GDT: GAME 11: Nashville Predators @ Minnesota Wild 7PM CST

[tyratoku]

vs

Saturday, February 9th
7:00 PM CST

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Nashville:

5-2-3 13p
4-2-1 on the road this season
23GF 21GA
Won the last 4 games
Won the last two games against Los Angeles 3-0 and St. Louis 6-1

Leading Scorers:

Martin Erat
3 Goals, 4 Assists for 7 Points (9gp)

Colin Wilson
3 Goals, 4 Assists for 7 Points (10gp)

Kevin Klein
1 Goals, 4 Assists for 5 Points (10gp)

Shea Weber has only 1 Assist in 10 Games this season

LINEUP
Kostitsyn - Fisher - Erat
Bourque - Legwand - Wilson
Yip - Spaling - Smith
No idea on 4th Line

Weber - Josi
Klein - Hannan
Blum - Gill
Ellis

Pekka Rinne
Started 9 Games, 564 Minutes
1.81 GAA
.933 Saves Percentage
4 Wins, 1 Shutout

Lose Suter, gain Underwood. Grade the Trade?

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Minnesota:

4-5-1 10gp
2-1-2 At Home
22 GF, 28 GA
Lost the last 3 games(Anaheim, Phoenix, Vancouver)

Leading Scorers:

Zach Parise
6 Goals, 4 Assists for 10 Points, (10gp)

Mikko Koivu
2 Goals, 6 Assists for 8 Points (10gp)

BNTG Tom Gilbert
3 Goals, 4 Assists for 7 Points (10gp)

Ryan Suter has 4 Assists this season, but is -7 on the year. Has improved significantly since being paired with Jonas Brodin.

Who, by the way, is soooooo dreamy
0 Goals, 3 Assists for 3 Points (7gp)

LINEUP
Parise - Koivu - Coyle
Heatley - Granlund - Setoguchi
Clutterbuck - Cullen - Brodziak
PMB - Konopka - Rupp

Suter - Brodin
Gilbert - Stoner
Prosser - Falk

Josh Harding
Started 3 Games, 144 Minutes
2.92 GAA
.885 Save Percentage
1 Win, 1 Shutout

Link
Backstrom gets the start. Yeo wants to "give him a chance to respond"

Started 7 Games, 457 Minutes
2.76 GAA
.902 Save Percentage
3 Wins, 0 Shutouts

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[rynryn]

We're going to win this one.

 

[Karl]

Nice GDT. Ok boys, no need to panic but it would be nice to win a few games here.

 

[Karl]

Hmmmm an Underwood -Brodin pairing..... could be interesting.

 

[jedisports]

THIS game is going to put us back on track and Suter will have a fantastic night!

Nice opening, it looks great. I love that Parise shot. I need some Parise icons badly.

Anyway, we will win this, I predict, 4-2.

Parise 1, Koivu, 1, Seto 1, Suter 1.

 

[Dampland]

Nashville 4-1 (empty netter)

Parise score for Wild (assist by Coyle)

Shea Weber either scores or gets 2 assists for Preds.

WIld will be outshot by at least 10 shots.

Will be another ugly game to watch.

 

[Lapa]

I expect two things tonight:

1. Wake the **** up, guys
2. A win

 

[jedisports]

I don't care how ugly it is, we need 2 points. Don't care how it has to get done, just that it happens!

 

[THEALLKNOWING*]

Yeo vs Trotz. The former gets so little out of so much, the latter gets so much out of so little. The Preds always play the Wild well at Xcel. For the Wild to win, they need to get at least two goals early, real early. Possibly 3 goals. Have to count on Backstrom or Harding to give up 1-2 bad goals per game, which has been this year's modus operandi.

 

[Henkka]

It looks like both Shea Weber and Ryan Suter can't score without key element Patric Hörnqvist screening the goalie.

 

[Gaps]

So, there's team that's struggling to score combined with a leaky defense and a mediocre goalie. Then there's a team that plays defensively well and has a hot goalie, but the offense is rather unremarkable. The Preds could take this even if they were outshot. I'm not going to make any guesses because I'm always wrong (so I should probably say the Preds will win).

 

[W75]

Wild need to score goals!

11th game, 11th hour.
Rinne is a test. I scheduled earlier that skyisfalling after 12 games (1/4 of a season). So, not yet.. but it's close.

Go Wild Go, now or never.

 

[tyratoku]

Link

Backstrom gets the start. Yeo wants to "give him a chance to respond"

Uuuuugggghhhhhhh

 

[W75]

Ok, I'd give him a chance to rest. I don't know whats happening with the goalies..

 

[Foxlockbox]

Link



Uuuuugggghhhhhhh

Think he is gonna let his ex Kärpät backup win this one?

 

[SwimToTheMoon]

Wow for some reason I figured this game was in Nashville. Guess not!

 

[CG5]

Link



Uuuuugggghhhhhhh

why doesn't Harding get a chance to respond? guy hasn't played since he got yanked against Chicago.

edit: oops guess he played in the Van. game. only game I quit watching after the 1st cause I was pretty sure where it was headed.

 

[Kaptain]

Bring on 4-6-1!

 

[Billy Mays Here*]

Nashville 3-0.

 

[Wild48]

PMB with Konopka and Rupp? Why?

 

[Engebretson]

If we win this game, I see us doing it in either OT or shootout. A comeback win is just what the team needs to pull themselves out of this funk.

 

[Nsjohnson]

PMB with Konopka and Rupp? Why?

Hasn't been happy with PMB's play in the lineup/on PP.

 

[CG5]

PMB with Konopka and Rupp? Why?

lol, what, really?

 

[Granlund 64]

Stats are off in the OP. Has BNTG with 4 goals - 4 assists and 7 points.

Should be 3G 4A - 7P

/nitpicking

 

[llamapalooza]

Nashville is one of those teams that always embarrasses us, home or away. Right now we're pretty prone to those awful games where we push really hard and work our ***** off without scoring for half the game only to make one mistake watch the other guys pot a few quick cheapies and make it look embarrassingly easy. Trotz's system is built around those sorts of lapses that we're already playing into anyway.

I'm not super sad that I won't be able to watch this one.