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GDT: G70: Wild vs Sabres - 1:00PM CST

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Instead of Shout, im gonna imagine i heard Free Bird instead!
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For a giant guy, Greenway sure is invisible. I don't miss him. Trenin "Don't call me Boldy" is a better player, which is kinda sad, considering how good Greenway looked at times early on in his career.
 
MNRube said:
Kap-JEE-Nyquist
Boldy-Rossi-Zucc
Foligno-Hartman-Hinostroza
Trenin-Freddy-Mojo
(Brazeau)

Brodin-Spurgeon
Middleton-Faber
Merrill-Bogo
(Buium/Chisholm)

Feels like Mojo inevitably finds himself higher up, but I like the look of that lineup for playoffs. Maybe swap Zucc & Nyquist.

Or do you go

Kap-Hartman
Boldy-Rossi
Foligno-JEE

For more scoring depth
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I feel like they’d be better off trying to use JEE back in that shutdown role with Foligno. I also think Nyquist could work well with those two since he’s a solid two-way guy with offensive skills. It’d open up the matchups for the other two lines.

I don’t really know if this is the best lineup they could put together, but I’d at least be interested to see how it looks.

Kap - Rossi - Zucc
Boldy - Hartman - Stroza
Foligno - JEE - Nyquist
Mojo - Gaudreau - Trenin
Brazeau

Flipping Boldy & Foligno in that lineup could also work too imo. Still frustrating they wasted assets on a player that should be the 13th forward when this team is healthy.
 
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Well, assuming the 2nd wildcard slot takes 95 points to claim, the Wild need 5 wins in their remaining 12 games. The team that would need to overcome them, the Canucks, would need 10 wins in their remaining 12. The Wild are all but in at this point, it would take a seismic collapse while also having the Canucks turn into the Jets for 12 games.

So... yay!
 
BagHead said:
Well, assuming the 2nd wildcard slot takes 95 points to claim, the Wild need 5 wins in their remaining 12 games. The team that would need to overcome them, the Canucks, would need 10 wins in their remaining 12. The Wild are all but in at this point, it would take a seismic collapse while also having the Canucks turn into the Jets for 12 games.

So... yay!
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At this point it's becoming more about maintaining their current position as the 1st wild card.

You don't really want to face Dallas or Jets in the first round, and getting into the Pacific side of the bracket through Vegas feels like a better outcome.
 
Wasted Talent said:
At this point it's becoming more about maintaining their current position as the 1st wild card.

You don't really want to face Dallas or Jets in the first round, and getting into the Pacific side of the bracket through Vegas feels like a better outcome.
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Better stop winning then, because they're only a game back of Colorado.
 
BagHead said:
Better stop winning then, because they're only a game back of Colorado.
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Time to go full f7ben and root for losses until the playoffs.

Seriously though, Colorado seems to be trending upwards. They only recently passed Wild in the standings and are 8-1-1 in the last 10. I'm not too worried about passing them.
 
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BagHead said:
Well, assuming the 2nd wildcard slot takes 95 points to claim, the Wild need 5 wins in their remaining 12 games. The team that would need to overcome them, the Canucks, would need 10 wins in their remaining 12. The Wild are all but in at this point, it would take a seismic collapse while also having the Canucks turn into the Jets for 12 games.

So... yay!
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OTL are also a thing.

I've got them getting 10 points in the last 12 games at the very least, which will get tyhem to 95 points. You have to go back 10 years to find a team in the West that has missed the playoffs with that many in a 82 game season.
 
57special said:
OTL are also a thing.

I've got them getting 10 points in the last 12 games at the very least, which will get tyhem to 95 points. You have to go back 10 years to find a team in the West that has missed the playoffs with that many in a 82 game season.
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Was that team the WIld?
 
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LAK. We had 100 that year, good for 1st Wild Card.

Plus ca change, plus ca change pas.
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There's something comforting in that, in knowing that even after I've been dead for centuries, the Wild will be a wildcard team, a team named for what they are, a team with an identity so ironclad it can neither sink nor rise. One constant in a sea of roiling change, one life raft to cling to when tides elevate and crash over everyone else in alternating periods like a sine and cosine made of crushing weight. There where they meet: The Minnesota Wild.
 
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There's something comforting in that, in knowing that even after I've been dead for centuries, the Wild will be a wildcard team, a team named for what they are, a team with an identity so ironclad it can neither sink nor rise. One constant in a sea of roiling change, one life raft to cling to when tides elevate and crash over everyone else in alternating periods like sine and cosine made of crushing weight. There where they meet: The Minnesota Wild.
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They might have been a wild card in 2014-15 but at least they won a round. In fact, they had won in the first round two years in a row.

And then they would get swept in the 2nd round and never win a series again.
 
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