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RE: Wild 2025-26 Season - 11/10/2025 4:28:50 PM

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Yeah, and the Gophers beat Notre Dame, which counts for two stars.

I just checked the college hockey rankings and very saddened to see that St. Cloud State is only 25th and the University of Minnesota wasn't even in the others receiving votes. What the hell has happened.

Early....hockey just started.

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RE: Wild 2025-26 Season - 11/12/2025 10:09:04 AM

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MN Nice!

Big Strib headline "Wild shore up D"

off to the side: "Wild lose 2-1 to the crappy Sharks"

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RE: Wild 2025-26 Season - 11/12/2025 12:19:06 PM

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Nobody can polish a turd like the strib.

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RE: Wild 2025-26 Season - 11/17/2025 7:58:01 AM

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Don't look now, but the Wild have quietly gotten on a roll. After beating Vegas in It last night they are 6-1-1 in their last 8. Jesper Wallstedt has pitched back shut outs in his last 2 and is now 4-0-2 with a 2.10 GAA and .924 save percentage. The team appears to have adopted the counter punching style of the Jaques Lemaire era.

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RE: Wild 2025-26 Season - 11/17/2025 8:19:43 AM

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If they keep it up we will stay in the mushy middle with another chance to be one and done in the playoffs and draft in the middle rounds once again. Yippee.....

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RE: Wild 2025-26 Season - 11/17/2025 4:10:47 PM

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If they keep it up we will stay in the mushy middle with another chance to be one and done in the playoffs and draft in the middle rounds once again. Yippee.....

Forced to play to rookies too as Rossi is out. Ohgren and Yurov in.

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RE: Wild 2025-26 Season - 11/17/2025 5:26:37 PM

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I'm liking the OV97 that we seemed to have found when up a man lately!

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RE: Wild 2025-26 Season - 11/18/2025 8:15:37 AM

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If they keep it up we will stay in the mushy middle with another chance to be one and done in the playoffs and draft in the middle rounds once again. Yippee.....

What should they do? Lose and get a real good draft pick?

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RE: Wild 2025-26 Season - 11/18/2025 8:16:22 AM

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Don't look now, but the Wild have quietly gotten on a roll. After beating Vegas in It last night they are 6-1-1 in their last 8. Jesper Wallstedt has pitched back shut outs in his last 2 and is now 4-0-2 with a 2.10 GAA and .924 save percentage. The team appears to have adopted the counter punching style of the Jaques Lemaire era.

I might start paying attention to hockey for real now.

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RE: Wild 2025-26 Season - 11/18/2025 8:20:16 AM

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Don't look now, but the Wild have quietly gotten on a roll. After beating Vegas in It last night they are 6-1-1 in their last 8. Jesper Wallstedt has pitched back shut outs in his last 2 and is now 4-0-2 with a 2.10 GAA and .924 save percentage. The team appears to have adopted the counter punching style of the Jaques Lemaire era.

I might start paying attention to hockey for real now.

They need another finisher or two...they move the puck well enough but outside of Boldy and KK.....they just don't have enough firepower. Rossi playing hurt the last 5 games didn't help either.

The SJ game was the epitome of this....they outshot 2-1 and outplayed them in a way that it seemed they were camped on their end but couldn't get more than 1 goal.

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RE: Wild 2025-26 Season - 11/18/2025 9:14:58 AM

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Don't look now, but the Wild have quietly gotten on a roll. After beating Vegas in It last night they are 6-1-1 in their last 8. Jesper Wallstedt has pitched back shut outs in his last 2 and is now 4-0-2 with a 2.10 GAA and .924 save percentage. The team appears to have adopted the counter punching style of the Jaques Lemaire era.

I might start paying attention to hockey for real now.

They need another finisher or two...they move the puck well enough but outside of Boldy and KK.....they just don't have enough firepower. Rossi playing hurt the last 5 games didn't help either.

The SJ game was the epitome of this....they outshot 2-1 and outplayed them in a way that it seemed they were camped on their end but couldn't get more than 1 goal.

We need more than a couple of finishers to compete with the top teams. As constructed right now we have 1 top line and 3 lines consisting of bottom 6 at best players. We can hang with the bottom half of the league and occasionally top teams, but come playoff time we are done. As we have seen over and over the last few years it takes everyrhing we have just to make the playoffs and have nothing left once we get there.

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RE: Wild 2025-26 Season - 11/18/2025 9:18:17 AM

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Don't look now, but the Wild have quietly gotten on a roll. After beating Vegas in It last night they are 6-1-1 in their last 8. Jesper Wallstedt has pitched back shut outs in his last 2 and is now 4-0-2 with a 2.10 GAA and .924 save percentage. The team appears to have adopted the counter punching style of the Jaques Lemaire era.

I might start paying attention to hockey for real now.

They need another finisher or two...they move the puck well enough but outside of Boldy and KK.....they just don't have enough firepower. Rossi playing hurt the last 5 games didn't help either.

The SJ game was the epitome of this....they outshot 2-1 and outplayed them in a way that it seemed they were camped on their end but couldn't get more than 1 goal.

