Minnesota Wild

The Minnesota Wild hope to give the injury-depleted St. Louis Blues further grief and do it with their "GREEF line" Sunday in Game 4 of their first-round ...

"It is what it is with the D-corps. They're banged up back there, but we've got to be simple back there, we've got to move the puck as quickly as we can and our forwards have to do a lot more than they're doing right now. He goes down and we lose that part, but we are deep and we have to find a way. "We have a lot of skill guys out there. Not only to go out there and not allow them to score 5-on-5 but to go out and get a couple of goals is obviously a bonus. "I don't think I came out planning on scoring as quick as we did. "We usually played against the other team's top line.

After his hat trick against the St. Louis Blues in Game 2, where does Kirill Kaprizov's playoff performance rank in Minnesota Wild history?

The Wild have a special roster this postseason, and Kaprizov has already proven that with his hat trick performance against the Blues in Game 2. Although a decline in play and an expensive contract led to his removal from the ‘State of Hockey,’ Wild fans will never forget Zach Parise’s contributions to the franchise. The best single-game playoff performance in Wild history comes from goaltender Manny Fernandez way back in the 2002-03 NHL season. It also solidified him as a player that the fanbase hoped management could build around for years to come, although he was eventually traded in a deal that Some teams may have crumbled under the pressure that comes from a blown lead, but not Parise and the Wild. The Minneapolis, MN native gave his team the lead back with his second goal of the game at 13:31 into the third period before adding another secondary assist on Jason Pominville’s goal that made it 4-2 with less than 90 seconds remaining. Kaprizov’s first marker of the postseason came as the Wild were on the power play with under a minute left in the first period. However, there’s still much of the series left to be played, so time will tell just how important his hat trick was in the grand scheme of things. The 42 saves that Talbot made are the most in a playoff shutout by any Wild goaltender in franchise history, which is why it’s still a performance that’s fondly remembered even though it may have ended up higher on the list had Minnesota won the series. Fortunately, a 2-on-1 rush between Zuccarello and Kaprizov resulted in the latter’s second goal of the game before eventually adding an empty-net goal for the first hat trick in Wild playoff history. There’s no doubt that Kaprizov’s trio of goals will be remembered fondly by Wild fans in the near future, but where does his Game 2 performance against the Blues rank when it comes to the franchises’ other single-game playoff showings? Both teams boasted talented offenses, but it was a goaltending duel that stole the show in the series-opening contest. The 2021-22 NHL Playoffs didn’t begin the way that the Minnesota Wild intended when they lost Game 1 of their opening round series against the St. Louis Blues, 4-0.

In Game 3 against the St. Louis Blues, the Minnesota Wild trio of Joel Eriksson Ek, Jordan Greenway, and Marcus Foligno, could not do one thing wrong. From the ...

In my humble opinion, this is Perfect Hockey. They clearly do have the ability to rifle a puck essentially through the twine, but before they do that, they will make the opponent feel hopeless and helpless. “They’re gritty, they’re heavy, they play defensively and everybody comes back to help in the d-zone. Thirty-nine seconds into the first, and then in the third, Eriksson Ek got the fourth goal of the game and his third of the playoffs just 22 seconds into the final frame. “The majority of the season, we usually play against the other team’s top line, and not only do we go out there and not allow them to score 5-on-5, we go out and produce and get a couple goals,” Greenway said after the 5-1 win that put the Wild up 2-1 in the first-round series. We should be used to this by now, but this forward line is just playing the exactly style of hockey that makes every appreciator of grinding out a goal all gooey-eyed. In Game 3 against the St. Louis Blues, the Minnesota Wild trio of Joel Eriksson Ek, Jordan Greenway, and Marcus Foligno, could not do one thing wrong.

The Minnesota Wild easily handled the Blues 5-1 on Friday night in Game 3 of a Western Conference first-round playoff series at an Enterprise Center that so ...

Even with another 8:30 p.m. start, the Enterprise Center was ready. All of that happened before Torey Krug became the latest St. Louis defenseman to suffer an injury. St. Louis had its opportunities on Minnesota goalie Marc Andre-Fleury, but couldn't connect on passes or consistently put a body in front of Andre-Fleury to obstruct his view. The Blues were without defenseman Nick Leddy for Friday's game but returned Marco Scandella. Scandella was a game-time decision but finished the game. Husso faced his first of a handful when Minnesota's Jordan Greenway scored 39 seconds into the game. ”We can’t look at that as an excuse,” Blues coach Craig Berube said.

The Minnesota Wild visit the St. Louis Blues in the first round of the NHL Playoffs with a 2-1 lead in the series.

BOTTOM LINE: The Minnesota Wild visit the St. Louis Blues in the first round of the NHL Playoffs with a 2-1 lead in the series. The Blues have a 42-7-4 record when scoring at least three goals. St. Louis has a 16-5-3 record in Central Division games and a 49-22-11 record overall. The Wild won 5-1 in the last matchup. St. Louis Blues (49-22-11, third in the Central Division) Minnesota Wild (53-22-7, second in the Central Division) vs.

The Wild's offensive attack jumped on the Blues early, scoring the game's first four goals en route to the Game 3 victory.

To say the Phillies were in need of a lift after a loss like that would be an understatement. The New York Islanders don’t have any playoff games to suit up for this year, so one of their young stars will get a chance to represent his country for the first time in a while. The Phillies gave up seven runs in the ninth inning of Thursday’s 8-7 loss to the Mets, which prompted Harper to call a players-only meeting after the game. Halak — remember the T-shirts that were all the rage in Montreal that spring with "Halak" inside the outline of a stop sign? and my vision and my hope is that he continues to progress on the same level as he gets another year in the system." The Oilers were not supposed to be this good, this fast, and were definitely not supposed to sweep Les Glorieux. It would take three more years before the Oilers would supplant the New York Islanders to win the first of five Stanley Cups, but make no mistake — knocking off the Habs in three straight in 1981 was the upset that kick-started the dynasty. When the Devils lost 3-0 to the Flyers in Game 5 of the first round, there were definitely some cheers in the bar. The frustration that was evident in the play of the Bolts after just two games at home said a lot. There has been very little interest in Baker Mayfield over the past several weeks, but that could change in a hurry if the Cleveland Browns give up on trying to trade him. “In the spotlight, playing in the playoffs, playing a huge role, playing well — that’s all been taken away from him. That is a smart formula, but one that is definitely harder to repeat on the road. T.J. Oshie's power-play goal got the Capitals on the board with under a minute to go in the first, and the teams went into the intermission tied 1-1.