GDT: Game 45: Jets @ Wild - 6PM Central / 2AM Finland - FSN

[Bazeek]

Ennis - Staal - Parise
Zucker - Koivu - Granlund
Eriksson-Ek - Coyle - Stewart
Foligno - Cullen - Stewart

Suter - Spurgeon
Brodin - Dumba
Olofsson - Prosser

Dubnyk




Connor - Wheeler - Laine
Perreault - Little - Ehlers
Matthias - Copp - Armia
Roslovic - Hendricks - Dano

Morrissey - Trouba
Kulikov - Myers
Enstrom - Byfuglien

Hellebuyck

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The opponent

A 2-1 loss to the Chicago Blackhawks on Friday at the United Center snapped a three-game winning streak for the Central Division-leading Jets, who got a goal from Patrik Laine and 25 saves from goaltender Connor Hellebuyck.

The game Saturday is the fourth and final meeting between the Wild and Jets; Winnipeg has won each of the first three games this season. Kyle Connor and Blake Wheeler each have two goals and three assists against Minnesota.

Wheeler's 52 points leads the team. Laine's goal Friday gave him 20 in 45 games this season.

The Jets recalled goaltender Michael Hutchinson from Manitoba of the American Hockey League on Friday. Hutchinson is 14-2-4 and leads the AHL with a .942 save percentage. Because Hellebuyck started Friday in Chicago, it's likely either Hutchinson or Steve Mason will earn the nod between the posts Saturday.

After hosting Winnipeg, the Wild welcomes the Vancouver Canucks to Xcel Energy Center on Sunday, then enters its five-day bye week. Minnesota won't skate as a team again until Friday for an evening practice.

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Wild beat Hawks. Hawks beat Jets. Jets beat... hopefully this doesn't work like rock-paper-scissors.

Nino's out, so it'd be a great night for Zucker-Koivu-Granlund to light back up.

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[Dee Oh Cee]

Another tough game but Jets are on the 2nd of a back to back. Need to try and take it to them early. 0-3 against them so far so something has to give.

 

[Wabit]

Should be an interesting game.

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

I hope Stewart doesn't play that much.

 

[2Pair]

I hope Stewart doesn't play that much.

I see it

 

[2Pair]

Pretty sad that Staal's reward for making the All-Star game is to be saddled with those two anchors.

 

[Wabit]

Pretty sad that Staal's reward for making the All-Star game is to be saddled with those two anchors.

It's really more of an anchor pick'em for Staal at this point.

 

[Jugitsu]

What's up with Nino? Healthy scratch or some lingering injury? Didn't get a chance to watch the game against Hawks.

 

[MoeTheHobo]

Btw, How's Parise been? Missed everything Nhl related in the last week

 

[Wabit]

Btw, How's Parise been? Missed everything Nhl related in the last week

Then you've pretty much seen how Parise has been.

 

[MoeTheHobo]

Then you've pretty much seen how Parise has been.

That bad, huh?
Well he isn't like our only true all-star like Mike Modano, that's for sure

 

[2Pair]

That bad, huh?
Well he isn't like our only true all-star like Mike Modano, that's for sure

IMO- his skating has been better than I expected it to be, but I'm not sure if that's good or bad because everything else has looked pretty gross. Hopefully his hands are just really rusty and hopefully that goes away. Right now he looks like Winnik if you were to give Winnik way too much icetime.

 

[Wabit]

That bad, huh?
Well he isn't like our only true all-star like Mike Modano, that's for sure

It's not Heatley's last year bad. At least ZP tries. He's just rusty and his timing is way off.

 

[Maukkis]

Connor-Wheeler-Laine
Perreault-Little-Ehlers
Dano-Copp-Armia
Lemieux-Hendricks-Roslovic

Morrissey-Trouba
Kulikov-Myers
Enstrom-Byfuglien

Hellebuyck
Hutchinson

For those interested.

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

What's up with Nino? Healthy scratch or some lingering injury? Didn't get a chance to watch the game against Hawks.

Injured.

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

Btw, How's Parise been? Missed everything Nhl related in the last week

Skating well but puck skills aren’t there yet.

 

[The Enemy Within]

So the Jets just lost to the Blackhawks and we just had a lucky comeback win against them. Let's see how this goes.

When we play the Jets I always worry about people being hurt for some reason. Go Wild! Get it done!

 

[The Enemy Within]

Fast paced game so far.

 

[HwT]

Granlund!

 

[W75]

Beautiful!

 

[Wabit]

Dang early start. I missed the first 10 mins.

 

[The Enemy Within]

Way to go Granlund! Beautiful deflection!

 

[Digitalbooya]

I’d really love to see Eriksson Ek get one.

 

[The Enemy Within]

5 on 3 incoming! Woohoo. Let's get one!

 

[Digitalbooya]

Didn’t realize that Granny shot hit the post.