Article: How Concerning Is It That the Wild Gave Up 7 Goals To San Jose?

[Justin Hein]

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[greg]

Wow.  What a detailed article.  Well thought out and researched.  All I can say is the defense was bad and Fleury was worse.  But that's not backed up by stats, just by my eyes.  Sometimes the eye test worked.  At least the Wild won even though it was very sloppy.

[RedLake]

Sign Buuim tonight and get his ass on a plane to Calgary.

[Enforceror]

5 minutes ago, RedLake said:

Sign Buuim tonight and get his ass on a plane to Calgary.

Dang, Buium just took a bad hit. Looks like it hurt his lower leg. Hope he's not injured. Denver not looking too hot.

Buium cant have MN injury curse yet....right?

[Enforceror]

Phew, Buium back on the ice.

[RedLake]

11 minutes ago, Enforceror said:

Dang, Buium just took a bad hit. Looks like it hurt his lower leg. Hope he's not injured. Denver not looking too hot.

Buium cant have MN injury curse yet....right?

Buuim is good. Wild waiting in the locker room with a contract.

[RedLake]

Buuim created that game tying goal! Fuck this kid is the real deal.

[Sam]

6 minutes ago, RedLake said:

Buuim created that game tying goal! Fuck this kid is the real deal.

Created by Buium, finished by Lorenz.

Never mind I think they gave it to someone else.

Edited Thursday at 11:41 PM by Sam

[RedLake]

Buuim sķip 2 OT Merril needs a break.

[mnfaninnc]

I don't think we should be worried at all about giving up 7 to San Jose, and this is not sarcastic. The most important accomplishment of last night's game was getting 2 points. The second most important accomplishment was getting Ek and Kaprizov going. All of those boxes were checked.

San Jose has some exciting and fast forwards, perhaps we underestimated that. Maybe the defense was a bit loose, but I just think Fleury had an off night. He gets the win, but many of those goals are goals he should have saved. The funny thing is, there were 2 or 3 great chances that he stopped, which I would have categorized as unexpected saves, so that makes the stat line look even worse!

I said this on another thread, but looking at the look on his kids' faces, almost in tears, told me pretty much all I needed to know, retirement is here. We escaped with a win, but also had a game where we outscored our problems. There have not been many of those in 2025. I actually think that part may have been more important. 

I'd also like to point out that I thought Heinzy called a pretty good game. His lines were good, and he got good matchups. Now we've got to get back to the structure that has gotten us this far. The Wall is supposed to be back in action this week after not having played since March 15th. I 2nd RedLake's idea that we might want him to back up Goose come playoffs, though, I think in Vancouver, Fleury likely puts on a show. He might want to bring his family along for the road trip!

[bisopher]

14 minutes ago, RedLake said:

Buuim sķip 2 OT Merril needs a break.

He didn't skip it, but since WMU scored 26 seconds in it really doesn't matter.

 

Can we / do we see him in Calgary? I'm thinking Vancouver at the earliest, let him attend (and possibly win) the Hobey Baker tomorrow night.

[SkolWild73]

6 minutes ago, bisopher said:

He didn't skip it, but since WMU scored 26 seconds in it really doesn't matter.

 

Can we / do we see him in Calgary? I'm thinking Vancouver at the earliest, let him attend (and possibly win) the Hobey Baker tomorrow night.

Hopefully we win tomorrow and have our seeding wrapped up before the last game at home and he gets a shot in that game to see what he can do.

[mnfaninnc]

Is it possible that we could see Buium and Yurov THIS season???

Still no word on contract termination for Yurov, and no word on a contract for Buium. I guess he should at least be able to take a shower first!

[Sam]

29 minutes ago, mnfaninnc said:

Is it possible that we could see Buium and Yurov THIS season???

Still no word on contract termination for Yurov, and no word on a contract for Buium. I guess he should at least be able to take a shower first!

Apparently you aren’t as “informed” as Red. He must have some insider news source.

[FredJohnson]

DOOM! (Sarc)

[RedLake]

Yurov will be here for Game 1 against Vegas. Buuim will be in Calgary tomorrow with his new team.

[goaliemon]

9 hours ago, RedLake said:

Yurov will be here for Game 1 against Vegas. Buuim will be in Calgary tomorrow with his new team.

Doubt Yurov will be here for this years playoffs.  Per Russo and Smith from The Athletic on April 7th.

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Now that Metallurg Magnitogorsk has been eliminated from the KHL playoffs, the Wild will try to sign 2022 first-round pick Danila Yurov to his entry-level contract starting next season. Yurov’s KHL contract goes through May 31, but the Wild don’t have the cap space to sign him before the NHL regular season ends and likely won’t attempt to sign him for the playoffs in part because they’d have to get him out of his KHL contract and because he rushed back to his team’s lineup from recent ankle surgery.

Stop counting on Yurov to show up for the Playoffs this year.  They do go on to say this though.

