Wilding Shocking of Wild in one night that could have played the playoffs: 4 takeaways

Calgary-apparently, the Minnesota Wild did not get the win-and-in reminder.

In an effort not inspired against a desperate opponent who also fought to play the playoffs, The Wild had the opportunity to win in any way on Friday evening against the flames of Calgary and play the playoffs for the eleventh time in the last 13 years.

Instead, they do not completely show while the flames have passed and exceeded them from the beginning to the end on a 4-2 victory at the Saddledome.

This means that even if the wild defeats the Vancouver Canucks on Saturday evening in the second of a back-to-back, they cannot conquer a place in the playoffs. The Wild has 93 points with two games left in the regular season. St. Louis Blues can reach 97 if the last two games win and the flames can reach 96 if each of the remaining three games win, so Saturday’s game will be full of pressure as imaginable for the wild.

If the wild wins, they will play the playoffs. But if they lose in Vancouver, they no longer control their destiny.

“(We have to come to our identity,” said the veteran Marcus Foligno. “We have not done it in the last two games. It must be something that is simply automatic. It must be simple and effective and with a rhythm and with conviction that you intend to recover the disc. And sometimes we go there and we hope that you sketch. And this is a bit like tonight. Tonight is more energetic.

Filip Gustavsson was chased by the 7:20 lens to the third period for Marc-Andre Fleury after allowing his fourth goal in 29 shots with zero support by the 18 skaters in front of him. With the 4-0 score, coach John Hynes went to the end of the bench to explain his logic and let him know that he would start the match on Saturday in Vancouver. This probably means that retired Fleury started his last NHL, at least in the regular season.

“Highly competitive game and we were the second competitive ice team,” said Hynes. “The game of San Jose (Wednesday) was a bit of a tin hockey game for us, and then we were the second most competitive team on ice tonight, so that’s not exactly what we are and what we were, but we must make sure it will be different (Saturday) night.

Yakov Trenin and Gustav Nyquist ruined Dustin Wolf’s Shutout’s offer with two insignificant goals at the end of the third.

Perhaps the eight goals that scored against sharks on Wednesday evening made them think that everyone defended themselves as San Jose. The Wild seemed that they thought the game on Friday against Calgary would be easy, but they never worn the work boots needed to beat the flames that work laborious.

They could not connect to the steps. They could not support the pressure. They have not been able to generate the possibility of a score.

There were too many passengers.

“He is disappointing,” said Mats Zuccarello, who was limping badly after the game. “Gus helped us at the beginning. We couldn’t really play, get out of our area. They blocked us in many times. We haven’t played connecting. Because? I don’t have the answer right now, but in the end, it’s not good enough. But we have to be grouped and (Saturday) is again a great game.”

Last week, when The Wild had a similar effort against the Islanders, The Wild returned home and played one of their best games in the second half in a victory over Dallas. So they have recently shown that they can bounce. It is better to do it again in Vancouver, or they will put their hopes for dangerous playoffs.

“I’m confident (we will do it),” said Hynes. “I think the last two games, it is not indicative of who we are, but the fact is that when you have a strong identity and you know what the best chance to win, when it is clear, you know what it is, but there must be a commitment for this, and for me, the last two games, the commitment to play in the way you need to win and the way we need to win at a fairly high level.

“So we have to make sure it is there (in Vancouver).”

Jared Spurgeon hurt the second period, he returns, part new

With the wild down 1-0 after a period, Captain Jared Spurgeon suffered a frightening injury in his first round of the second period when he was hit by a disc in the gorge area. He panicked immediately while trying to resume help at the center of Flames Yegor Sharangovich. In the end, one of the referees helped him on the bench and the replay showed that he was in difficulty while athletic coaches grabbed him and helped him in the medical room.

“Yes, it was a bit serious,” Sharangovich said. “I didn’t understand what was saying to me. I think it’s my English … I feel bad because I should have helped him. He (he kept me) and the referee helped him later. After, I asked what happened and said:” He lost his breath. “”

Spurgeon has lost the rest of the second period. When he returned to start the third, the savages had dropped 3-0. Spurgeon played six shifts in the third period, but he left for the good with the remaining six minutes.

