2024-25 Wild Season

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GopherJake said:
That is not "physical". That is dirty. McDavid's play was not dirty in my opinion. He was only trying to hinder Johannsson from getting to the puck carrier. A very, very common tactic in hockey. He just clipped him in a bad spot. Should have been a penalty, but I can see how they missed it. NHL hockey is a fast game.
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An elbow to the face?
 




GopherJake said:
It wasn’t a haymaker. Maybe I’m giving too much credit, but I’ve faced worse in beer league. A lot worse.
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Well he got a concussion from it. Those elbow pads they wear are hard as a rock unlike mine which are 40 years old held together with tape
 


TRF Guy said:
Well he got a concussion from it. Those elbow pads they wear are hard as a rock unlike mine which are 40 years old held together with tape
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Yeah. I made that exact point with a buddy of mine today at lunch. They pack a punch.
 

TRF Guy said:
Well he got a concussion from it. Those elbow pads they wear are hard as a rock unlike mine which are 40 years old held together with tape
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I can see why some folks thought Johansson embellished but the unfortunate concusssion says otherwise
 





Ogee Ogilthorpe said:
McJesus is a whiny bitch and not a clean player by any stretch.

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After the hit, no one challenged McDavid, no enforcer to let Edmonton know we wouldn't be pushed around. I get he's their star, but he used a cheap hit to send one of guys to the locker room. I didn't see anyone even line him into the boards.
 

Full Speed Ahead said:
After the hit, no one challenged McDavid, no enforcer to let Edmonton know we wouldn't be pushed around. I get he's their star, but he used a cheap hit to send one of guys to the locker room. I didn't see anyone even line him into the boards.
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The score was 3-3 at the time against a conference rival. The only non-moronic time to do something like that would have been with less than a minute to play when we were down by 2.
 

It's not the Wild, but this is just plain awesome. Tear to the eye awesome, especially if you can read her lips on a few occasions; "I can't believe it", "I'm so proud of you"...

 

I am admittedly not a big hockey fan - but I do follow Michael Russo on Twitter to at least keep up with Wild news.

and the juggling the Wild has to do with the salary cap is just nuts. I know the NHL has a tight salary cap - but every day Russo is posting these updates where players are going on and off the roster every day just so the Wild can save a few bucks against the salary cap.

and these LTIR rules are.................byzantine.

here is an explanation I found online:

  • If a team is cap compliant on opening day without using LTIR, or uses LTIR at any point during the season, the LTIR Pool is the Cap Hit of the LTIR player less the team’s cap space when the player goes on LTIR. For example, if a player with a $4M Cap Hit goes on LTIR when the team has $100K of Cap Space, the LTIR pool is $3.9M ($4M-$0.1M). Because of this, team’s often make several roster moves right before a player goes on LTIR in order to be as close to the cap as possible, in order to maximize the LTIR Pool
  • If a team cannot be cap compliant on opening day without using LTIR, the LTIR Pool is the amount the team exceeds the Cap. For example, if a team is $3M over the Cap and places a player on LTIR with a $4M Cap Hit for the opening roster submission, the LTIR Pool is the $3M that the team exceeded the cap
  • While on LTIR, Cap Space is no longer accrued, meaning any portion of the LTIR pool not used cannot be used later.
  • When a player comes off LTIR, the team’s annual cap hit for that day must be under the Cap
I'm not smart enough to be a hockey fan.
 



short ornery norwegian said:
I am admittedly not a big hockey fan - but I do follow Michael Russo on Twitter to at least keep up with Wild news.

and the juggling the Wild has to do with the salary cap is just nuts. I know the NHL has a tight salary cap - but every day Russo is posting these updates where players are going on and off the roster every day just so the Wild can save a few bucks against the salary cap.

and these LTIR rules are.................byzantine.

here is an explanation I found online:

