GDT: 10/8/2013 - Minnesota Wild vs Nashville Predators - 7:00 PM - FS-N, FS-WI

[tomgilbertfan]

Granlund is getting a goal tonight.
4th line is going to get a goal too.

 

[Hall of Faber]

Just realized this is a divisional game. Feels weird.

 

[Jaykay]

4-2 Wild win

Goals from Heatley, Parise, Brodz, and Zucker

 

[tyratoku]

Looks like Backstrom is getting the start again? Russo's tweets can certainly be confusing sometimes.

Yeo really likes to ride starting goalies, huh?

 

[mnwildgophers]

Looks like Backstrom is getting the start again? Russo's tweets can certainly be confusing sometimes.

Yeo really likes to ride starting goalies, huh?

This game just felt like a game to get Harding in there.

 

[llamapalooza]

Worried about this one. No Coyle, Granlund at Center, Scandella in, and Yeo inexplicably riding Backstrom. Plus Nashville, like Anaheim, is just one one of those teams that always seems to give us fits no matter how weak the lineup may be.

 

[rynryn]

Absolutely inexplicable to have Scandella in the line-up given not only his last game, but his pre-season.

Will be interested in seeing the "second line" usage in this game. Have a feeling it will be more along the lines of the 4th option off the bench.

The scandella thing...it's obviously because he's already shaky mentally and they still want to get something out of him. Not a good sign, but he has another game like his first two and they're going to have to sit him. Stoner can handle it. Prosser just looks stoked to be in a game every once in a while. Scandella looks fragile.

 

[Lapa]

Why are people so upset that Bäckström is starting?

I mean he has been pretty good so far, imo.

 

[rynryn]

the Backs/Hards story could have Harding health factors in it...not serious ones but enough to say "okay, we'll go with backs." Harding is a team first kind of guy even though he is hugely competitive--he'd be the kind to honestly say "I'm feeling 85%." Not saying that's the case, but they wouldn't publicize it if it were and I can't help but speculate.

edit: and like Lapa--I don't see the big deal. It's not like Backstrom has been put through the ringer yet.

 

[OpRedDawn*]

just realized.... sexy jersey night for us!

 

[Hall of Faber]

I think Backs is starting tonight because it's the first of 5 games in eight nights. Hards will get two of those games.

 

[rynryn]

probably. pick and choose. since when is starting a goalie three games in a row "riding" them?

 

[MuckOG]

@Russostrib
Ryan Suter was booed by his #mnwild teammates the first time touched the puck in skate....just to get him ready for tonight #mnwild

Why are people so upset that Bäckström is starting?

I mean he has been pretty good so far, imo.

I disagree. He was horrid in the shootout against LA, and he HAS to make that save at the end of OT against Anaheim.

It just drives me nuts that Backs struggles so much against the breakaways.

 

[MNWILDFAN001]

Coyle injured, some other players not feeling well. Might be 0-3 after tonight.

 

[MuckOG]

Coyle injured, some other players not feeling well. Might be 0-3 after tonight.

That's impossible.

 

[Hall of Faber]

That's impossible.

I think he was referring to Nashville.

 

[GopherState]

The "Nope" picture makes me laugh every time.

Going to Uncle Vanya at the Guthrie tonight, hope I miss the first Wild win.

Went and saw it last weekend. Enjoy!

just realized.... sexy jersey night for us!

 

[Lapa]

I disagree. He was horrid in the shootout against LA, and he HAS to make that save at the end of OT against Anaheim.

It just drives me nuts that Backs struggles so much against the breakaways.

I don't blame him for the Anaheim loss one bit.. As for the LA shootout.. He sucks at shootouts. That isn't exactly news. However, I don't think sucking at shootouts is enough to bench him.

 

[MuckOG]

I don't blame him for the Anaheim loss one bit.. As for the LA shootout.. He sucks at shootouts. That isn't exactly news. However, I don't think sucking at shootouts is enough to bench him.

How can you not say that Backstrom NEEDS to make that save at the end of OT?? Yes, the defense screwed up, but Backstrom can't let that puck go by him. Once in a while we need him to sprawl, flop, poke check, do what ever it takes.

 

[Wild Caniac]

We are winning this game. Plain and simple.

 

[Lapa]

How can you not say that Backstrom NEEDS to make that save at the end of OT?? Yes, the defense screwed up, but Backstrom can't let that puck go by him. Once in a while we need him to sprawl, flop, poke check, do what ever it takes.

What I mean is defense left him alone in that, so I don't blame Bäckström - and to be honest, I thought the goal was pretty nice, too. Good stickhandling.

Of course I would have wanted him to make that save, but you can't always win.

 

[MuckOG]

What I mean is defense left him alone in that, so I don't blame Bäckström - and to be honest, I thought the goal was pretty nice, too. Good stickhandling.

Of course I would have wanted him to make that save, but you can't always win.

That's going to happen, but sometimes the goalie needs to bail out the team. Especially with under 5 seconds to go. A great goalie can do that, Backstrom is not a great goalie. He's decent, but he is one of the big question marks facing this team if they want to advance to the post season.

 

[Victorious Secret]

This is going to be a defensive battle. 6-5 Predators.

 

[Gaps]

This game just felt like a game to get Harding in there.

I would have let him have the start too, but who knows what the real reason behind this is. If Bäckström keeps on playing every game after tonight as well, then I will start worrying.

 

[rynryn]

That's going to happen, but sometimes the goalie needs to bail out the team. Especially with under 5 seconds to go. A great goalie can do that, Backstrom is not a great goalie. He's decent, but he is one of the big question marks facing this team if they want to advance to the post season.

yeah lets just conveniently ignore the times he does actually bail out the D. like every single Scandella shift.