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kevinemmer -> RE: Minnesota Wild 2021 Season / Game Day (3/26/2021 9:58:17 AM)
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ORIGINAL: TJSweens
Cannot emphasize strongly enough the difference goaltending makes. After 20 years of Manny Moments, Backs Blunders and Duby Duh-ohs, we have two legitimate #1 goalies. Guys who will win games like last night's. I guarantee you that there is no way in hell NTG steals that game for us last night.
The only way the Wild were going to win last night was an effective counter punching game. They were gassed after playing a lot of games in not that many days. The scoring chances were going to be limited to counter strikes, which meant the goalie was going to have to be rock solid. To the Wild's credit, they kept the Blues to the perimeter of the zone, most of the time. For all the shots and zone time, the Blues didn't get a lot of great scoring chances. Talbot made all the saves, gave up very few rebounds and those few rebounds invariably got swept out to the boards. Dubes would have cracked in the first period and had us playing behind.
Like I said, you can't emphasize enough how strong goaltending transforms a team.
Good stuff Sweens.
Our team Defense was really good, along with Talbot.
I actually enjoyed watching Dumba out there for a change.
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