Article: Macklin Celebrini Embarrasses Wild in 2-1 Loss

[Thomas Williams]

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[Pewterschmidt]

2nd game in a row with a 0-0-0 stat line for Rossi playing 1C with 97.  This game ended in a one goal loss where it's fair to expect Rossi to step up and make a play.  There were stretches last night I wasn't sure he was in the lineup.  While Rossi is not the problem with this group, these 0's playing 1C are what the non-rossi-apologist's see when this team is sliding sideways and looking for a player to step up.

Hunt is a silver lining in this cloudy season.  Jiri can now be labelled a "project".  Nice work Guerin.

Are we still complaining about Ogz getting an 'opportunity', why is Ben Jones playing? Or are we ready to come to grips with how dire this lineup really is and what the rest of the season is going to look like?

[OldDutchChip]

9 minutes ago, Pewterschmidt said:

2nd game in a row with a 0-0-0 stat line for Rossi playing 1C with 97.  This game ended in a one goal loss where it's fair to expect Rossi to step up and make a play.  There were stretches last night I wasn't sure he was in the lineup.  While Rossi is not the problem with this group, these 0's playing 1C are what the non-rossi-apologist's see when this team is sliding sideways and looking for a player to step up.

Hunt is a silver lining in this cloudy season.  Jiri can now be labelled a "project".  Nice work Guerin.

Are we still complaining about Ogz getting an 'opportunity', why is Ben Jones playing? Or are we ready to come to grips with how dire this lineup really is and what the rest of the season is going to look like?

time to send Jiri to IA, his play is horrendous. skoula was better. barker was better. kuba was better. argh

maybe rotate Harty in for Rossi? One line needs grit and the other playmaking. it could help both lines. someone besides Johy and Boldy needs to score....

 

[Citizen Strife]

If the team gets 2-4 points from Anaheim or Vegas, no one's going to remember this.  I'm encouraged by the team not letting in the 3, 4, 5 goals like they seemingly did EVERY game.  That gets points more often than not, because this team is not going to run and gun.  Keep other teams to 2-3, they can win those.

Edited 1 hour ago by Citizen Strife

[Imyourhuckleberry]

6 minutes ago, Citizen Strife said:

I'm encouraged by the team not letting in the 3, 4, 5 goals like they seemingly did EVERY game.  That gets points more often than not, because this team is not going to run and gun.  Keep other teams to 2-3, they can win those.

It will certainly help if the Wild can score more than 1 goal. I could only watch the NHL.com highlights. It looked there like the Wild were very close to adding at least 1 more, but that Askarov was on top of his game.

Buium hit the pipe. Kaprizov had a shot from the middle between the dots and Askaroz was able to get a pad on it. Kaprizov often gets that elevated more to hit the top half of the goal, but not quite high enough on that one.

The Wild only allowing 1 goal in regulation is certainly a much better result than the 5 allowed on 10/26 in regulation, along with the OT goal against.

[Will D. Ness]

55 minutes ago, OldDutchChip said:

skoula was better

Ouch.  

I think it's clear that our prospect pool isn't what it has been hyped up to be.  Jiricek has a long way to go.  He isn't a lost cause... same with Ogz... but neither are going to become NHL game changers soon if ever.  Zeev has massive upside but he needs a season or two as well.

Silver lining for me is Yurov.  He might be better than Rossi by the end of the season.  Wally looking good too. 

[Pewterschmidt]

24 minutes ago, Will D. Ness said:

Silver lining for me is Yurov.  He might be better than Rossi by the end of the season.

Great point. while yurov has been pedestrian he’s not looking out of place either.  He’s proven in khl time that he got the offense in him.  This season could look very different in rear view mirror if yurov is consistently scoring in second half.