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WIld vs. Hawks

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Chicago Tribune's Chris kuc off of Russo's blog

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“When they play like they want to, they can score four or five goals a night and keep it out of their net with maybe one of the best defensemen in the league [in Suter]. It’s a dangerous team. You definitely have to be careful with them. They’re a team that I’ve watched throughout the year and it seems like one night they look like the best team in the NHL and the next night they look like they don’t even want to be out there.”

Hawks is 5

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Hawks in 6. I figure one game Backstrom stands on his head. And one game we put it together offensively.

And I would be okay with a competitive series like that. Hard to expect more when we line up against the best team in the league.

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In other news the Wild also called up Scandella and he might even be paired with Spurgeon the first game. Normally calling up a guy who spent all year in the AHL for your first playoff game is bad but when you look at the rest of our D I don't think this hurts us one bit.

http://wild.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=668246&navid=DL|MIN|home

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Hiya -

Nice to see some playoff hockey eh?

I will say again what I've said since the day the lockout ended...this season is a learning experience for the Wild.

I heard a really interesting interview with Denis Potvin this morning, and he really went into detail about just how valuable playoff experience, and specifically playing against a really good team can be for developing a winning team. He said the playoff series' the Islanders had against the Canadiens, even though they got thumped, were what made the Isles the team they eventually became - with 4 Cups to show for it.

We're a young team without much playoff experience - even guys who've been here a while like Clutterbuck have never made the post season - and getting guys like Coyle, Zucker, and basically their entire D corps aside from Suter some experience will do them a world of good in the long run. Look at it that way, and it might be great playing a powerhouse like the Hawks even if it's not pretty in the short term. The Habs were a dynasty when the Isles played them.

Scandella - I like it. Part of why he hadn't been up here earlier was he was hurt off and on most of the season (groin and wrist injuries) but he's healthy and apparently was very good with Houston in the end of their regular season and start of the playoffs. He's big, mobile, and has a little bit of an edge. I'd take him over Falk.

Should be a fun series either way, but I'm still saying Hawks in 5.

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Great point RK, even if we get smoked this will be a valuable experience for future teams.

Not sure why but I kind of have a feeling the Wild might steal one tonight, hope I am right. If we want to at least make this series interesting we need to take a game in Chicago today or Friday.

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I'm with you especially playoff experience in hockey, guys do bust their butt, it is the sport where it's all to obvious if someone has checked out on the team or whatever, they will play hard and learn a ton and hopefully our goal looks about 2by3 feet to the hawks, then Kane gets a groin pull and Seabrook eats some bad seafood and this little o series just tightened up a bit. Glad we scratched our way in, now to play a good game tonight, PS. Chicago has in my opinion the best National Anthem singer in the world, enjoy that tonight and if you can't wait and have a good stereo/speakers....you tube Jim Cornelison and expect to be blown away, that guy lost some serious weight in the last couple years.

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