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  • Game 2 Gamethread: Wild at Stars (8:30 p.m.)

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    Thomas Williams

    By Thomas Williams -

    The Minnesota Wild have an incredible opportunity. After everyone predicted the Dallas Stars to walk away with this first-round series as the winner, but if the Wild win tonight it means heading back home up 2-0 on the favorites.

    Game 1 was a doozy and a game that went on for way too long, but the result was fine. If we are asking the team of anything, it is to make this a win and less than 90 full minutes of hockey.

    It is the playoffs, so we never have a clue who is actually playing until warm-ups happen just 30 minutes before puck drop. But, we did get the information that Oskar Sundqvist has healed from his injury and will be in the lineup for Game 2. As well, John Klingberg remains out, so the blue line will most likely stay the same as it was on Monday.

    Projected Wild lineup

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

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

    Filip Gustavsson played 90 minutes of hockey on Monday but head coach Dean Evason said picking Game 2's starter wasn't going to be influenced by that. But, Marc-Andre Fleury has been rumored to be getting the start tonight, so we'll have to see.

    Projected Stars lineup

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

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

    Jake Oettinger
    Scott Wedgewood

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    mnfaninnc
    1 minute ago, UK_Soldier said:

    ??? That doesn't make any f'ing sense. 

    Dallas kind of relaxed and took their foot off the gas, I don't know if they do that if it's closer.

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    UK_Soldier
    Just now, mnfaninnc said:

    Dallas kind of relaxed and took their foot off the gas, I don't know if they do that if it's closer.

    So like the butterfly effect. Got it. I'll go watch the movie. 

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    Pewterschmidt
    3 minutes ago, UK_Soldier said:

    Again...didn't necessarily a problem with MAF starting, but best decision? I didn't and now don't know that's true. You saying Gus would have gotten rocked like this? I don't think so. 

    Who knows.  But chances to go into game two, after stealing game one, and missing our 1C AND 2C, in their barn and steal game two is a million in one

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    UK_Soldier
    3 minutes ago, Pewterschmidt said:

    Who knows.  But chances to go into game two, after stealing game one, and missing our 1C AND 2C, in their barn and steal game two is a million in one

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    Sure, who knows. But not putting your best foot forward in the playoffs regardless of what just happened and whose barn your in isn't the best call IMO...and million to one? Not generally a sports bettor, but I don't think that's quite accurate, unless the Wild were truly playing to lose...

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    Pewterschmidt
    1 minute ago, UK_Soldier said:

    Sure, who knows. But not putting your best foot forward in the playoffs regardless of what just happened and whose barn your in isn't the best call IMO. 

    The bet was that MAF would go full 2010 vintage MAF.  Once again, we lost that bet 

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    Backwoodsbob
    Just now, Backwoodsbob said:

    This might be a good loss if there is one. Should learn a lot and beat em some. If they're gonna take penalties, make them worthwhile!

    Ok, that's 2 penalties, for what benefit though?

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    UK_Soldier
    1 minute ago, Backwoodsbob said:

    This might be a good loss if there is one. Should learn a lot and beat em some. If they're gonna take penalties, make them worthwhile!

    Overall, first period and middle five of the second were fine. The rest...an utter disaster. 

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    mnfaninnc

    Don't forget how much mentoring MAF has done with Gustavsson this season.  He's had a habit of doing that with his backups.  For Gustavsson to watch MAF get hammered and still keep playing through it, this is a lesson for him how to handle it. 

    We're not going to win every game in this series, I don't mind the blowout. We should be pretty salty on Friday

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