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  • Gamethread: Wild vs. Kings (7:00 p.m.)

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    Thomas Williams

    By Thomas Williams -

    The visiting Los Angeles Kings have certainly won a whole lot, but is tonight against the Minnesota Wild, their tipping point? A team can only go for so long with a goaltending tandem of David Rittich and Darcy Kuemper, and their lineup appears to somewhat be in flux. 

    The Wild should come at them hard and fast and maybe catch them on their back heels. Or, it could just be a gridlock in the neutral zone as two somewhat similar teams upfront collide.

    When: 7:00 p.m. CT
    Where: Xcel Energy Center
    TV: Bally Sports North, ESPN+
    Radio: KFAN 100.3

    Projected Wild lineup

    Kirill Kaprizov -- Marco Rossi -- Mats Zuccarello
    Marcus Johansson -- Joel Eriksson Ek -- Matt Boldy
    Marcus Foligno -- Frederick Gaudreau -- Ryan Hartman
    Jakub Lauko -- Marat Khusnutdinov -- Yakov Trenin

    Jake Middleton -- Brock Faber
    Jonas Brodin -- Jared Spurgeon
    Jon Merrill -- Zach Bogosian

    Filip Gustavsson
    (Marc-Andre Fleury)

    Projected Kings lineup

    Alex Turcotte -- Anze Kopitar -- Adrian Kempe
    Kevin Fiala -- Phillip Danault -- Trevor Moore
    Alex Laferriere -- Quinton Byfield -- Warren Foegele
    Tanner Jeannot -- Trevor Lewis -- Akil Thomas

    Mikey Anderson -- Jordan Spence
    Joel Edmundson -- Brandt Clarke
    Vladislav Gavrikov -- Kyle Burroughs

    David Rittich
    (Darcy Kuemper)

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    Protec
    3 minutes ago, Citizen Strife said:

    It's going to get to the point where any PK the Wild actually succeed on is going to get a standing ovation...

    Classic hockey lesson. Choke away three PPs, sure as shit the one against costs you. The Wild have been better disciplined this season but gotta think about results, not excuses.

    Gonna need a large 3rd period. Still not impressed with the vets overall production. MN catching breaks has dried up. Need to make your own kind of thing.

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    Skomonkey
    2 minutes ago, Protec said:

    Classic hockey lesson. Choke away three PPs, sure as shit the one against costs you. The Wild have been better disciplined this season but gotta think about results, not excuses.

    Gonna need a large 3rd period. Still not impressed with the vets overall production. MN catching breaks has dried up. Need to make your own kind of thing.

    Well said

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    Protec

    I hate to say it but you have a chance to jump out to a two goal lead with the early PPs and it doesn't happen. Eventually the road team picks up steam and not you're chasing.

    Need some Kirill magic or something. Anything...

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    Protec

    Great game to learn from. Wild have to bounce back. They got lucky beating Toronto. Maybe should have given Gus a rest. Scoring has fallen off a cliff just that fast. Need to execute. 

    Strongly believe a PP goal to go up 2-0 woulda been the lead MN wants to play with. Once you're chasing in the 3rd, it's likely you're gonna get loose and give up more chances. LA does not suck. 

    MN can't take anything for granted. Good start but teams are gonna wanna beat you. MN has to blame the PP and to some degree Gus both letting down tonight. 

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    Protec

    Didn't clean up around the net AND LA's big NA guys got the better of MN's little Euros and 3rd D-pair. 

    Besides the first goal no momentum captured and no big players factoring in for MN. The anti-success recipe tonight. 

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