Will The Wild Stick With Rookie Goaltender After Allowing Eight In Game 1?
After a chaotic nine-goal collapse against Colorado, Minnesota faces a high-stakes crease conundrum. Coach John Hynes must decide if Jesper Wallstedt can rebound or if Filip Gustavsson returns.
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Would you give me in terms of the expectation of that type of series and what the kind of maybe defining element will be?
I think this is gonna be a really tight series because I think about the high-end players involved.
Yeah.
If you look up front with the forwards, like Na- if you had a draft of just Colorado and Minnesota players, Nathan MacKinnon is going first when it comes to forwards, and then it's probably at this point Boldy, but then you got- Yeah Martines as well on Colorado.
and obviously you have Kaprizov.
Like it's gonna be pretty close up front, but I would still give the edge to Colorado.
On defense, you have Cale Makar versus Quinn Hughes.
Right.
That's a coin flip.
In net, I mean, Walstead is like super hot right now.
Mm-hmm.
So I- does Minnesota have a bit of an edge?
But I mean, Scott Wedgewood hasn't done anything wrong in Colorado.
Right.
he was very good.
I know, right?
Right?
So I, I, I know we said this about Minnesota's first series, but I do think this one could go seven.
Mm-hmm.
It's gonna come down to the coaching, Ryan.
Right.
Mm-hmm.
Is John Hynes a better coach than Jared Bednar?
And, you know, I, I kind of agree with you.
Like, this is, this is gonna be the marquee matchup, and this is probably gonna be closer to what we were expecting, when we were talking about Dallas versus Minnesota.
I think Minnesota versus Colorado arguably might be the best series that we ever see in these playoffs when you look at the teams that are remaining right now.
Right.
So I like it as well.
I think it might even come down to who has the more, who has more depth up front because what we see in the playoff is top lines cancel each other out, and the- Yeah second sometimes cancel each other out, and it's like, all right, it's a battle of who's got the best bottom six.
So, you know, don't be surprised if we're talking about, you know, some players that usually don't get a whole lot of love in the regular season.
