GDT: Sat, Nov 12th 2016 | Minnesota Wild @ Philadelphia Flyers | 7:00pm ET | Game #16

[Les Averman]

Minnesota Wild (7-4-1) @ Philadelphia Flyers (6-7-2)

Quick Hits

• Television: CSN-PH
• Radio: 93.3 WMMR
• Season Series (2015-16): 2-0-0
• All Time Record: 12-5-1-1
• Leading Scorers: PHI: Giroux - 16pts | MIN: Staal - 11pts, Suter - 11pts
• Power Play: PHI - 2nd (29.1%) | MIN - 19th (16.2%)
• Penalty Kill: PHI - 26th (77.1%) | MIN - T-5th (88.6%)

FLYERS' PROJECTED LINEUP
Forwards

LW | C | RW
Brayden Schenn| Claude Giroux | Wayne Simmonds
Travis Konecny | Sean Couturier | Jakub Voracek
Michael Raffl | Nick Cousins | Matt Read
Chris VandeVelde | Pierre-Edouard Bellemare | Roman Lyubimov

Defensemen

LD | RD
Michael Del Zotto | Radko Gudas
Brandon Manning | Shayne Gostisbehere
Ivan Provorov | Mark Streit

Goalie

G
Who Cares

Scratches
Dale Weise - RW - Healthy
Nick Schultz - D - Healthy
Andrew MacDonald - D - Out one week, LBI
Boyd Gordon - C - LTIR, UBI



WILD PROJECTED LINEUP
Forwards

LW | C | RW
Nino Niederreiter| Eric Staal | Charlie Coyle
Mikael Granlund | Mikko Koivu | Jason Pominville
Jason Zucker | Erik Haula | Zack Mitchell
Joel Eriksson Ek | Tyler Graovac | Chris Stewart

Defensemen

LD | RD
Ryan Suter | Matthew Dumba
Jonas Brodin | Christian Folin
Mike Reilly | Jared Spurgeon

Goalie

G
Devan Dubnyk

Scratches/Injuries
Zach Parise - LW - Out indefinitely, foot injury
Zac Dalpe - C - Out until mid December, torn MCL in right knee
Christoph Bertschy - Healthy
Nate Prosser - Healthy
Victor Bartley - D - IR, tricep injury
Marco Scandella - D - IR, knee injury

In lieu of a gameday song, we'll have a crash therapy session for the goalies

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[Rebels57]

Minnesota is much better than us right now. Dubnyk has been great. Their D is rock-solid and the "1st year under Boudreau phenomenon" has their offense flying. This is going to be an ugly loss followed by full on panic mode.

 

[boxcar65]

Looks like Manning-Ghost might be back together for this game. I would have stuck with MDZ-Ghost and Manning-Gudas, even though the latter duo had a tough outing against Detroit.

Maybe a Manning vs Chris Stewart scrap in the first five minutes can get some life into the building. Yes, I'm sure Mandog will lose, but at least he will try to do something.

 

[Lord Defect]

Is this still 7pm? Towards the end of last nights game I thought I saw something that said 630pm.

 

[bennysflyers16]

This could be a train wreck game, like a 4-0 beating. Wild you can't afford to give up any softys as they have awesome goalie and great D, get down early and this will over very quick and a very boring game to watch.

Whichever goalie starts, we are giving up at least 1-2 bad ones, so will be tough scoring 3 on Wild

 

[Rebels57]

This could be a train wreck game, like a 4-0 beating. Wild you can't afford to give up any softys as they have awesome goalie and great D, get down early and this will over very quick and a very boring game to watch.

Whichever goalie starts, we are giving up at least 1-2 bad ones, so will be tough scoring 3 on Wild

Yeah this is pretty much exactly what I expect to happen. They are playing good hockey in all three zones lately backed up by strong goaltending. We have a good offense and then a tire fire.

 

[GKJ]

I am going to rage so hard online if Raffl is scratched again

 

[Rebels57]

I am going to rage so hard online if Raffl is scratched again

I'm sure he will be back in...for Lyubimov instead of Lord Vandermort (i'm trying to think of ways to not directly type his name because it makes my hands wants to strangle myself).

 

[tade]

****ing vandevelde

 

[AaronTrieu]

gonna be tough to watch tonight. lol

2 softies...1 shorty against....Flyers lose 5-3.

 

[Rebels57]

gonna be tough to watch tonight. lol

2 softies...1 shorty against....Flyers lose 5-3.

Yeah i'll be skipping this one. It's not fair to my wife to let them ruin our one night of the week that we get to really hang out. I haven't been watching the Saturday night games because they flat out ****ing suck in every one of them and it makes me act like a miserable back of dicks.

 

[boxcar65]

Yeah i'll be skipping this one. It's not fair to my wife to let them ruin our one night of the week that we get to really hang out. I haven't been watching the Saturday night games because they flat out ****ing suck in every one of them and it makes me act like a miserable back of dicks.

So naturally, they will probably win this one 10-0...lol.

 

[Striiker]

This is the type of game they win. Lose to the trash teams and then squeak out a win against a decent team that gives a little hope... which will be dashed in the next game.

 

[Rebels57]

So naturally, they will probably win this one 10-0...lol.

Fine with me. I will DVR and watch it after the wife falls asleep if that happens lol.

My guess is, 5-2 loss.

 

[Domino666]

If either goalies decide to show up and steal a game it would be awesome, I'm giving up on Hak's ability to put the best line up on the ice, I hate VdV and hate the bottom 6, and hate that no one stuck up for the Neck last night, give me my ball back I'm going home

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

Time to give up 5 goals in less than 20 shots.

 

[Nsjohnson]

Haven't seen any Philly games this year, but by the tone of this thread...not playing so well? Wild have been decent-to-good, but lacking consistency. Parise doesn't help matters, being injured.

What is Philly's biggest need at the moment?

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

Haven't seen any Philly games this year, but by the tone of this thread...not playing so well? Wild have been decent-to-good, but lacking consistency. Parise doesn't help matters, being injured.

What is Philly's biggest need at the moment?

We have offense, which is something we didn't start with last year. But basically it's been the opposite of last year. We had really good goaltending last year and the offense was struggling but now we have awful goaltending and a booming offense.

 

[Lord Defect]

Love the blindfold by the way!

 

[SnS]

I'll be at this one.

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

I'll be at this one.

I think you should of added these emoji.

 

[HereNow16]

Is this still 7pm? Towards the end of last nights game I thought I saw something that said 630pm.

It should be 7pm. Towards the end of last night's game they kept saying that the pre-game broadcast starts at 6:30, maybe that's what you heard? But the game should start at 7.

 

[Mkoll]

I'll be at this one.

Yep, me too.
Getting drunk ahead of time.

 

[bennysflyers16]

Raffl back in !

Lube get lost , VDV safe again !!

 

[OzFlyers]

Good job on the GDT thread Les.