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  • Gamethread: Wild at Blackhawks (8:00 p.m.)

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    Thomas Williams

    By Thomas Williams -

    The young guys are here in Chicago.

    They're here! Since the Minnesota Wild are facing the lowly Chicago Blackhawks and are pretty locked in the standings, they kept Kirill Kaprizov, Mats Zuccarello, Jonas Brodin, and Jared Spurgeon in Minnesota for the one-game road trip to Illinois. But! This means that recently recalled Marco Rossi and Nic Petan get to make their impressions against a bad team and hometown Brock Faber gets to make his NHL debut.

    It isn't the most interesting game when it comes to the context of the season, but we will be keeping an eye on all the young guys and debutant.

    Projected Wild lineup

    Marcus Johansson -- Frederick Gaudreau -- Matt Boldy
    Nic Petan -- Marco Rossi -- Ryan Hartman
    Gustav Nyquist -- Sam Steel -- Marcus Foligno
    Brandon Duhaime -- Connor Dewar -- Ryan Reaves

    Jake Middleton -- Calen Addison
    Alex Goligoski -- Brock Faber
    Jon Merrill -- John Klingberg

    Filip Gustavsson
    Marc-Andre Fleury

    Projected Blackhawks lineup

    Tyler Johnson -- Jonathan Toews -- Jason Dickinson
    Anders Bjork -- Andreas Athanasiou -- Buddy Robinson
    Boris Katchouk -- Jujhar Khaira -- Joey Anderson
    Austin Wagner -- MacKenzie Entwistle -- Reese Johnson

    Caleb Jones -- Seth Jones
    Wyatt Kaiser -- Connor Murphy
    Andreas Englund -- Nikita Zaitsev

    Alex Stalock
    Petr Mrazek

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    Pewterschmidt
    4 minutes ago, UK_Soldier said:

    Russo just posted that the line might set a negative Corsi record. I could believe it. 

    And it’s against a bad Chi team that sent its stud youngsters to AHL for playoffs

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    Up North Guy
    1 minute ago, mnfaninnc said:

    I thought Rossi would be better, not as passive.  I disagree with him being invisible, he's been visibly poor.  Too much gliding, to much soft play, no battle, no desire. Rossi still doesn't take the body.  He's got to be much, much more assertive.  

    Frankly he just looks a little lost out there. He may be one of those guys that can't just be dropped into a lineup. He may need to be around and get acclimated first. He better learn about that.

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    mnfaninnc
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    Frankly he just looks a little lost out there. He may be one of those guys that can't just be dropped into a lineup. He may need to be around and get acclimated first. He better learn about that.

    An Ek-Lundell center duo looks pretty good in hindsight.

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    UK_Soldier
    Just now, jgodwin17 said:

    If anything this game is an advertisement for Gus and why we need to resign him.

    Pretty embarrassing having the game taken to us by Chicago.

    I truly hope this is setting him up to get game 1 as was speculated today and not Dean-O getting ready to pull a fast one by throwing Gus out behind the "team" they put on the ice tonight. 

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    If anything this game is an advertisement for Gus and why we need to resign him.

    why wouldn't they?  He has pretty much no leverage at all.  He won't be very expensive either. If we can sign him for somewhere in the $1.5m X 2 area, I'd be pretty happy.

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    jgodwin17
    Just now, mnfaninnc said:

    An Ek-Lundell center duo looks pretty good in hindsight.

    Truth, though I think Rossi might just take a bit longer adapting the the NHL than anticipated.

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    jgodwin17
    Just now, Backwoodsbob said:

    Faber is looking pretty darn good for being his 1st NHL game.

    Happy to hear it! Wish I could be watching.

    His performance might just be signing Addison's trade papers.

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    jgodwin17
    2 minutes ago, UK_Soldier said:

    I truly hope this is setting him up to get game 1 as was speculated today and not Dean-O getting ready to pull a fast one by throwing Gus out behind the "team" they put on the ice tonight. 

    If Dean plays Flower in the playoffs over Gus, I will lose my sh*t.

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    Truth, though I think Rossi might just take a bit longer adapting the the NHL than anticipated.

    I sure hope so, that lost year was actually worse than 0, he had to rebuild a lot of endurance.  His jr. tape did not look like he does now, he was motoring then.  

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    Backwoodsbob
    1 minute ago, jgodwin17 said:

    Happy to hear it! Wish I could be watching.

    His performance might just be signing Addison's trade papers.

    The way Addy is getting destroyed, it sure looks that way.

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    Happy to hear it! Wish I could be watching.

    His performance might just be signing Addison's trade papers.

    I don't think it will be that fast unless we resign Dumba or Klingberg.  We don't have many RHS defender options in the organization, and Spacek is too far away....though the way he's played when I've seen him, he'd be an immediate upgrade from Addison.

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    mnfaninnc

    On the 2nd goal, Addison looks like he plays it pretty well, however, does anyone else think that Spurgeon figures out a way to break that up?  Surely, Jimmy would have!

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    jgodwin17
    1 minute ago, mnfaninnc said:

    I don't think it will be that fast unless we resign Dumba or Klingberg.  We don't have many RHS defender options in the organization, and Spacek is too far away....though the way he's played when I've seen him, he'd be an immediate upgrade from Addison.

    I have a feeling Dumba gets resigned on a discount. I think he likes the organization and the cities (and I think the organization and cities like him too), and I don't think he would be able to get close to 6M as a free agent.

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    Backwoodsbob
    4 minutes ago, mnfaninnc said:

    I don't think it will be that fast unless we resign Dumba or Klingberg.  We don't have many RHS defender options in the organization, and Spacek is too far away....though the way he's played when I've seen him, he'd be an immediate upgrade from Addison.

    We also have the off season looks at free agents.

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    UK_Soldier
    1 minute ago, mnfaninnc said:

    Why wouldn't you flip Klingberg playing with Middleton and Addison being banished to Merrill's pair?

    Horse a piece IMO. I really thought Klinger would flip a switch and be a bit better...but he hasn't. 

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