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  • Macklin Celebrini Embarrasses Wild in 2-1 Loss

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    Thomas Williams

    By Thomas Williams -

    That's Wild

    • Macklin Celebrini and his band of San Jose Sharks came to town and just made the Minnesota Wild look a little silly. Despite outshooting them by a substantial margin and having chances that they never really connected on, the Sharks walked over the Wild to earn a 2-1 overtime win in Minnesota. It was not a fun watch. [StarTribune]
    • After not starting out the season as dominant as we hoped, and other American defensemen coming into their own stardom, where does Brock Faber stand for Team USA in Milan next year? Having his own general manager also be in charge of that team certainly helps, but can Bill Guerin really leave off Lane Hutson? [Hockey Wilderness]
    • Filip Gustavsson's season is still on track, even after signing his big contract. [Hockey Wilderness]

    Off the trail...

    • Well, the bad season for the Toronto Maple Leafs just got potentially a whole lot worse. Auston Matthews was hit from behind by Bruins defenseman Nikita Zadorov on Tuesday night and had to leave the game due to an injury. If he's out for any amount of time, the Leafs will only sink further down the standings. [Sportsnet]
    • The Los Angeles Kings were able to surge past the Montreal Canadiens on their way to a 5-1 in and killing the Quebecois team's point streak at six games. [NHL.com]
    • Connor McDavid powered his entire team and his own head coach admits that the captain was not going to let the Oilers lose to the Blue Jackets after their brutal skid. [TheScore]
    By Thomas Williams  

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    Pewterschmidt

    2nd game in a row with a 0-0-0 stat line for Rossi playing 1C with 97.  This game ended in a one goal loss where it's fair to expect Rossi to step up and make a play.  There were stretches last night I wasn't sure he was in the lineup.  While Rossi is not the problem with this group, these 0's playing 1C are what the non-rossi-apologist's see when this team is sliding sideways and looking for a player to step up.

    Hunt is a silver lining in this cloudy season.  Jiri can now be labelled a "project".  Nice work Guerin.

    Are we still complaining about Ogz getting an 'opportunity', why is Ben Jones playing? Or are we ready to come to grips with how dire this lineup really is and what the rest of the season is going to look like?

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    OldDutchChip
    9 minutes ago, Pewterschmidt said:

    2nd game in a row with a 0-0-0 stat line for Rossi playing 1C with 97.  This game ended in a one goal loss where it's fair to expect Rossi to step up and make a play.  There were stretches last night I wasn't sure he was in the lineup.  While Rossi is not the problem with this group, these 0's playing 1C are what the non-rossi-apologist's see when this team is sliding sideways and looking for a player to step up.

    Hunt is a silver lining in this cloudy season.  Jiri can now be labelled a "project".  Nice work Guerin.

    Are we still complaining about Ogz getting an 'opportunity', why is Ben Jones playing? Or are we ready to come to grips with how dire this lineup really is and what the rest of the season is going to look like?

    time to send Jiri to IA, his play is horrendous. skoula was better. barker was better. kuba was better. argh

    maybe rotate Harty in for Rossi? One line needs grit and the other playmaking. it could help both lines. someone besides Johy and Boldy needs to score....

     

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    Citizen Strife

    If the team gets 2-4 points from Anaheim or Vegas, no one's going to remember this.  I'm encouraged by the team not letting in the 3, 4, 5 goals like they seemingly did EVERY game.  That gets points more often than not, because this team is not going to run and gun.  Keep other teams to 2-3, they can win those.

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    Imyourhuckleberry
    6 minutes ago, Citizen Strife said:

    I'm encouraged by the team not letting in the 3, 4, 5 goals like they seemingly did EVERY game.  That gets points more often than not, because this team is not going to run and gun.  Keep other teams to 2-3, they can win those.

    It will certainly help if the Wild can score more than 1 goal. I could only watch the NHL.com highlights. It looked there like the Wild were very close to adding at least 1 more, but that Askarov was on top of his game.

    Buium hit the pipe. Kaprizov had a shot from the middle between the dots and Askaroz was able to get a pad on it. Kaprizov often gets that elevated more to hit the top half of the goal, but not quite high enough on that one.

    The Wild only allowing 1 goal in regulation is certainly a much better result than the 5 allowed on 10/26 in regulation, along with the OT goal against.

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    Will D. Ness
    55 minutes ago, OldDutchChip said:

    skoula was better

    Ouch.  

    I think it's clear that our prospect pool isn't what it has been hyped up to be.  Jiricek has a long way to go.  He isn't a lost cause... same with Ogz... but neither are going to become NHL game changers soon if ever.  Zeev has massive upside but he needs a season or two as well.

    Silver lining for me is Yurov.  He might be better than Rossi by the end of the season.  Wally looking good too. 

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