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You know, maybe Kaprisov could have benefited from being part of preseason. Maybe he owes some of his salary back for failing to be ready for the season?

He was here for all of training camp and preseason.
He is reported to be the best conditioned player on the team.
He is averaging a point a game, including setting up Ek for an OT winner.
He has a bullseye on his back every time he steps on the ice. Pretty much has a goon taking a run at him on every shift.

Was he mentally present?

There is nothing to indicate that he wasn't. More to the point, there is nothing wrong with how Kaprizov is playing. He is the focal point of every team's game plan and he is still averaging a point a game.

I'll trust bstinger on this. He says he's not as special as we were thinking.

You and stinger love country music, so your opinions mean nothing.

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He thinks KK is trying to do too much while playing with a bullseye on him. Wants to prove he is worth the contract. One will go in and then "it'll start raining goals for the kid. He's too good not to"

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From Russo:

#mnwild lines

Kaprizov-Eriksson Ek-Zuccarello
Greenway-Hartman-Foligno
Fiala-Gaudreau-Bjugstad
Duhaime-Sturm-Pitlick

Looks like Rem Pitlick will make his Wild debut and Victor Rask will be scratched vs. #canucks

I'm really sick of Fiala getting saddled with the left overs. Right now he is playing with a center who has 6 goals scattered over a 5 year career. Why not put him with Hartman and Foligno? You can't tell me those two would miss Greenway.

I think you have something there. Greenway will be the next one in the press box if he doesn't pick up his game. So far he has been a passenger on that line. Moving Fiala up with Hartman and Foligno would make that a true #2 line and our bottom 2 lines would be pretty even with that change.

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From Russo:

#mnwild lines

Kaprizov-Eriksson Ek-Zuccarello
Greenway-Hartman-Foligno
Fiala-Gaudreau-Bjugstad
Duhaime-Sturm-Pitlick

Looks like Rem Pitlick will make his Wild debut and Victor Rask will be scratched vs. #canucks

I'm really sick of Fiala getting saddled with the left overs. Right now he is playing with a center who has 6 goals scattered over a 5 year career. Why not put him with Hartman and Foligno? You can't tell me those two would miss Greenway.

I think you have something there. Greenway will be the next one in the press box if he doesn't pick up his game. So far he has been a passenger on that line. Moving Fiala up with Hartman and Foligno would make that a true #2 line and our bottom 2 lines would be pretty even with that change.

I think we need to take "line-up" and mixing duties away from Evason and give them to Sweens.
That would make me happy.

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Zuccarello and Pitlick out with a positive Covid test......
Rau, Dewar, and Lizotte called up.
If we are going to go through with a Covid run through the team like last season it may as well be now and not later in the year.

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Zuccarello and Pitlick out with a positive Covid test......
Rau, Dewar, and Lizotte called up.
If we are going to go through with a Covid run through the team like last season it may as well be now and not later in the year.

F***! [X(] Pitlick had a positive debut and he's right back out of the lineup. No doubt the worthless Rask will suit up. Let's see Crazy Eyes do something like put Fiala in Zucc's spot with Kaprizov.

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A little ditty from Russo:
Kaprizov yet again failed to win a lot of his battles. Fiala yet again was his typically careless self with the puck all game long.

After Fiala made an offensive-zone mistake and Kaprizov a defensive-zone mistake en route to Haydn Fleury’s wraparound, tie-breaking, eventual game winner in the second period, Evason split Kaprizov and Fiala and ended the short-lived experiment of even thinking of playing two high-risk players like them together.

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A little ditty from Russo:
Kaprizov yet again failed to win a lot of his battles. Fiala yet again was his typically careless self with the puck all game long.

After Fiala made an offensive-zone mistake and Kaprizov a defensive-zone mistake en route to Haydn Fleury’s wraparound, tie-breaking, eventual game winner in the second period, Evason split Kaprizov and Fiala and ended the short-lived experiment of even thinking of playing two high-risk players like them together.

I think high risk is gross mischaracterization of Kaprizov. He is usually pretty diligent in his own end of the ice.

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A little ditty from Russo:
Kaprizov yet again failed to win a lot of his battles. Fiala yet again was his typically careless self with the puck all game long.

After Fiala made an offensive-zone mistake and Kaprizov a defensive-zone mistake en route to Haydn Fleury’s wraparound, tie-breaking, eventual game winner in the second period, Evason split Kaprizov and Fiala and ended the short-lived experiment of even thinking of playing two high-risk players like them together.

I think high risk is gross mischaracterization of Kaprizov. He is usually pretty diligent in his own end of the ice.

Usually, but so far this season he has been losing a lot of the little board battles that he was winning last season.
I wonder if he is hurting some and just trying to play through it.

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Greenway on the IR with irritable bowel syndrome. Adam Beckman called up and in the lineup tonight.