GDT: Minnesota Wild @ Edmonton Oilers | 8:30PM CST | FSN, FSWI

[Fel 96]

Wild's lineup update for tonight's game at Edmonton

 

[Fel 96]

It's kinda sad I'm gonna miss the first period.

Going to see a movie...

 

[tyratoku]

It's kinda sad I'm gonna miss the first period.

Going to see a movie...

Which one?

And will update the Kuemper/Backstrom stuff in OP. Give me a minute.

 

[Wildfan10*]

Why the fack is Granlund still on the 4th line?!

 

[GopherState]

It's kinda sad I'm gonna miss the first period.

Going to see a movie...

Date?

Why the fack is Granlund still on the 4th line?!

Because FBJ must suffer for our sins of pride. We thought we were a higher-scoring team during the early part of the season and because of that, he is playing on the fourth line.

 

[W75]

No injuries please. No dirty plays. But I wouldn't mind some Kaptain Koivu-like feedback (against Canucks after Ohlund incident 2007-2008)

 

[Shanahanigans]

How has Gilbert been for you guys?

Schultz has been an okay 2nd pairing guy for us, I guess.

 

[W75]

How has Gilbert been for you guys?

Schultz has been an okay 2nd pairing guy for us, I guess.

Better this year, much better. Very ok 2nd pairing guy for us. Win-win?

 

[Avder]

Ugh, Backstrom starting?

Well that's the game folks.

Why the fack is Granlund still on the 4th line?!

Because we like to waste potential on the 4th line rather than send it down to Houston to develop. Just like we did with Professor James Sheppard.

 

[jedisports]

What bothers me is the lack of stability on the lines as a whole. How are the players expected to develop good chemistry when Yeo is tweaking the lines every two seconds? Also, Suter and Brodin should never be split up and he even temporarily went there too.

 

[Billy Mays Here*]

Ugh, Backstrom starting?

Well that's the game folks.

What? Backstrom has been great against the Oil in case you didn't know.

 

[Generic User]

Yeah. Butch, Backstrom, Brodziak and Heatley all tend to show up against the Snake Oilers.

 

[Psychoil]

Better this year, much better. Very ok 2nd pairing guy for us. Win-win?

i'd say its win-win. While Schultz isn't as offensive as Gilbert, he's like 1 of 23 players on our team who plays with poise and smarts lol. As you can tell, we are probably gonna need that tonight as Parise and Suter will be drilling our faces into the ground

 

[Randy BoBandy]

I'm going to go with a Wild victory of course given our farm team can beat their NHL team. I'm thinkin we score a few goals tonight too!

5-3 Wild win with goals from:
Seto
Parise
Heatley
Bouchard
Suter

Eberle
Hartikinen
J.Schultz

 

[jedisports]

i'd say its win-win. While Schultz isn't as offensive as Gilbert, he's like 1 of 23 players on our team who plays with poise and smarts lol.

lol I love Schultz, both on and off the ice. He's a great guy.

 

[AKL]

I guess I'll make a prediction..

Wild win 3-2, goals from:

Parise
Brodin
Mitchell

Yakupov
Gagner

 

[Minnesota]

Zuckerzuckerzucker.

 

[OpRedDawn*]

Hopefully Zucker gets some solid PP time.

 

[MuckOG]

From NHL Twitter:

9:30 ET: Low-scoring @mnwild & @EdmontonOilers meet for the 1st time this season tonight.

Lovely.......


Prediction:

Wild use the above tweet as bulletin board material and put up a 5 spot on the Oil. Win 5-2

Goals:

Koivu (2)
Gilbert
Zucker
Suter

 

[WildisLaw]

Win or fire sale

Going to be a fun game to watch!

Wild 5-3

Let's go boys!

 

[Minnesota]

Even the NHL acknowledges we're low-scoring? Movin' on up!

 

[Randy BoBandy]

That is one heck of a gif

 

[Kaptain]

I'm predicting 2-1 Oilers here.
C'mon, Wild, win on the road? Not seeing it.

 

[Jaykay]

Wild win 4-2

 

[Nsjohnson]

Wild win 4-2, goals from

Gilbert
Brodziak
Heatley
Parise