I don't know if anyone else noticed but during Lomberg tuning in the Wild player ,Pelletier was just barking at him . He was really just giving it to the wild player or hyping Lomberg up but it was boarderline rabid when no othe player was really yapping.
He was just going off.
Can someone with better editing skills post a gif. Of the fight to show this?
Great to get these 2 points. Will be in tough against Winnipeg tomorrow especially after losing Bahl. But this team continues to surprise. Will be a real test for the next few weeks if Bahl is out for that time. It’s tough enough for this team to out-work teams every night (which they do)… to add significant injuries up front (Zary) and on the defence (Bahl) is even more adversity to face. The way they play though, they may just continue surprising and push through.
Something important about this team is that, more often than not, they do seem to set the tone or style of the game. By that I mean, they force teams to play their game. Very tight-checking and little speed through the neutral zone. I mean that in the most positive way. It shows strong coaching and complete buy-in from the players. A team comes in and wants to out-skill the flames but the flames don’t let them. They take away so much space and are so relentless that the flames negate any potential talent deficit against teams. Obviously this may not happen every night or all game but for the vast majority of games (even ones the flames may lose), teams are forced to play a game dictated by the flames.
You go watch a Chicago game or a San Jose game or a Montreal game - it’s so much time and space out there for players on both sides. No tight checking. It’s just endless skill plays. Which can work if you have skill (Montreal has a decent amount) but doesn’t work at all if you don’t have the skill (Chicago).
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Hynes has been good about getting this team to respond after a bad loss.
Plus it hockey day.. the Wild wouldn’t make us suffer with a loss on hockey day would they?
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Do you not remember the outdoor game a few years ago?
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We lost like 6-1
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If Gus can make five stops before giving one up, I feel good about this game. Let’s put away a middling team.
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HAPPY HOCKEY DAY MINNESOTA
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Happy Hockey Day Minnesota to all of you. We usually play pretty well on this day, and we need to play a whole heck of a lot better than last game. Let's do it!
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#### it's hockey day so we gotta win
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Don't jinx it buddy
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I'm here! Happy Hockey Day Minnesota to everyone but the guy who blocked the baking aisle with his cart while he called his wife to ask which brownie mix to buy
North Star Retros
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I understand the legacy, but I can’t stand these uniforms.
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sponsored by Subway
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holy #### you guys, with both teams jerseys i'm literally having flashbacks to childhood playing NES Blades of Steel .... anyone else???
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Okay so I live in CO; rarely get to watch the wild.; just recaps/condensed But 2 things: There HAS to be someone in Iowa who can allow us to f’ing drop Merrill like a hot spud
And two: as an old guy, I personally like the retro North Stars jerseys. But I’d love to see their record when they wear them because I swear it seems they lose nearly every game when the do
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They better be ready to play this time. Last game was painful. Stay out of the box, short shifts and SHOOT THE f***ING PUCK!
Kuzmenko with a tip
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#### me
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#### it was looking so solid
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Make it a one penalty night, OK Mids?
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Come onnnnn
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Sloppy game so far. Pathetic PK is back.
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God damn it, this ####ing PK is such a joke
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Fix the pk Holy ####
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen a worse penalty kill than ours
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Get a new plot line writers the pk getting scored on every time is getting old
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So close to getting the PK
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Middleton is up in scoring but still gets exposed too much to be playing top 4 minutes 5 on 5. Merill and Bogosian playing pk is a regular disaster
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4 and #24 ain’t it.
They can’t even handle even strength. Why do they insist on using them on the PK.
The Darryl Strat
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Still #### on home ice.....
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I feel bad for the fans who are spending their hard earned money to watch this team play like #### at home
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Next season for home games we can’t let them actually go home. They need to stay at a ####ty Best Western or something.
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I'm not an nhl player, but I did stay at a holiday inn Express last night
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Just make them a traveling team or something.
Popsicle breaks the slump
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Win a damn faceoff
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WHY WOULD YOU PASS THAT??
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Fuuuuuuuuuck.
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Leaving Flower out to dry there....saved yalls ass twice and still cant ####ing figure it out
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Absolute shambles.
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Wow that was a nice play by Pospisil, Fleury needs the D to help him on that one
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That was ugly. The breakaway is one thing, but the inability to setup with anything resembling a defense is a tough look.
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What the #### was Middleton doing skating behind fleury in the crease? Did he lose his ####ing brain there?
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Play MN at home and get your cookies. Even Pospisil got one tonight
Save us Kirill, Pt II : Kirill Returns
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I turn on the game with 4 minutes left in the first, within 5 seconds a player centers the puck and i see moves wild players doesn't do. Oh it's Kaprizov, he's back! Blessed be our boy.
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Smith reports Ek between Kirill and Zuccy, and Rossi between Ohgren and Boldy.
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How is it that we've looked worse with the injured guys back?
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My brother in Kaprizus don't ever say Zuccarella again unless you are making fun of ESPN.
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Kaprizov, I love you, but please never stop Kadri from falling to the ice again.
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Dear baby boy kaprizus, please go off for two and and apple.
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When folks said we'd be a wagon with Kaprizov and Spurgeon, it wasn't supposed to be a covered wagon where we all die from dysentery.
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Criminal that we haven't seen a kap, rossi, zucc reunion
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Minus Kaprisov, we are not a talented enough team to be tic tac toeing all of our goals. This team needs to have 30+ shots on goal in order to win. The players on this team are overly confident in their passing and skating skills.
Bahl in the Numbers
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What the #### Lauko
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Probably a major but Bahl also turned into that
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Dumb ####in hit man
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Yikes. Not ok with that hit at all. wtf.
