« Je veux dire, nous allons être extrêmement urgents », a déclaré Hughes. « Je pense que nous avons joué trois très bons matchs éliminatoires jusqu’à présent. Vous savez, j’aime notre jeu. Pas une seule seconde je ne me demande comment se déroulera le prochain match, nous serons prêts à y aller. »
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You can say anything, but this team isn’t winning shit. Star players not showing up, depth isn’t there and undisciplined play.
Whoever won last night’s game was going to win the series.
Their quotes after were pretty bullish, Boldy in particular was pretty spicy. I think the main concern is you don’t want the team to be down and demoralized. If that’s what they’re saying to the press that’s the right tone to take. If they really mean it, I don’t know.
I’m just glad they didn’t have Faber go out there again after he dismissed his own goals the previous loss. That kid needs to stop taking everything on himself.
Kirills gotta step up
The series is not over, but they blew chance after chance given to them (or helped by Wally until the Stars finally got it).
McCarron scored on Oettinger. I’m sorry, but if he can get lucky, Kap, Hughes, Tarasenko, Brink, etc should have reveled in all the PP time they got.
Johnston got the deciding goal long after the Wild « should » have gotten it done in OT1. You beat the teams in front of you. The Stars weren’t buzzing around the ice and scoring like crazy. The game was cautious to a fault and the Wild had « the better » of the momentum. Turns out it meant nothing. The team beat their brains in in Game 1. The Stars aren’t unbeatable. Get the goals that matter in the end.
This organization needs one of the best sports psychologists. It seems like there’s a huge mental block especially for the players who have been through a bunch of playoff defeats. It’s like they put all the pressure on themselves but still expect to lose.
It’s like watching the buffalo bills in the super bowl. They pretty much knew at some point things were going to go in a downward spiral.
The dog days of playoff hockey start now. Need to find a way to dig deep and rebound. Everyone knew this series would be this tight.
My only complaint is why not put Faber on PP1 with Zucs hurt? Couldn’t seem to get it going with Tarasenko or Brink.
I think the rest of the playoffs for us will be entirely health dependent. We absolutely need Zuccy and Trenin back if at all possible, and need to find ways to mitigate the goonery.
Part of that is responding to it in the right way at the right times, and part of it is going full court press on the league. The only way officials protect our guys is if the team and fan base make it so that the league feels public pressure for missing/ignoring the Benn stuff in particular. I would really like Hynes and Guerin to press on this. Guessing Guerin won’t because “old time tough hockey”, though.
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I full expect a 3-0 loss to the Stars on Saturday based on historical Wild responses to games like this.
Russo straight up dragging Moose lmao
*Marcus Foligno said after Game 2 the Stars “can’t hang” with the Wild at five-on-five, offering some unnecessary bulletin board material, especially when the alternate captain hasn’t been a real factor in the series so far.*
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So, the truth of the matter is the fans have been conditioned to expect the worst results over the last decade. The Wild will never get over that hump until they can prove they can play a consistent 60 min game. Which they have never done in that time. Our weakness up the middle will always be our downfall, other teams can just squeeze us out to the perimeter, ala the last game, where after the 2nd or third period we were down 21 to 8 on scoring chances, at home. Pathetic. Coaching, on 5v5 and the power play has been atrocious. But at least the PK has been serviceable compared to the regular season. All in all, this team is its own worst enemy, they can hang with anyone, but they don’t, smh.