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An Angered Beast

I'd like to be incorrect. It's happened once before.

But, I feel like the slide continues tonight.

Feels like another "L"

Wonder how they respond to getting absolutely smoked by Vancouver Thursday night

Okay. Something nice….. I like your jerseys….. and this rolling Flames team scares the hell out of me.

The flames are a fast, physical team. As fast as the Panthers and as Physical as the jets. The boys need to reach down, adjust their cups and get after it. This is gonna be a war of a game.

Calgary plays like a team in the East, with skill…Gonna be a tough team to beat.

With how heavy Calgary is playing, it's going to get ugly tonight

The Sutter Effect

Calgary looks FAST.

Wild look slow.

God this is embarrassing, we look so outmatched. We try to just dump the puck out of our zone in desperation.

Calgary plays a heavy game. Reminds me of Panthers. Pressure all over the ice. Hopefully Wild can wake up.

Seems like we just fall apart any time a team plays us physically.

Feel like every guy on Calgary is 6inches taller than our guys and has free reign to just grab faces every whistle.

Wild need to match Calgary's physical game to have a fair chance.

"AND SOMEHOW IT STAYS OUT OF THE NET" Is a perfect way to sum up this team rn

this is gonna be an everything must go right type of game, yeesh.

“Wild getting absolutely annihilated in every way. just one and dones, no pucks deep, outskated, out of position, huffing and puffing with their heads down as they drag themselves to the bench on line changes. This is something” — russo

Benn was so surprised that he made a nice move with the puck that he panicked and iced it despite having time

Dewey. Keep control of the god damn puck for christs sake. Turned a 2 on 1 to #### because you can't control the puck with literally no one on you

God damn if we’re not gonna get any shots on net I wish we’d at least get violent against these pricks.

So we don’t hit anymore. The moose had been a puss since he got back. Hard to watch these games. Not the wild I watched all year.

They should get an absolute rat at the deadline, somebody that will keep goons in check when the camera isn’t on him

This team is lost right now. Literally no identity.

Legit feels like we are just taking this game off. Kahk doing work and his defense leaving him out to dry. We might have a whole 45 seconds of possession so far in this game.

Not having Dumba and Greenway against a heavy team like Calgary really blows

why are we playing like pussies? theres no physicality and no hustle. i dont think ive seen us lay a hit yet…

I’m disgusted by this game. 4-18 on shots. 5-17 on hits. How the #### do we come back from this?

2nd period looks just like the 1st.

Wild can’t even pass cleanly when the Flames aren’t pressuring.

That Tyler Foli, Boy

####, saw that comin.

Lmao. It's gonna be one of "those" hockey nights.

What in the #### was that

Haven’t watched a flames game this year but wow, they look really ####ing solid tonight. Their breakouts have been all money this first period.

Did someone put valium in the Wild's Gatorade tonight??

Everything about that was ugly.

####
wake up Wild

Welll.... dam.

Special Sanctions

What the #### did Kap get a penalty for???

2 min for getting cross checked in the face

The calls on Kaprizov are just the NHL's sanctions against Russia.

Lmao wtf was Kappy supposed to do there? Dude is straight up grabbing him and he's trying to get off the interference. Two times this month I've seen Kappy get a penalty after he gets punched in the face.

Kaprizov needs to stop taking all these penalties tonight for getting punched!

Kaprisov is gonna ####ing kill a ref at this point. And I'll chip in on his bail

Hey refs how bout you go #### yourselves for that

How does the ref literally watch Marg put Spurg in a chokehold and just does nothing

Now they're just hating Kaprizov because he's from Russia.

Ok soooo just grab someone around the throat.

Looks like Calgary can get away with anything lol

Third penalty for the Wild for....getting penalized?
What do refs even do?

How the #### is that a penalty?

It's not like Calgary isn't interfering along the boards or anything

Refs are blind tonight

Another holding with both hands on the stick???? What in the #### is going on.

Zook had both hands on his stick, but he held him lol. This team is being put over.
How is it that we have Kaprizov, but get no calls?

Emboldened Excursions

Lol Spurg gets sucker punched. Not a thing.

I know it’s a hockey tradition to blame the refs for bad games but this #### is almost starting to feel rigged at this point.

Mangiapane literally chokeholds Spurg and refs don’t see a thing

Someone on this team needs to knock Mangiapane the #### out

We need to start playing chippy hard ass hockey against these goons ffs

Galgary are a bunch of ####s.

#### these Flames are just goony as hell

Chucky on the PP

Are you f***ing kidding me?

I swear Flames fans have the highest ratio of jersey-wearing fans at home games. Not Flames t-shirts or red apparel--just jerseys.

Can someone show the Tkachucks how to use a damn mouth guard

It’s spelled Kachuck, I put no respeck on their name

Was that Tkachuk popping Kap a few times there?

Holy #### what is wrong with this team?

We look just straight up outmatched these last couple games

How can anyone hate Matt Tkachuk? Doin his job every shift.

