Minnesota Wild General Discussion 2024-25

[NHL1674]

and you really thought Wild would finish ahead Stars and Avs this year?

No, but it would have been fun to try. I can't ever recall a time when our bleuline took such a hit.

 

[MNRube]

I'm sorry, but i don't see how we hold it together with our defense in shambles. The top 3 injured is too much. No Kap, Spurgeon, Faber, and Brodin. All of this while the Avs and Stars are only getting stronger too.

We ain’t out of this yet. The dynamics of our franchise changed when Faber became a 1D. Teams with two-way 1Ds rarely underperform. Add in Brodin, Spurgeon and Middleton and our floor is quite high. It was obscured last year bc Spurgeon was out, our bottom 6 was awful and we had sub .900 team SV %.

But the point is, the emergence of Rossi & Faber have changed the game. We have a franchise forward and a franchise D. Two solid Top 6 Cs and good defensive depth players. We have some serious bullets still in the chamber with Jiricek, Buium, Yurov & Ohgren. It all depends on health and goaltending but I still like our chances to win a round or two.

Avs still have zero depth and 5 or 6 plugs playing big minutes at any given time. We haven’t played Dallas with a full lineup in forever and they have lost some key pieces as well. They are very good, but not infallible.

 

[Luceni]

Fans gotta be patient now with all those injured players. You could take out the top 3 defensemen and the top forward of any team: All of them would be getting problems winning games.

Every point we get without those 4 playing is a huge success imo.

 

[AKL]

Don't care about the standings, I'm excited to watch Jiricek more

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

Don't care about the standings, I'm excited to watch Jiricek more

I just don't want a cavalcade of 7-1 losses.