Minnesota Wild General Discussion XVI

[AKL]

That PP2 is in desperate need of a shooter, would likely be Dumba and I might be inclined to lean Hartman (I don’t really know Gaudreau’s game at all) because he is a righty with a decent shooting inclination.

We don't have any more shooters left. They're all on the first unit.

I really want to etch Dumba's name in stone on the PP unit, specifically the top unit, but he got the shaft last year in that regard, so I'm not even going to pretend like I think they'll do the right thing this year.

As far as changes to that unit, I could see Foligno shifted in for Greenway, and Hartman shifted in for Gaudreau, but I think the major players on that line (Rossi, Zuccarello) are going to be expected to be the shooters. Dumba too if he gets there. Greenway/Foligno are there to clean up around the net and screen the goalie, Gaudreau/Hartman are there to exist while simultaneously not f***ing anything up.

 

[Wasted Talent]

Not expecting too much, but it's good that it's a focus point. Being outside top 15 in PP would be tough.

Last season being 24th with 17,6% was not cool.

Last season's PP percentage was a bit of an oddity, as they went from historically bad to unsustainably good. The comically bad first half ended up weighing more for the season total, dragging it below league average.

 

[Webster]

This image will show up a lot...when they become the most lethal duo in the league

 

[Wasted Talent]

Interesting how Greenway ended up on the B-roster with the prospects, 4th liners and AHLers.

 

[57special]

Interesting how Greenway ended up on the B-roster with the prospects, 4th liners and AHLers.

Shot across the bow.

 

[Obvious Fabertism]

Interesting how Greenway ended up on the B-roster with the prospects, 4th liners and AHLers.

Aren’t you required to have a certain amount of NHLers on the roster?

 

[AKL]

Interesting how Greenway ended up on the B-roster with the prospects, 4th liners and AHLers.

Greenway-Rossi-Boldy
Beckman-Rask-Bjugstad
Giroux-Sturm-Bitten
Cramarossa-Turgeon-Novak

Benn-Addison
Lambos-Mermis
O'Rourke-Hunt

I don't know? Do they know they only have 1 RHD in the lineup out of 7 total?

 

[AKL]

Greenway-Rossi-Boldy
Beckman-Rask-Bjugstad
Giroux-Sturm-Bitten
Cramarossa-Turgeon-Novak

Benn-Addison
Lambos-Mermis
O'Rourke-Hunt

I don't know? Do they know they only have 1 RHD in the lineup out of 7 total?

I wasn't that far off for the offense. Just swapped Sturm and Beckman.

I'm a little surprised Addison is the one not drawing in. He's the only one with a chance of making the team, so I would have thought they'd want to see more of him.

 

[DeagleJenkins]

I wasn't that far off for the offense. Just swapped Sturm and Beckman.

I'm a little surprised Addison is the one not drawing in. He's the only one with a chance of making the team, so I would have thought they'd want to see more of him.

He probably gets in so they wanna see the rest vs other ahlers early

 

[AKL]

I don't know if we do GDT's for pre-season games, but the Blues lineup tonight looks like it's going to be more NHLers than we have

Forwards
Saad - Thomas - Tarasenko
Kostin - Barbashev - Frolik
Neighbours - Bozak - Neal
Clifford - Joshua - Toropchenko
Defense
Walman - Parayko
Perunovich - Bortuzzo
Galloway - Santini
Goalies
Husso
Lindgren

It's going to be a really tough test for all the prospects

 

[AKL]

NHL.com released a fantasy hockey point projection list a couple of days ago

For the Wild:
Kaprizov- 80
Fiala- 62
Zuccarello- 52
Rossi- 43
Eriksson Ek- 39
Greenway- 35

 

[TaLoN]

I don't know if we do GDT's for pre-season games, but the Blues lineup tonight looks like it's going to be more NHLers than we have



It's going to be a really tough test for all the prospects

We do, feel free to start one and I'll pin it.

 

[DeagleJenkins]

NHL.com released a fantasy hockey point projection list a couple of days ago

For the Wild:
Kaprizov- 80
Fiala- 62
Zuccarello- 52
Rossi- 43
Eriksson Ek- 39
Greenway- 35

No Boldy?

 

[AKL]

No Boldy?

Yeah they didn't include him, that was a little weird to me too

 

[57special]

Aren’t you required to have a certain amount of NHLers on the roster?

yeah, 8 players with a minimum of 30 gp

 

[Sad People]

Will tonights game be on tv anywhere does anyone know?

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

Will tonights game be on tv anywhere does anyone know?

It will not.

 

[Obvious Fabertism]

Will tonights game be on tv anywhere does anyone know?

St. Louis will have it on tv but nothing here.

 

[Sad People]

St. Louis will have it on tv but nothing here.

Thank you thank you

 

[pfunk]

Will tonights game be on tv anywhere does anyone know?

The Blues website shows there will be a stream on the Bally app. Not sure if that will work for us in MN or not.

 

[DeagleJenkins]

Yeah they didn't include him, that was a little weird to me too

He’s more of a sure thing than Rossi

 

[P10p]

Wish there was video for this game....

 

[123TripleDoge]

so we'd basically need someone from the STL market to stream it, ugh

 

[Wasted Talent]

I guess the best we can hope for is some game highlights afterwards

 

[123TripleDoge]

hockey on the radio sucks too, at least football has a general flow you can follow and know the context