Minnesota Wild General Discussion 2024-25

[DigitalBoldy]

 

[Webster]

Today Zucc left practice early...and his teammates: "now we're toast".

But he only decided to take the day off

 

[AKL]

Today Zucc left practice early...and his teammates: "now we're toast".

Yeah his 5 points in the last 12 games have really kept this team afloat, crisis averted

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

Canucks lost today.

 

[NHL1674]

Today Zucc left practice early...and his teammates: "now we're toast".

But he only decided to take the day off

Nice "leadership" in response to yesterday's loss.

 

[north21]

Canucks lost today.

Nice of them.

 

[kfan22]

I figure 6 Points should be good enough to get Wild in Playoffs the rest of way. Vancouver would then have to get 14 out of a possible 16 points and Calgary 13 out of possible 18 remaining. Although Calgary has 4 of last 9 against San Jose and Anaheim, so it may take 7-8 to feel secure with Calgary.


Remaining Schedules

Wild
@ NYR
@ NYI
Dal
San Jose
@ Calgary
@ Vancouver
Anaheim

Blues
Detroit
Pittsburgh
Colorado
@winnipeg
@Edmonton
@Seattle
Utah

Flames
@utah
Anaheim
Vegas
@San Jose
@Anaheim
Minnesota
San Jose
Vegas
@Los Angeles

Canucks
Seattle
Anaheim
Vegas
@Dallas
@Colorado
Minnesota
San Jose
Vegas

 

[Minnewildsota]

For those who support tanking, this popped up on my FB:

 

[BagHead]

For those who support tanking, this popped up on my FB:

It's a risky game. People talk about getting out of a tank in 7-8 years and be something like the Blackhawks semi-dynasty, but several teams have had "tanks" that have lasted decades now. Multiple decades. I can't help but think of the Coyotes/Utah, who have been bad for 13 straight seasons now, had 3 good years before that, but before those 3 years had been bad for 6 years. That's 22 years with a total of 3 truly good seasons and another mediocre playoff season where they just barely exceeded .500 (and were actually well below it if not for loser points).

I figure 6 Points should be good enough to get Wild in Playoffs the rest of way. Vancouver would then have to get 14 out of a possible 16 points and Calgary 13 out of possible 18 remaining. Although Calgary has 4 of last 9 against San Jose and Anaheim, so it may take 7-8 to feel secure with Calgary.


Remaining Schedules

Wild
@ NYR
@ NYI
Dal
San Jose
@ Calgary
@ Vancouver
Anaheim

Blues
Detroit
Pittsburgh
Colorado
@winnipeg
@Edmonton
@Seattle
Utah

Flames
@utah
Anaheim
Vegas
@San Jose
@Anaheim
Minnesota
San Jose
Vegas
@Los Angeles

Canucks
Seattle
Anaheim
Vegas
@Dallas
@Colorado
Minnesota
San Jose
Vegas

Games 80 and 81 may determine the season. Sure would be nice to have a healthy forward back for them.

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

We seemingly have good luck picking 12th. Just need to do that more often.

 

[DigitalBoldy]

Think it would be more effective to overpay for a 1st line center than go full tank. i.e. Boldy+Rossi+1st for Celebrini over going full tank.

 

[57special]

Think it would be more effective to overpay for a 1st line center than go full tank. i.e. Boldy+Rossi+1st for Celebrini over going full tank.

Thing is, that wouldn't be considered an overpay. Boldy, Rossi, and Buium/Faber would probably get it done.

 

[AKL]

Thing is, that wouldn't be considered an overpay. Boldy, Rossi, and Buium/Faber would probably get it done.

Think it depends on what level of first line center you expect Celebrini to be.

 

[57special]

Think it depends on what level of first line center you expect Celebrini to be.

Elite... top 5 C. Not now, but in the years to come when the current bunch(McD, Drai, Matthews, Mack, Eichel) start slowing down. He, Bedard, Hughes, Stutzle, maybe Carlsson will be the new elite C's.

Have to say i don't know if they will measure up to their predecessors like McDavid, Crosby, Mackinnon, Matthews, Drai.

 

[Waiver Draft]

 

[MNRube]

Marat with 0 points in his last 5. 2 G, 0 A in 10 games with Boston - one a breakaway and one a fluky dump in.

Doesn’t mean the trade was a good move, but it does lend a bit of a perspective for what exactly we gave up.

 

[DigitalBoldy]

Thing is, that wouldn't be considered an overpay. Boldy, Rossi, and Buium/Faber would probably get it done.

What center has been traded for a 23 year old top line winger + 23 year old 2nd line center + 1st?

 

[GordieGallant]

Getting pretty excited about seeing Buium sometime in April. Feel pretty confident he will be like Boldy & Faber and have an immediate impact, especially on the PP.

There’s no chance Yurov plays meaningful games this year, right?

Boldy did not have immediate impact.

 

[north21]

Boldy did not have immediate impact.

Because he got injured right away? He had a pretty good rookie year from what I remember. Lots of drooling over his potential.

 

[AKL]

Boldy did not have immediate impact.

Yeah he certainly did

 

[MNRube]

Boldy did not have immediate impact.

Yes, you are right. I thought he got some NHL games after his NCAA season, but just double checked and he never got the call up despite lighting up the AHL for 14 games. I remember a lot of people being upset we didn’t bring him up for the Vegas series

 

[DigitalBoldy]

Yes, you are right. I thought he got some NHL games after his NCAA season, but just double checked and he never got the call up despite lighting up the AHL for 14 games. I remember a lot of people being upset we didn’t bring him up for the Vegas series

Probably would have won that series too and forever changed the course of Wild history.

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

Probably would have won that series too and forever changed the course of Wild history.

Well, we lost the series so holding him out was unquestionably the wrong decision.

 

[57special]

Marat with 0 points in his last 5. 2 G, 0 A in 10 games with Boston - one a breakaway and one a fluky dump in.

Doesn’t mean the trade was a good move, but it does lend a bit of a perspective for what exactly we gave up.

Just got an assist tonight, as did Duhaime, who he was playing against. I'd rather have Duhaime, Marat, Lauko, and 1.5M than Trenin, Shore and Brazeau.

 

[DigitalBoldy]

I’d rather have none of them. They are all trash.