Hynes indicated that it was no longer an emergency situation after the game.

“It’s always frightening,” said Foligno of records that affect that area. “I think he was becoming a little stunned, so it’s something we hope he’s well (Saturday).”

Wild bit for unformed error in the first

The Wild did not play their best hockey in the first period.

They barely had a possibility of score and the flames defended themselves terribly to the point that the wild could not support the pressure because Calgary was the first on each album and came out before Wild’s support could establish an Antecheco.

However, it seemed that the wild would come out to an unformed error at the end of the period. Gustavsson played the Joel Hanley landfill behind the net with Brock Faber who descended from the left wing and Jonas Brodin to the right of Gustavsson without pressure on him. With Faber who directs Gustavsson to move on to Brodin, Gustavsson instead sent a backhader around the Dasher beyond a faber out of position.

The album was collected by Blake Coleman, who fired attentively to the network from the wall with Gustavsson climbing. Gustavsson served a meatball and Mikael Backlund marked the rebound for an advantage 1-0.

Mikael Backlund!

The flames open the score in the first period!

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So first period followed by a second horrible

The wild made his life too easy for the flames in the second.

A weak movement of the Freddy Gaudreau line led the flames to contrast and mark Sharangovich on a deflection of a bright -appeal of Martin Possil’s innocuous appearance. So, Brodin took the first penalty of the game and Nazem Kadri scored 15 seconds in Calgary’s power game when The Wild allowed Jonathan Huberdeau to camp in front of Gustavsson’s eyes.

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It was peculiar that Hynes did not pull Gustavsson at this point to rest for Saturday’s match in Vancouver. According to the case, one wonders if he had already been promised to Fleury who would have made his last start of the regular season of the NHL against the Canucks because Fleury said a few days ago his mother and sister could fly for the game.

But now, due to the way The Wild played on Friday, that start will not start.

Simple and simple, this was a game in which the wild did not have it. You could even see him late in the second, when the wild designed consecutive games, including one five out of three abbreviated. Despite four minutes of playing time, The Wild recorded two shots on goal 3-0.

“I think in our D area D we haven’t played quickly,” said Foligno. “In a sense, we splated things and this led to a little more time o-zone for them and just a little more sloppy in the neutral area. A faster decision-making process was needed, and I thought they had it and we did not do it. So, yes, not a great response in this situation, and it is frustrating. They certainly had a better jump than us and () we paid.”

Aided Zuccarello: “We Gotta Play Connected As a Group, Help Each Other Out. Five Guys on the Forecheck, Five Guys Back. And Today We Gave Them Too Much. I Don’t Know Why, To Be Honest With You. I Don’t Think We As A Team performed to the Level That We Expect to A Game Like This, but it’s disappointing for sure.

The Plan for Zeev Buium

Subsequently for Zeev Buium after finishing as a second classified for the Hobey Baker Award on Friday evening is the official end of his university career and the signature of his three-year Entry-Lavel contract with The Wild. He should have come on Sunday.

One of the reasons is that Buium cannot be in the roster of The Wild until Cameron Crotty is returned to Iowa for hood reasons, but is traveling with Jake Middleton day by day with an injury to the upper body. Middleton skied at Calgary on Friday morning, so he is approaching and has the opportunity to play Vancouver, said Hynes.

If Spurgeon cannot play, the Wild would need Middleton to return, Crotty makes his wild debut or Buium signature and hurry to Vancouver for an arrival mid -afternoon before his debut in the NHL.

Buium, at least before Spurgeon’s disease, should have flying St. Louis to the Twin Cities on Saturday, signs from Sunday and exercised on Monday with his new wild teammates in such a way that he can make his debut in the NHL Tuesday evening against the Anaheim Ducks.

Buium, 19 years old, scored 98 points in two years in Denver and this season has scored on average 27:03 per game, the highest third in the Hockey of the NCAA Division I.

In addition, Riley Heidt, whose career in Prince George has just finished, has been assigned to the Iowa Wild for the last four games of the regular season. However, he has undergone an injury to the WHL playoffs, so he is uncertain if he will enter some game.

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