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  • Game 1 Gamethread: Wild at Stars (8:30 p.m.)

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    Thomas Williams

    By Thomas Williams -

    The games really matter now. After 82 grueling matches and a season where the Minnesota Wild had to deal with injured stars, scoring slumps, and the highs and lows of high expectations, the first round of the playoffs have arrived. Now, they have to face a team that is going to be a substantial test in the Dallas Stars.

    It is star vs. star with Kirill Kaprizov going up against Jason Robertson in this series, as well as two teams reliant on a defense-first mentality, and have had outstanding goaltending. This is less of a playoff round and more of two rams just headbutting each other on a cliff face.

    The Wild might have the upper hand with the blue line depth, but the amount of talent stretched through the 12 Stars forwards might prove to not only push them to a series win here, but all the way if everything goes right.

    But, it's one game at a time and it all starts with Monday's puck drop.

    Projected Wild lineup

    Kirill Kaprizov -- Ryan Hartman -- Mats Zuccarello
    Marcus Johansson -- Frederick Gaudreau -- Matt Boldy
    Gustav Nyquist -- Sam Steel -- Marcus Foligno
    Brandon Duhaime -- Connor Dewar -- Ryan Reaves

    Jake Middleton -- Jared Spurgeon
    Jonas Brodin -- Matt Dumba
    Jon Merrill -- Brock Faber

    Filip Gustavsson
    Marc-Andre Fleury

    Projected Stars lineup

    Jason Robertson -- Roope Hintz -- Joe Pavelski
    Jamie Benn -- Wyatt Johnston -- Evgenii Dadonov
    Mason Marchment -- Max Domi -- Tyler Seguin
    Radek Faksa -- Luke Glendening -- Ty Dellandrea

    Ryan Suter -- Miro Heiskanen
    Esa Lindell -- Jani Hakanpaa
    Thomas Harley -- Colin Miller

    Jake Oettinger
    Scott Wedgewood

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    By Thomas Williams  

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    Imyourhuckleberry
    2 hours ago, B1GKappa97 said:

    working around $12M in dead-space!

    Solid maneuvering to be so competitive with the $12.7436M dead cap this season, which jumps up to $14.7436M for next season and the following season.  That's over 15% of the total cap gone for this season and over 16% the next 2 seasons.

    Imagine how competitive he could make the club in 2025-26, when that dead cap drops down to $1.666M for that season and the following 3.

    Kaprizov will be 28, Eriksson-Ek 29, and Boldy turns 25 around the end of that season. Gaudreau and Brodin would be 32 for that season. Middleton would be 30 if he re-signs. Spurgeon will be 36, and some key players will naturally be gone by then, but Wallstedt and Faber will be 23. Yurov, Ohgren, Khusnutdinov, Bankier, Beckman, Rossi, Spacek, and Lambos may have fought their way onto the roster by then as well.

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