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


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    Thomas Williams

    Jesper Wallstedt is here and is making his long-awaited NHL debut in Dallas against a Stars team that is looking to build upon a 4-0 smacking of the Minnesota Wild on Monday.

    Should we really put all our hope into a 21-year-old netminder, or should we just play it cool and hope for the best? It's hard to not get super excited for the future of the Minnesota crease.

    When: 7:00 p.m. CT
    Where: American Airlines Center
    TV: Bally Sports North
    Radio: KFAN 100.3

    Projected Wild lineup

    Matt Boldy -- Marco Rossi -- Mats Zuccarello
    Marcus Johansson -- Joel Eriksson Ek -- Ryan Hartman
    Marcus Foligno -- Frederick Gaudreau -- Patrick Maroon
    Brandon Duhaime -- Connor Dewar -- Adam Raska

    Jake Middleton -- Brock Faber
    Jon Merrill -- Zach Bogosian
    Daemon Hunt -- Dakota Mermis

    Jesper Wallstedt
    (Marc-Andre Fleury)

    Projected Stars lineup

    Jason Robertson -- Roope Hintz -- Joe Pavelski
    Mason Marchment -- Matt Duchene -- Tyler Seguin
    Jamie Benn -- Wyatt Johnston -- Evgenii Dadonov
    Radek Faksa -- Sam Steel -- Craig Smith

    Esa Lindell -- Jani Hakapaa
    Ryan Suter -- Nils Lundkvist
    Thomas Harley -- Joel Hanley

    Scott Wedgewood
    (Matt Murray)

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    I hope that ends up being the roster tonight! Joe Smith (via the Athletic) posted on Twitter that Foligno and Johansson are game time decisions due to illness. He posted the lineups as:

    Boldy — Ek — Zuccarello
    Hunt — Rossi — Hartman
    Petan — Gaudreau — Maroon
    Raska — Dewar — Duhaime

    Middleton — Faber
    Goligoski — Bogosian
    Merrill — Mermis

    Wallstedt (excited to watch his NHL debut)

    This lineup is much rougher. Fingers crossed Foligno and Johansson are able to play (so instead of 5 AHL players, there would be 3 — progress)!

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    I may have to go to the local tavern to watch this one. Just found out it's on TNT. Figures. I hate watching them at the saloons, but I want to watch the Wall layin bricks down in his debut.

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    I’d rather they play Hunt as a forward than rush anyone back at this point. But I have to wonder why Hunt rather than Goligoski or Merrill? Not that I prefer anyone on D to play the forward position unless too valuable to the D position like Fabar for example. One could argue to keep Hunt learning his D assignments and getting him comfortable doing so in the NHL. Hunt’s still developing. Unlike playing Goligoski which isn’t gonna hurt his D play or development, same with Merrill. There’s nothing to lose playing the likes of the other two. Other than the game itself that is. 

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    3 minutes ago, Willy the poor boy said:

    Flower on standby High Alert!!

    We don't need Flower, the Wall did fine for his 1st period of real NHL hockey.

    We just need our skaters to keep control of the pick and put a couple past Wedgewood (and stay off special teams as much as possible, please).

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    19 minutes ago, UK_Soldier said:

    Jo Pa still has it. Wished a while back the Wild would have grabbed him.

    ...and I still wish they would have got him. Would have been pennies on the dollar draft pick-wise and he is only making 3.5 mil on his current deal with the Stars.

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    1 minute ago, bisopher said:

    We don't need Flower, the Wall did fine for his 1st period of real NHL hockey.

    We just need our skaters to keep control of the pick and put a couple past Wedgewood (and stay off special teams as much as possible, please).

    Agreed. The called off 5 hole goal was concerning, but it is his FIRST NHL GAME. He has been robotic, anticipatory as advertised and I like it. Flower has flair and I enjoy watching it, but give me a tender that stops everything he should stop. 

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    Is it just me or does Boldly have a game(s) where he seems to just ceases to exist. I am not asking you to score every night, but my god, catch my attention in a good way for fucks sake.

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