That's exactly why people hate him lol

Ultimate Goalbranson

At least I have a comical amount of weed and alcohol here to keep me watching this dumpster fire.

oy what is happening.....

I mean I want to pretend like this is just a slump, but I've got serious questions about this teams defense, and the Addison scratch makes no sense against one of the fastest teams in the league. Jordie Benn should never play for the Wild again. Nothing about him being out there makes me feel positive. Missing Dumba and Greenway hurts, but... Benn over Addison? Absolute head scratcher.

just ####, lazy passing from the wild this road trip. no fore in this team either. early in the season being down 3-1 was fuel for their fire. it seemed like in this game when they were down 2 they were out of it.

This game is putrid. Welcome to the slump………….####!

Home Warrior, Andrew Mangiapane

Such ####ing horse#### lmao dean should toss a Gato tank on the ice

Dude, wtf. All the puck hops going Calgary's way.

You can tell Dean has seen enough

This is a moment where Dean walks into the room, says "figure it out" and walks out.

Spurgeon's ####s probably smell better than Mangiapane

Uggggggghhhhhhh.........

Our rotations on both goals against were absolute..

Ahhh yes. This is the Minnesota sports I’ve been missing

Blakeman

I feel like this team can just simply be outmuscled. They dump it into the zone instead of skating in so often. Can't hold the zone either...

Not sure of what the #### is going on, but this isn't you Wild.

Still lots of bad passing and tossing the puck away to the Flames.

LFGW. Welp, this is going well.

They’re toying with us at this point a breakaway like that shouldn’t happen in the NHL

it's getting pretty stinky

Why am I going to watch this 3rd period?

esus two break aways short handed and a goal because fiala throwing it into someone's skates...

The Forces of Nature

Calgary has some massive defensemen. They have intimidated all our forwards. Greenway and Foligno should mitigate some if that.

Just keep dumping it in like "maybe it'll work this time!"

This team is a shell of its former self. It just seems that they are all playing with some nagging injuries.......including Kaprizov. Just not the same team.

PERIOD 2...

BLOW ZADOROV INTO THE SUN.

First he lays cheap hits on Boldy. Twice.

Then that bull#### at the end of the period with Fiala.

Jesus don't kill Boldy please!

Hit so hard the boards did the wave

The Safety Netters

You can dance if you want to
I might go to sleep
'cause the wild can't play
And since they can't play
Might as well go to bed

Dean's gotta just give up with the empty net....down 3 with less than a minute to go. Christ! It's a bit embarrassing......

Meet the new wild. Same as the old wild. We almost had a season free if the annual swoon. Snap back to reality people, this is Minnesota.

and that'll do er

G’night all. They should have played the first half of the game.

What the #### are we doing

While they may have been off since the all-star break. They've at least been competitive.

They're 5-5-1 in their last ten.

It's only really the last two that I would say they've been dog #### and been in a slump.

And for what it's worth, I'd rather it be now then down the stretch.

This is exactly the time to have it if you do. If Guerin wants to make changes or switch things up and make a move at the deadline. Now he knows he has to. If it was down the stretch, we're ####ed, because it's after the trade deadline and rosters are set. You can't make a trade to try and fix things or give the team a spark at that point.

Hey Look, we did Something

The Kings are 10-1-2 in their last 13. Guess who the "1" is against?
The Flames were 10-1 in their 11 games before the Vancouver loss. Guess who the "1" was against?

I'm so used to the Oilers being slump busters that them being winning streak busters feels.... different.

What the f*** is Kahkkonen doing on that goal ?

Gudbranson makes it 3-1

Flames outshooting the Wild 18-3.

Flames clearly pissed off about last game. Like a scrimmage out there.

f***ing L.A. and Calgary never lose anymore and badly outplay their opposition every game seemingly, except against the Oilers funny enough.

I just think the Flames are really good, I don't think it's the opposition coughing it up. The sample size of them playing at a high level is getting too large to ignore at this point.

"No question there's a penalty there" - Cassie

LMAO.

Kylington slewfooted him in the corner. He fell backwards and his skate got stuck so his leg bent backwards as he went down. Looked ugly. Not sure if he came back. The refs in this game are letting Calgary get away with murder.

You are so right man. Oilers are so much better than the flames. It's not even close. Teams play the oilers hard, and just don't show up against the flames. That's the only explanation!

Rocket Mangiopane has 27 goals and counting. He's on pace to score more goals this season than he had in total, prior to this season, in several years of being an NHL player.

He never scored close to this many in the AHL. This is so bizarre it would be like Yamamoto jumping out with a superman cloak and suddenly piling in 40 goal season.

I mean 50 games in, and Mangy has exceeded anything he's done since junior, and really is on pace for his highest ever totals, any league, and level of hockey.

f***in fLames injured Kaprizov. Dirty f***s.

I think it’s almost a given that Gaudreau is going elsewhere. They’re not going to be able to put the screws to him this time.

Christ I’m the same age as Toffoli. Why did I think he was in his thirties?