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The Wild remain confident that they’ll be able to sign Yurov for next season. One reason he re-signed for only one year in the KHL is that he wanted the flexibility to get his NHL career started if he felt he was ready.

 

[Up North Guy]

12 hours ago, mnfaninnc said:

The Wall is supposed to be back in action this week after not having played since March 15th. I 2nd RedLake's idea that we might want him to back up Goose come playoffs, though, I think in Vancouver, Fleury likely puts on a show. He might want to bring his family along for the road trip!

Wally played Wednesday night and gave up five. I am truly starting to worry about him. This is a lost season for him. Haj is playing better.

[mnfaninnc]

Looked again for new contracts signed this morning. Crickets. Perhaps hockey players sleep in in the mornings?

Would there be room for Danila Yurov in the playoffs this season? I can appreciate Goaliemon's take, but let's face facts, after signing fellow Russian Yakov Trenin, the Wild could not pay performance bonuses in Yurov's contract so he resigned for another year in the K. Let's not try to paint any different picture than that. And, not looking at Trenin's year, I think this was a big mistake. 

I'm pretty sure that Shooter already knew what Yurov wanted in his contract and asking for performance bonuses should have been factored in. While I can appreciate wanting to be tougher to play against, Yurov is the kind of player the Wild really needed in the lineup. Sure, there's uncertainty that he's never played in the N before, but I suspect he does better than OgZ right away. 

As for now, what do his medicals look like? I still would think you'd want to sign him, but maybe not burn an ELC year. Getting him through the visa process and acclimated here (I assume that fellow Russian Kirill Kaprizov would be opening his home for the guy), learn his way around and find a place to live. All of those things are important on settling down a lower 20s year old so that he can be comfortable in his surroundings. 

In contrast, Montreal worked with SKA St. Petersburg to get the early release of Demidov, and he's already out of Russia and on his way via Turkey. How did Montreal get Demidov so quickly? I would think that Yurov would have been attractive for the Wild, though they have no cap space to speak of right now. Wouldn't putting a guy like Merrill on waivers to head to Iowa be worth Buium? Or, do you take a chance sending Chisholm down? Maybe we just messed up the cap so bad this year that we can't do anything and should just be happy we've got Kap and Ek back?

[mnfaninnc]

This doesn't sound so good to me

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Joe Smith

 

@JoeSmithNHL

 

 

Zeev Buium’s thoughts on his future. “It’s tough. We just lost a big game. I hate losing. .. For now I’m going to spend time with my teammates, enjoy these days with them and we’ll see what happens.” #mnwild

 

[Justin Hein]

13 hours ago, mnfaninnc said:

I'd also like to point out that I thought Heinzy called a pretty good game. 

[M_Nels]

23 minutes ago, mnfaninnc said:

This doesn't sound so good to me

 

Doesn't sound like he'll be zooming to Canada, expect he'll join the team after they get back from the 2 day trip but if they'll burn a year for potentially 1 game (assuming Wild clinch a spot and rest starters) remains to be seen.

Wild just need to be worried about taking care of business tonight & tomorrow and lock up a spot then decide the Zeev situation later.

[MNCountryLife]

Sure would like to see Zeev sign and play.  The kid has crazy good skill and fast.  He could be a great addition heading into the playoffs.  

[mnfaninnc]

11 minutes ago, M_Nels said:

Doesn't sound like he'll be zooming to Canada, expect he'll join the team after they get back from the 2 day trip but if they'll burn a year for potentially 1 game (assuming Wild clinch a spot and rest starters) remains to be seen.

Wild just need to be worried about taking care of business tonight & tomorrow and lock up a spot then decide the Zeev situation later.

And, herein lies the business aspect of the game. Previously, Guerin has not worried about burning ELC years on contracts. However, as more of our guys come in, does this make the value of a full year of ELC contracts more of a priority? There is a 2nd dynamic here, have Merrill and Chisholm and to some extent Bogosian, earned the right to play in the playoffs? 

From what I saw from San Jose, I would say that Merrill and Bogosian are severely limited in their speed, and would worry that they might not be able to keep up. More so Merrill than Bogosian. I think if we draw Vegas in the 1st round, Merrill and Bogosian likely keep up, but I'm not so sure about Winnipeg. If we managed a 2nd round, McDavid and Draisaitl would scare me with that pair, and I think Dallas just simply burns them (as well as Colorado). 

[Imyourhuckleberry]

21 minutes ago, M_Nels said:

Doesn't sound like he'll be zooming to Canada, expect he'll join the team after they get back from the 2 day trip but if they'll burn a year for potentially 1 game (assuming Wild clinch a spot and rest starters) remains to be seen.

Wild just need to be worried about taking care of business tonight & tomorrow and lock up a spot then decide the Zeev situation later.

I believe that was always the plan. I don't think you throw him into a game on a travel day(zero practices) where he's never been around the team before and you are trying to lock up a playoff spot.

He also got banged up in the game and his ankle didn't seem to be 100% even though he played through it. Probably best to get a couple days off.