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That could have been so much worse for Grapes
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Legit impressed by how the ref managed to rattle that off without stuttering.
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I’m very surprised that wasn’t a major.
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It should be. It needs to be discouraged as much as possible.
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I can't pretend that I wouldnt be pissed if that was a minor if things were the other way around
Punch Goalie, Staredown Goal
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DONT PUNCH OUR FLOWER
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Wow straight gonna pop grandpa Fleury in the face? That's not gonna end well. Think someone just activated our moose card.
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OH NO HE ####ING DIDNT
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I feel like I'm in an abusive relationship
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I cannot even deal with the cowardice to let that #### punch Flower and do nothing about it.
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Moose better ####ing truck Anderson to another dimension
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ELDER ABUSE!!
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LET FLEURY FIGHT
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Jesus Christ.. it’s like our entire system just fell apart. The #### are these guys doing?
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GOD DAMN IT #### THAT GUY
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Of course it was Anderson....####ing pathetic
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Everyone's favourite Flame scores and gives the Andersson Death Stare to a random Minnesota fan.
Ouch.
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Guy who shouldn't even be in the game scores. Sheesh
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The Wild are a disaster in the D zone right now
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Are those people really adults? What a bitch ass move by that manchild Andersson. I have met his father, he's just as big of an ####### as him.
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What the #### was that
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Damn, that is not how karma is supposed to work!
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Dude our D is the one ####ing everything up lately. They’ve been so out of position on every ####ing rush for the last two games.. and what is usually a simple rush that gets shut down quickly, turns into like a super high danger chance cause our D just look so ####ing clueless all of a sudden. Drives me ####ing crazy
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We’re not even in the 3rd lmao
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This team is such horse#### at home. If this continues expect an epic collapse and they will be lucky to be the 2nd wildcard after March when they play mostly at home. Unreal
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Getting embarrassed at home in back to back games what a joke
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####ing pathetic.. nobody ####ing looks like they have any confidence and everyone keeps second guessing and losing a step in what should be a standard play. Look so ####ing clueless right now
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Fleury is absolutely going to kill that dude later, I saw it in his eyes. Idk if it will be for punching him in the mask or for scoring on him, but that dude needs to watch his gear bag at the very least
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Next 20 is gonna tell us what kind of team they are.
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Next 20 is Calgary probably getting another one or two. I was wrong to place this on our goaltenders. It’s 100% our complete inability to defend, and because we can’t defend they get tons of excellent chances and we barely get a shot from the ####ing blue line.
Cap’n Clark!
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Can this team get a true captain who will get the team to sac up and respond.
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We are so ####ing dog#### at home. This is an embarrassment to the fans
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I miss happiness
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Is this how our season ends? Just getting our asses blown out by every mid team in the league?
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lol wild remembered they are the wild apparently
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IT ISNT. ####ING. LEGAL. TO LOSE ON HOCKEY DAY! FIGURE IT THE #### OUT!
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Our defense is non existent and the offense is only marginally more present. Not sure what’s going on with them, but they’re running out of excuses.
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It’s one thing to be horse#### on home ice. It’s a whole other level to be horse#### and let the away team mog your youth fans after they score.
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Team is so upset that they let the guy who punched fleury score on him and then stare down the fans. Maybe we don’t need “upset” then
Kuzmenko with his 2nd
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I guess a comeback is theoretically possible. Edit: Nevermind
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I thought the same thing lol
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What the actual #### lmao
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I hate how many times this team has allowed a goal right after they score
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Jesus what is this team doing!!! Like wtf
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Name a better duo than no name players having all star performances and the Wild
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Good god.
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Take a shot every time Zucc tries to force a pass through the entire Flames team.
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This team just straight up sucks right now
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my liquor budget isn't that large
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Start issuing refunds. This is pathetic
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oh guys the banshee has a new phrase! “get it wild! take it away!”
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Middleton pinching in doing nothing leading to another odd man rush
Hold on to Yer Butts!
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Only takes until ten minutes left in a game to start trying to hit the net
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Foligno scores. Yay. Too little, too late.
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Okay. I’m interested
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YAAAAAAAY! A THING!
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Yay. I’m just a little bit less enraged
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It is too late for me to be excited about that
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Again. Too little to late
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HOLDUP
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SUDDENLY IM HAVING A LOT OF FUN
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HOCKEY DAY Miracle?!
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THE DRAMA, let's gooooo
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Cool, wait until the last 2 minutes to care....good job on the stat padding
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WHAT?
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Why was that not icing
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Absurd no-icing call
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Bailed out on icing
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Linesman deciding that probability is more important than reality. ####ing goober decided he wanted to go home more than he wanted to call a fair game. Hope he takes a puck to the nuts
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Holy #### that linesman needs to be ####ing fired
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At least the score looks better
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Congrats on working just hard enough to avoid getting booed off the ice at the end
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BRB, gonna hop in the shower fully clothed with a bottle of whiskey and put Alice In Chains' Nutshell on repeat.
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I’m curious at all if Hynes actually rips into the team or just stares at em blankly like he does his interviews
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That 5th goal allowed pissed me off. I just hate it when they give up a goal right after scoring one of their own - and if course it ended up being the game-winning goal for the Flames. Maybe this 5-game road trip will be good for this team, since they clearly can't do #### at home
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Glad to see they weren't completely dead at the end but I just don't understand where that was all ####ing game.
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Great win! Couldn't watch but saw the highlights. Lomberg is such a beauty. Next game against Minny Lauko needs his *ss kicked again. Once isn't enough.
