Wild 2013-14 season

[OnAFly]

From all accounts, Healtey has been taking the whole situation with a "team first" attitude. He knows he's not performing. He understands why he's on the 4th line. He goes out and plays it without complaining about it. I guess the lone bright spot of his year so far has been the fact that he's not turning it into a circus of "you can't put me on that line!"

[CaptainMusky]

Very true.

[10,000 Casts]

Heatley has has 2 decent games on that 4th line and hopefully he's improving.

So what do they do when Rupp is ready to come back? Mitchell is playing well and that 4th line is clicking, Fontain is playing like a top 6 forward so that would leave Heatley. Would you rather have Heatley or Rupp on that 4th line?

[Bear55]

Should be an interesting game tonight, Ovi found his game last season and not much has changed since then. Looks pretty dangers out with 12 goals in 13 games.

[solbes]

Would you rather have Heatley or Rupp on that 4th line?

Depends. The Danny Heatley leaning on a tennis ball walker or the Danny Heatley without? Assuming we can only the have the D.H. Walker version, I would still roll with him for a couple of games and see what happens.

Geez, I thought he was 35 or 36 based on his skating out there. Looked it up and he's only 32.

[TomWehler]

solbes

That is fun..THANKS!

Seeing the high 20s in shots is fun....huge change from past years.

Defending home ice an WINNING is fun also.

Finding the net an having fun is like the flu...it spreads easy.

Lets see where it ends up.

These points earned up front will be huge last 24 game run.

That is mostly what teams coach in the NHL nowadayz.

Young guys growing fast so could be fun come March.

Stand behind them win or lose.

Nothing good comes easy.

Greenlay still SUCKS!

Keep on rocken!

Tommy

GO LEAFS!

[10,000 Casts]

Well Suter and Parise are 28 & 29 and they are on some looooooong contracts so hopefully they don't decline near as fast.

[bbfenatic]

Well Suter and Parise are 28 & 29 and they are on some looooooong contracts so hopefully they don't decline near as fast.

I remember Heatley was in a car accident some time ago where a teammate was killed, I wonder if his injuries are now causing him issues. As far as Suter & Parise, they are not spring chickens by any means, add in Koivu and a couple others and the time is now....or wait for these young kids to mature.

[10,000 Casts]

Russo tweeted that 10-4-4 and 24 pts is the best start in Wild history.

[bbfenatic]

Russo tweeted that 10-4-4 and 24 pts is the best start in Wild history.

And they are tied for last place in the Playoff standings today.....go figure. 8th spot in the East has only 17 points. There are 4 teams with 24 points in the West so picking up a couple more wins in these next few games could propel us up to as high as even second place.

Good win last night as poorly as they played IMO....they just did not seem to have the intensity for whatever reason but a win is a win!

[TomWehler]

Wild would be WILD card if playoffs were to start now...long way to go.

Remember the whole playoff alinment has chaged from top to bottom with new divisions.

Old 1 thru 8 come one come all or everyone gets in deal is long gone now.

ALL teams losing games not getting points will weight heavy on them in end.

1 point games very improtant....silver vs gold.

These up front points will help a ton when all teams run a muck mid season or need boost in the butt last quarter.

Looken ahead now is fun but layout is very diffrent in who gets in an why... an also who plays who.

Simular maybe a bit but ...........wwell just remember to keep this in mind when thinking playoffs.

GO LEAFS!

http://www.nhl.com/ice/standings.htm?season=20132014&type=WC

[PierBridge]

Russo tweeted that 10-4-4 and 24 pts is the best start in Wild history.

Mike Yeo.... Coach of the Year favorite!!!!

Go Wild!

[OnAFly]

Two weeks after half of Wild fans were calling for his head

[yakfisher]

Not BB, he's been saying coach of the year since game 5!

[10,000 Casts]

Coach of the year if and only if they can get past the 1st rd of the playoffs.

[bbfenatic]

Not BB, he's been saying coach of the year since game 5!

Oh ya, I am thinking a "lifetime extension" is in order now ....but let's make the playoffs first

West is very tough this year, long way to go and we'll see how it all shakes out. I have to admit the melding of the Vets and quality youngsters has been impressive and Yeo has to get some credit...the depth of this team at every position except Goalie is awesome IMO...so Fletch gets even more credit.

[Hester]

Not sure how he would get coach of the year already, there are 6 teams with better records in the west alone. Plus, look what Colorado is doing this year.

[CaptainMusky]

It would be hard for Roy to not get the COY at this point, but I do think Yeo is doing a great job. We will see how the rest of the season plays out. The West is super tough. The Wild would be in 2nd place overall with a bullet in the Eastern Conference.

[fishing tech]

The Av's should be better this year, that had a ton of injuries last year and now have some nice draft picks that are playing well also.

[10,000 Casts]

Classic hockey interview by Granlund in the 2nd intermission. "We got to get da pucks to de net and ah that's how we win the game." Lol

[Hester]

Puck go down, bang ya know bafore da udder guys.

My harm go up like dis, play stop n start up again.

(slapshot)

[schmitty3]

Good win tonight. Kadri is a scumbag.

[archerystud]

Kadri better get more than a 2 game suspension. He made no attempt to miss Backstrom and through an elbow to the head of a goalie. That one alone is worth 10 in my book.

I forgot they were on last night and was watching the flyers/pens game. In the intermission of that game they were showing the leafs low lights. Announcers going on and on about someone from the Wild needed to step up and protect their players. Kind of agree we needed Konopka/Kadri moment. If theses 2 teams meet again I would expect one.

[10,000 Casts]

There are 4 players on the Leafs that would clean Konopka's clock, Orr, Mclearan, Fraser and Clarkson would all destroy him so he was put in check last night and it was obvious. We needed Rupp and he prolly would have been put in his place too. That's the difference between the East and West.

[archerystud]

Guess the Wild are done with Toronto (unless they meet in the playoffs).

Still I think this is where Heater becomes a problem. He's not scoring and he's not an enforcer. To be honest when Rupp is healthy I'd rather have him out there to take care of the Kadri's in the NHL.

It's time's like last night that I miss the Boogieman in a Wild jersey.