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  • Gamethread: Wild at Sabres (7:00 p.m.)

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    Thomas Williams

    By Thomas Williams -

    Our nightmare is over! Jared Spurgeon is back on the ice and in the lineup for our Minnesota Wild!

    The captain is back on the road to face the Buffalo Sabres, in a fairly interesting game in a vacuum. The Wild are essentially back to full health, Zach Bogosian makes his second appearance for the team in a hopefully more even game, another night of Marco Rossi as the top center, and we get to see a couple familiar faces.

    Jordan Greenway and Tyson Jost (remember when he was on the team?) will be hosting their old teammates in a battle between two middling clubs.

    Both the Sabres (6-6-1) and the Wild (5-6-2) are below where they want to finish at the end of 82 games. Projected to come into the playoffs as a Wild Card team or potentially even higher, both hockey clubs are hoping to reach higher heights compared to the middle ground where they are currently situated. No one wants to be in the mushy middle but these two teams haven't hit their groove quite yet.

    For the Wild, they are just getting their team together for the first time this year. For the Sabres, they are still dealing with ongoing injuries -- Eric Comrie, Jack Quinn, Mattias Samuelsson, Zach Benson, Brandon Biro, and our friend Alex Tuch are all out with various ailments -- so they can blame the lack of success on that, for now.

    It might be a stalemate type of game, or it might be a barnburner. Anything is possible in this quasi reunion between two similar hockey teams.

    When: 6:00 p.m. CT
    Where: Keybank Arena
    TV: Bally Sports North
    Radio: KFAN 100.3

    Projected Wild lineup

    Kirill Kaprizov -- Marco Rossi -- Matt Boldy
    Marcus Johansson -- Ryan Hartman -- Mats Zuccarello
    Marcus Foligno -- Joel Eriksson Ek -- Patrick Maroon
    Brandon Duhaime -- Connor Dewar -- Vinni Lettieri

    Jonas Brodin -- Brock Faber
    Jake Middleton -- Jared Spurgeon
    Daemon Hunt -- Zach Bogosian

    Filip Gustavsson
    Marc-Andre Fleury

    Projected Sabres lineup

    Jeff Skinner -- Tage Thompson -- Matthew Savoie
    Jordan Greenway -- Casey Mittelstadt -- J.J. Peterka
    Victor Olofsson -- Peyton Krebs -- Dylan Cozens
    Zemgus Girgensons -- Tyson Jost -- Kyle Okposo

    Rasmus Dahlin -- Ryan Johnson
    Owen Power -- Henri Jokiharju
    Connor Clifton -- Erik Johnson

    Devon Levi
    Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen

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    By Thomas Williams  

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    UK_Soldier
    5 minutes ago, M_Nels said:

    Both PP’s actually looked pretty good that time. Nothing found twine but had some good looks. 

    I'm going to take credit given I was sarcastically (or not?) thinking the Wild needed to call in Parise and Oates. The Wild obviously don't want that to happen. 

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    M_Nels
    3 minutes ago, UK_Soldier said:

    Nice to see Greenway is still too lazy to back check. Man, he could be a pretty good NHL player if he wanted to. 

    Had a hockey coach that hated the word “potential” said if you’re always talking about a guys potential he damn sure isn’t ever going to live up to it. Greenway could be a unit but lacks the killer instinct. 

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    4 minutes ago, M_Nels said:

    Had a hockey coach that hated the word “potential” said if you’re always talking about a guys potential he damn sure isn’t ever going to live up to it. Greenway could be a unit but lacks the killer instinct. 

    I was worried based upon the scouting reports when he was drafted by the Wild. He was call "lazy" in college. Natural talent, no "want-to". 

    ...and in his defense, he's shown flashes of the "want-to" but it's few and far between. 

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    UK_Soldier

    Shit. My god. I've never seen a Wild team be worse with turnovers...and it's KK97 again. FML. 

    ...and now you're frustrated and take a penalty. Pull your head out of your f'ing ass. 

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    M_Nels

    That simply cannot happen, period. Brodin/KK with a BRUTAL turnover. Wild all the momentum the whole period and felt like they could’ve had 3+ goals and give up a boneheaded breakaway. 

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    Protec

    That's how hockey works. Miss chances, flunk PPs, and eventually you make a mistake and it's in the back of your net. 

    They need to just come out and kill the penalty. Then win the next shift. One shift at a time.

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    UK_Soldier
    Just now, M_Nels said:

    FFS boys. All about execution, dominating in every category (faceoffs surprisingly too) and yet down 1-3.

    They're leading in basically every fancy stat you can think of. They just can't hit the net or execute. 

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