By Bryan Reynolds -
Enemy perspective: Fear The Fin
It gets really old typing the same things over and over. The fact that the Wild came out flat, showed very brief flashes of solid play and eventually just gave up should not surprise anyone. They were absolutely out played tonight. For the first time in recent memory, the Wild actually led the game in SOG, but not a one of them was worth the rubber used to earn it.
Nabokov was not tested at all, and Backstrom was left hung out to dry again and again. It was not clear tonight what the game plan was, but the offense was non existent, the Wild could not control the puck, the power play was a joke, the team defense was laughable, and the forecheck was invisible and weak.
2. Ryan Clowe (2A, 17:49 TOI)
3. BTE (1G, 2 SOG, 16:36 TOI)
Five Questions to Answer:
1. Star Wars characters on the ice between periods? WTF? Sure enough. Pictures and everything. Still not quite sure why, though.
2. Nik is back. How's this going to go? Not well.
3. Will Wellman play well (get it?) again? Sat most of the second period. Seemed afraid to mix it up when things got physical, but all in all, still a pretty good game.
5. Will Dany Heatley drive a Ferrari into anyone? No Ferraris, but he did run over the Wild tonight. Hopefully they have a team bus back to the airport.
-Buddha
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