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  1. Don't think it's a matchup Green wants. Green likes to line match. He had Virtanen out vs Fiala for only 15 seconds.
  2. He actually said: "Not a bad idea to stay down and get a whistle too, by the way. I am not questioning his integrity here or his injury." Not sure the play would have been stopped if he didn't stay lying down. Sometimes the refs don't interrupt the play - eg Boeser having to crawl back to the bench while injured a few years back.
  3. In fairness most of those minutes were on the powerplay with 6:30 at 5v5.
  4. Maybe because Sutter had to play somewhere and Virtanen ended up being the one without a line - 3 players out and keep 9 for 3 lines. Also special teams.
  5. Lind is not part of the bubble. Teams couldn't take more than 52 people into the bubble and the Canucks elected to take 30 players rather than the maximum 31. Graovac and Bailey are the ones that made the cut. Gaudette is unfit to play per Batchelor and Toffoli is in a walking boot per TSN.
  6. Vegas got players that had good numbers but were playing lower in the lineup given who were ahead of them - Karlsson, Haula obvious examples. Haula C4 in Minnesota and Karlsson C3/C4 in Columbus became C1/C2 for Vegas. MacEwen does not have that kind of upside. Seattle is also analytics driven - even used analytics to help in their GM selection. MacEwen doesn't fare particularly well.
  7. Raanta took warmups and was subsequently announced as unfit to play. Looks like he took a puck to the head during warmups.
  8. It would have been if the Panthers paid Luongo outside of the normal pay scale for the job he took. Benning said they asked the league to verify. That's not quite what happened. It was Luongo's decision to retire. Once he decided to retire they probably encouraged him to retire rather than go on LTIR, but the initial decision to stop playing was his - or at least that's how it was communicated. https://www.nhl.com/news/roberto-luongo-about-to-tell-florida-panthers-his-plan/c-307917824 "It's totally up to Roberto," Florida general manager Dale Tallon said Thursday. "We've talked a couple of times. The decision is solely up to him. Whatever is best for him and his family. We're going to go along with whatever he decides he wants to do."
  9. No he didn't. He matched up against Eriksson Ek - the Wild's shutdown C. He played only 40 seconds against Staal. It's Pettersson and Beagle that played their top line.
  10. but the Canucks were also picking 24th - and Pastrnak went the pick just after.
  11. It is though. It's paying draft picks to another team to get out of his contract. The team could face a fine of up to 5M that counts against the cap and the loss of draft picks.
  12. The Wild are pretty poor at face-offs - 59% for Vancouver to 41% last night. Staal went 32% and it was the primary line Pettersson played against.
  13. Staal plays with Greenway. Before the break Getzlaf went to fight him and ended up on the ice. Greenway did not have a hit last night per the game stats. He is a beast when he plays physical but does not do it consistently - not sure they should poke the bear if he's playing tame. The Wild lines under Evason are very balanced - defensive forward, size and scoring on all lines. Evason says he doesn't really worry about line matchups, for him it's more important to get their D-pairings against who they want. The Wild lines/pairings are the same as at the end of the regular season. Green had ample time to game plan. Will be interesting to see if he adjusts or just considers this game a warmup game.
  14. From 1 November onwards the Wild were the 2nd highest scoring team in the league in goals for per game. They were the 3rd lowest in October. Even over the full season they were the 6th highest scoring team at 5v5. Canucks are 17th at 5v5. October is not reflective of their team. They had several issues to work through before they could start doing anything and their younger players had to progress. Fiala for example was a healthy scratch a few times in October and only had 1 assist in 8 games. He's now leading their team in scoring and is turning into the game breaker Fenton described. Their team changed a lot over this season. Same players (save Zucker/Galchenyuk) but roles and responsibilities/usage is very different from the first half of the season. Even their PP is different. I would think that Green put more emphasis on the 2nd half.
  15. The Wild are 6th in the league in 5v5 goals. They have scored 15 more 5v5 goals than the Canucks while allowing also 5 less. By end of December their PP was 20th in the league at 17.8%. Fiala moved up to the 1st unit sometime in early 2020. From 1 January onwards they were 4th at 26.4%.
  16. @Moose Nuckle At the 1:10 mark: "I think the Zucker fight quite frankly sparked us a lot."
  17. Not my narrative. It's a Boudreau quote in his post-game. Do you want to listen to it?
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