GDT: G:4 Whalers @ North Stars (80's night) 5pm CT/1am Suomi (FSN+)

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melinko

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Parise killed us in that OT.
Turned the puck over twice trying to drag it through the defender along the boards. That play doesn't exist in 3on3.
 
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Wabit

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What was Parise doing there? Not really moving and holding the puck, get it striped for a rush the other way, so go for a line change?
 

Wabit

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Dub makes that save a the Canes end up with another PP (too many men).
 

Binister

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Wild was just bad in this game. Way too many penalties while Duby played Vezina level goaltending. Maybe some of the penalties weren't called right but still that many GA and PIM isn't a recipe for success. Also Wild let the game get tied kinda easily.

And uh... Aho kinda dominated us.
 

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The officiating was horrendous. Sure the Canes 'dominated' us in shot charts but most of the time the D and Dubnyk were fine. The clean breakouts, or rather the lack there of was a big concern for the Wild but they hang in there. Maybe the reffs didn't cost us the game, but they sure tried their hardest. Sure, a lot of the calls were right ones but there were more than few really weird ones: Coyle's hook on Martinook where two players tied each other up in front of the net that happens a thousand times a game. Zucker's double minor where J. Staal pretty much dropped his stick AFTER he gave a nut shot to Zucker. Our Staal's phantom trip call at the end of the third period that resulted in Canes tying the game. Not to mention a few non calls for an example the one holding/roughing where the Canes player headlocked a Wild player and pulled him down to the ice just before Staal's penalty at the end of the third, or when Seeler was called for interference but J. Staal a few feet away, who ran over his guy in same manner gets the benefit of a doubt.

Sure, we'll never know whether Hurricanes would've tied the game anyway or not without the help from the reffs, but as a hockey fan and a Wild fan, I can't stand an end to a game like that. Did we deserve a win? Probably not. The Wild couldn't figure out a way to get past the neutral zone with possession. And when they did occasionally, they usually still ended up dumping the puck and losing possession. Dubnyk was stellar and once again really gave his team a chance to win but rest of the team failed to deliver.
 
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- refs were bad, and one - sided. I hate whining about refs but this was a bad one.

- still doesn't excuse the team's performance, which was mediocre at best. As an said earlier, I don't know if they aren't trying, or they just aren't very good. More on the news at 11.

- at least Parise looks like he is healthy.

- at this point, Zucker looks to be the heart and soul of this team.

- Doobs has been spectacular, and we can't win even then!
 

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Carolina completely carried the play but they were also kinda just throwing a lot of pucks to the net. Dubnyk made probably close to a dozen simple glove saves with not much effort required. It was bad, but not as bad as the numbers might suggest. It did look like Carolina had an extra player on the ice all the time though, and that's not a joke regarding the absurd amount of penalties. They were just all over the Wild almost the whole game.

This team is old and slow and it's struggling against fast teams but they can play faster and with that they can use some of their other advantages. As the soviets used to say, puck has no lungs. But it's not happening right now.

Suter has improved after the first 2 games but seems like he still needs more of that magic mushroom therapy. He's been a huge part of successful breakout but right now can't get into those lanes due to the lack of push. Defensively seems to get caught standing around too much and gets turnstiled unusually often too (although that OT play against Chicago was vintage Suter).

Nashville is better but a slower team so we'll see how they do against that.
 
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DANOZ28

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refs were a joke , doobs was sensational or we would have been blownout 8-2. major redflag 3 outta 4 games less than 13 shots after 2 periods. we look older & slower. we need to add speed for creativity asap.
 
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