where everyone gets a certain amount of time on the pitch and know enough not to load up the field with all of the beginner / weaker players at the same time. The only time I do that is if we are already up three goals and had to remove a player, so that they can score a goal and I can put the player that I had to remove back on the field.
For a big man, Buff is fast and agile. I am really glad that Maurice was reading my posts about a week ago calling for Buff at forward. While everyone else was throwing pies in my face, Maurice was listening.
OK, maybe he moved him up because somehow there became an empty forward seat on the bus, but I prefer to look at it the way I describe.