We need more than a couple of finishers to compete with the top teams. As constructed right now we have 1 top line and 3 lines consisting of bottom 6 at best players. We can hang with the bottom half of the league and occasionally top teams, but come playoff time we are done. As we have seen over and over the last few years it takes everyrhing we have just to make the playoffs and have nothing left once we get there.

I don't agree.
We have 2 top lines with a healthy Rossi.

Top teams have 3 scoring lines.

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RE: Wild 2025-26 Season - 11/18/2025 10:03:06 PM

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We don't have 2 top lines. With a healthy Rossi, we have maybe 4 legit top 6 forwards in KK, Boldy, Rossi and JEE. Guys like Zuccarello and Johansson are middle and bottom 6 slotting up and Tarasenko is just a has been.

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RE: Wild 2025-26 Season - 11/19/2025 12:04:54 PM

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We don't have 2 top lines. With a healthy Rossi, we have maybe 4 legit top 6 forwards in KK, Boldy, Rossi and JEE. Guys like Zuccarello and Johansson are middle and bottom 6 slotting up and Tarasenko is just a has been.

I remember the days when Tarasenko was flat out scary.

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RE: Wild 2025-26 Season - 11/19/2025 1:55:05 PM

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We don't have 2 top lines. With a healthy Rossi, we have maybe 4 legit top 6 forwards in KK, Boldy, Rossi and JEE. Guys like Zuccarello and Johansson are middle and bottom 6 slotting up and Tarasenko is just a has been.

None of the teams with 3 scoring lines have 9 top 6 guys. I will also add that Johansen and Hartman at times show top 6....but anyway we are 1 line short....1 to 2 players IMO.

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RE: Wild 2025-26 Season - 11/19/2025 4:07:04 PM

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We will ask ChatGPT:

Is it fair to say that the MN WIld have two good scoring lines while the Top NHL Teams have 3 scoring lines?

Is the Statement Fair? Yes, it's a fair assessment. The Wild have two potent scoring lines (Kaprizov/Boldy and Zuccarello/Rossi/Tarasenko) that can dominate matchups, but their depth drops off sharply—the 3rd line is solid defensively but rarely generates 5v5 offense at elite rates (e.g., <2.0 goals/60 last season). In contrast, top teams like Tampa, Vegas, and Florida roll three lines that all threaten offensively, allowing them to wear down opponents and sustain performance over 82 games/playoffs. This depth gap contributed to Minnesota's 97 points (playoff miss) vs. the top teams' 105-116 last year.If the Wild's young depth (e.g., Ohgren, Yurov) breaks out or injuries stay low, they could close the gap—but as of now, the critique holds.

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RE: Wild 2025-26 Season - 11/20/2025 8:47:24 AM

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We don't have 2 top lines. With a healthy Rossi, we have maybe 4 legit top 6 forwards in KK, Boldy, Rossi and JEE. Guys like Zuccarello and Johansson are middle and bottom 6 slotting up and Tarasenko is just a has been.

None of the teams with 3 scoring lines have 9 top 6 guys. I will also add that Johansen and Hartman at times show top 6....but anyway we are 1 line short....1 to 2 players IMO.

I'm not talking about 9 top 6 players. I'm talking about having 6 top 6 players. And no, there is no universe Hartman and Johansson are top 6 players. The Wild routinely slot them there because of a lack of other options.

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RE: Wild 2025-26 Season - 11/20/2025 8:52:27 AM

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We will ask ChatGPT:

Is it fair to say that the MN WIld have two good scoring lines while the Top NHL Teams have 3 scoring lines?

Is the Statement Fair? Yes, it's a fair assessment. The Wild have two potent scoring lines (Kaprizov/Boldy and Zuccarello/Rossi/Tarasenko) that can dominate matchups, but their depth drops off sharply—the 3rd line is solid defensively but rarely generates 5v5 offense at elite rates (e.g., <2.0 goals/60 last season). In contrast, top teams like Tampa, Vegas, and Florida roll three lines that all threaten offensively, allowing them to wear down opponents and sustain performance over 82 games/playoffs. This depth gap contributed to Minnesota's 97 points (playoff miss) vs. the top teams' 105-116 last year.If the Wild's young depth (e.g., Ohgren, Yurov) breaks out or injuries stay low, they could close the gap—but as of now, the critique holds.

Just for fun I asked ChatGPT for current Minnesota Wild rumors. Did you know that Kaprizov turned down the Wild's most recent contract offer and the Wild may ask him for a trade list? Also, they can't seem to close the gap in negotiations with Rossi and may have to trade him too.

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RE: Wild 2025-26 Season - 11/20/2025 9:40:19 AM

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The Wild won again despite being out shot 43-18. Wallstedt was outstanding again, making 43 saves between game and shootout.

Daniela Yurov moved up to center the top line and picked up 2 assists.

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RE: Wild 2025-26 Season - 11/20/2025 10:23:09 AM

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I only stayed up for the 1st period and things were looking good score wise, but the Canes were controlling the play all along. Wally looks so calm in the net and is always in position for the puck to hit him and he just gobbles up the puck with few rebounds. Yurov looked pretty good on the top line considering it was a big jump for him. He should be in the top 6 soon which will allow Ek to be the guy always checking the other teams top center.

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