A strange
scheduling quirk had the Wild traveling to Dallas twice in a period of 5 days
this week. The Wild ended the 10 year drought on Monday with a big win so how
will they fare a second time down in Texas?
Friday was
former Minnesota North Stars goalie, Jon Casey 51st birthday. What a
day to have a birthday on game day between the team that left Minnesota to
become the Dallas Stars and the current Minnesota team. Jon was goalie for the
last Stanley Cup team Minnesota had before they left for Dallas
Minnesota
North Stars back in 1988 drafted with the first pick overall in the draft, Mike
Modano who played for the North Stars and Dallas. If this game did not have
enough emotion we find Modano involved in the ceremonial dropping of the puck
to start the game
My cable did
not offer this game so I got my trusty radio out to listen to the game. I can
remember back in the day listening to Al Shaver voice of the North Stars making
the games so fun to listen to win or lose by the North Stars
The decision
to leave goalie Niklas Backstrom back in the cities and give Matt Hackett his
first start of the year was an interesting move by the coaching staff.
The way the
Stars came out in the first period outshooting the Wild 17-7 gave Hackett
plenty of action. The Stars come out in the emotional game to a 2-0 lead I was
concerned about. The Wild did what they have done all year and get the goal
they needed to hopefully swing the emotion back.
First Intermission was great to listen to as
former North Stars and now in the radio broadcast of the Wild, Tom Reid
interviewed Mike Modano.
The Wild
tying up the game gave me the feeling this would give the team the feel like we
can do it again.
The Wild just took too many penalties and as
good as the team has been killing off penalties Friday was not their night.
The sign it
was not going to be their night as the refs do something I just don’t see very
often if it all. They call 2 penalties on 2 different Wild players at the same
time. As good as the team has been in killing penalties a 5-3 is asking for
trouble. It seemed to break the Wild’s back as Dallas scored seemingly seconds
into the 2 man advantage.
Third period
was disappointing with Dallas only having 5 shots on goal but yet they scored
on 3 of the 5 shots.
I do like
the team not quitting as the Wild come up with a late goal. It is what I love
about this team they go down a goal and have the ability to bounce back. Friday
was not the Wild’s night but I do look for a big bounce back game as they host
last year’s Stanley Cup Champion, Los Angeles Kings.
Thanks for
reading
Purplestick
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