Preview & Game Thread: Blackhawks vs Wild

  

Join the rest of the staff and Rinkrats at The-Rink.com for this home game tonight.

 

Minnesota Wild (22-17-4) at Chicago Blackhawks (21-15-6)

7:00PM Central

RADIO: WGN 720

 

PROJECTED GOALIES:

Minnesota:

Devan Dubnyk (15-9-2, 2.72 GAA, .916 save%)

Chicago:

Anton Forsberg (3-5-3, 3.00 GAA, .910 save%)

 

PROJECTED LINES/PAIRINGS:

Minnesota

Zucker-Koivu-Granlund

Parise-Staal-Ennis

Eriksson Ek-Coyle-Stewart

Foligno-Cullen-Winnik

Suter-Spurgeon

Brodin-Dumba

Reilly-Prosser

Chicago

Saad-Toews-Hinostroza

Hartman-Schmaltz-Kane

Sharp-Kampf-DeBrincat

Bouma-Wingels-Panik

Keith-Oesterle

Forsling-Rutta

Murphy-Seabrook

 

STATISTICAL COMPARISONS:

Power play:

Minnesota 18.8% (17th)

Chicago 16.4% (25th)

Penalty kill:

Minnesota 82.0% (12th)

Chicago 83.2% (8th)

Corsi For % (5-on-5):

Minnesota 46.2% (31st)

Chicago 53.0% (2nd)

Faceoffs:

Minnesota 50.4% (15th)

Chicago 49.2% (22nd)

 

We’ll recap tonight or tomorrow AM. Join the conversation below!

 

 

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About Jeff Osborn

Jeff has covered the Blackhawks since 2009 with his former website www.puckinhostile.com and podcast The Puckin Hostile Shoutcast until 2017, when he moved over to The Rink. After a short hiatus to cover the inaugural Seattle Kraken season, he came back to Blackhawks coverage and started "The Net Perspective" podcast to discuss goaltending and goaltender development.

     

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