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    Thomas Williams

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    That's Wild

    • The Minnesota Wild are starting a pretty important three-game road trip on Tuesday night as they head down to Missouri to face the St. Louis Blues. The Blues have lost their last three home games -- including an 8-1 demolishing by the Capitals -- so they are desperate for some celebration on home ice. And after this visit to St. Louis, the Wild are heading up north to face the Oilers and the Flames. Two crucial games to get some footing in the standings. [NHL.com]
    • Wild have reunited Eriksson Ek, Kaprizov, and Boldy, and have tweaked their power play ahead of this road trip. [The Athletic]
    • Liam Ohgren is showing us the difference between a good prospect and a great one. Maybe, we've just been spoiled with Rossi, Kaprizov, and Boldy as the headliners of the Wild's prospect pool recently. [Hockey Wilderness]

    Off the trail...

    • During Monday night's Avalanche-Flyers game, referee Mitch Dunning accidentally collided with Josh Manson and had to be stretchered off the ice. Thankfully, he is able to communicate and move his limbs at a local hospital. [CTV News]
    • Ovechkin scores two more goals to lead the NHL in goals (at 39 years old!) but suffered a knee-on-knee collision that forced him to leave the game early. Oof. [NHL.com]
    • Predicting the best and worst teams for the next three seasons. [ESPN]
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    “It’s exciting,” said Boldy, who’s second on the Wild with 10 goals and 18 points this season and is one of only three Wild players — along with Kaprizov and Marco Rossi — to score a goal in the past three games. “It’s part of the long season. Guys are going to get hurt. Guys have to play with different guys.

    “We’ve seen that the last few games with scrambling them up. So I’m excited to see some different looks and different combos and try to see if they work.”

    Boldy commenting on playing with JEE and Kaprizov. I imagine when your other winger changes from Johansson to Kaprizov, it's extremely exciting!

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    Protec

    Nice to see Ovi scoring, hope he's back soon.

    Noticed McBain has five goals. Bjugstad three.

    MN could use a little more from their depth guys. Take a look at these numbers. Better results than last year in the standings, but come on guys. Gotta find a way.

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    Imyourhuckleberry

    Riley Heidt has missed a few games with an upper body injury, but sounds like he's day-to-day. His teammate, Kings winger Koehn Ziemmer, has been lighting the lamp regularly to lead Prince Georges with 19 goals in 15 games(7 goals ahead of everyone else despite missing 5 games). Yes, that's who I wanted the Wild to draft instead of Heidt. Them being on the same team makes it easy to track how each is doing.

    I also see they have an undrafted Right-shot D that's been playing for Slovakia in the under-20 worlds the last few years, Viliam Kmec. He's 6'2" and 205 pounds. Perhaps the Wild can add him to their AHL defensive unit next year? I imagine some team will. He's leading Prince Georges with 21 assists in 20 games and is a +22 while no other teammates are in double digits for +/-.

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    Stramel was also able to add a goal and an assist in an 8-3 beat down of Notre Dame over the weekend, moving his point total to 8 in 10 games played.

    Substantial improvement considering Stramel had exactly the same number of goals(3) and assists(5) in 34 games last season!

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