  • If a team is cap compliant on opening day without using LTIR, or uses LTIR at any point during the season, the LTIR Pool is the Cap Hit of the LTIR player less the team’s cap space when the player goes on LTIR. For example, if a player with a $4M Cap Hit goes on LTIR when the team has $100K of Cap Space, the LTIR pool is $3.9M ($4M-$0.1M). Because of this, team’s often make several roster moves right before a player goes on LTIR in order to be as close to the cap as possible, in order to maximize the LTIR Pool
  • If a team cannot be cap compliant on opening day without using LTIR, the LTIR Pool is the amount the team exceeds the Cap. For example, if a team is $3M over the Cap and places a player on LTIR with a $4M Cap Hit for the opening roster submission, the LTIR Pool is the $3M that the team exceeded the cap
  • While on LTIR, Cap Space is no longer accrued, meaning any portion of the LTIR pool not used cannot be used later.
  • When a player comes off LTIR, the team’s annual cap hit for that day must be under the Cap
I'm not smart enough to be a hockey fan.
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I have no clue about that stuff and don't care to learn. Leave that to the smart guys 😎

Wheels are starting to fall off a bit. Preds demolish the boys 6-2 tonight. Played well enough for awhile since Kap and others went down but that has seemed to fade away now. To Denver next
 



Wally said:
Hopefully they play well tomorrow, I'll be there.
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It will be very interesting to see how they do tomorrow. I really hope they get a win - that would be quite a feat! Since they don't play until Thursday........ ;)
 

Spurgeon and Kaprizov could play tomorrow. Hynes said he's cautiously optimistic
 

Late to the party here, but can we officially say Gus is slumping? Not giving us a chance to win tonight. Meanwhile, tons of O-zone time, but can't put the biscuit in the basket.

Also, Gaudreau never, ever scores.......
 

GopherJake said:
Late to the party here, but can we officially say Gus is slumping? Not giving us a chance to win tonight. Meanwhile, tons of O-zone time, but can't put the biscuit in the basket.

Also, Gaudreau never, ever scores.......
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I had puck practice tonight and missed it. Yeah Gus has been struggling. Did he leak a few easy ones?
 

TRF Guy said:
I had puck practice tonight and missed it. Yeah Gus has been struggling. Did he leak a few easy ones?
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One was brutal. Fluttering shot that was going about 10 mph. All he had to do was wall up. Instead he kicked his pad out lazily (or severely misjudging the speed) and a "Utah" (what the hell am I supposed to call him?) caught a piece of it and it fluttered over his pad. Terrible. 4-0 with one goal reversed on a challenge of goalie interference (the correct call).
 

GopherJake said:
One was brutal. Fluttering shot that was going about 10 mph. All he had to do was wall up. Instead he kicked his pad out lazily (or severely misjudging the speed) and a "Utah" (what the hell am I supposed to call him?) caught a piece of it and it fluttered over his pad. Terrible. 4-0 with one goal reversed on a challenge of goalie interference (the correct call).
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Maybe have Fleury play the 2 of 3. Goalies are such a different breed. I've coached probably 50 or so over the years and the majority were just a bit different in a goofy way.
How did Spurgeon and Kaprizov look?
 

TRF Guy said:
Maybe have Fleury play the 2 of 3. Goalies are such a different breed. I've coached probably 50 or so over the years and the majority were just a bit different in a goofy way.
How did Spurgeon and Kaprizov look?
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Spurgeon looked solid. Kaprizov flashed and definitely could have scored a couple times, but understandably wasn't on the same page with guys. Hynes juggled the lines after the first period. There wasn't much jump early. Last 2/3 we controlled the puck, but couldn't score. Utah's PK is 90% and we went 0-fer on 3 chances, even though we controlled the action. Kaprizov played only 16:39, so is obviously being eased in.

Folignio looked good. Boldy was quiet. E-Ek was quiet. Zucc and Faber had a couple Grade A- chances. Ohgren looked good to me. Fourth liners looked good tonight, but they need to start chipping in some goals.
 

GopherJake said:
Spurgeon looked solid. Kaprizov flashed and definitely could have scored a couple times, but understandably wasn't on the same page with guys. Hynes juggled the lines after the first period. There wasn't much jump early. Last 2/3 we controlled the puck, but couldn't score. Utah's PK is 90% and we went 0-fer on 3 chances, even though we controlled the action. Kaprizov played only 16:39, so is obviously being eased in.

Folignio looked good. Boldy was quiet. E-Ek was quiet. Zucc and Faber had a couple Grade A- chances. Ohgren looked good to me. Fourth liners looked good tonight, but they need to start chipping in some goals.
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Thanks for the recap Jake
 



Wild up 3-0 after 2. I go to watch some football and now it's 3-2 halfway through the third
 


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