Wild start strong and then in Seattle – Twin Cities to win to win

Seattle-one of the big mantras in hockey is the need to play “a full 60-minute game”. That means you want to have control over the ice every minute at any time and in every shift.

On Tuesday on the west coast, Minnesota, admittedly, managed to win with a game of around 35 minutes. They built a healthy lead in Seattle and then held a 4: 3 victory when the octopus made a spirited but ultimately fruitless comeback.

“We had great 30 minutes and bad 30 minutes, and luckily we get the two points,” said Mats Zuccarello, who had the gaming goal and support. He expressly called out the 33 parades by Goalie Filip Gustavsson. “We have some huge blocks and then GUS. The first half was ours, the second half belonged to them, and then we still found a way to win. “

As The Wild, her second game in a row was won and a road series was achieved with two games. Then they locked the last 25 minutes and only made one shot on goal while forwarding Gustavsson to save the victory.

“I thought there were many twists and turns in the game tonight, and sometimes they will get them,” said Wild trainer John Hynes. “But to find a way to win is the most important thing.”

With the wilderness in the first power game of the game Zuccarello tore a wrist shot on the net, where Hinostroza was engaged with a octopus defender. The puck steered Hinostroza about the same time when Hinostroza passed to Seattle goalkeeper Joey Daccord, and took a slight contact with the goalkeeper on the net. The Seattle coaches needed a minute to check the video and then decided not to challenge the game.

For Hinostroza it was his fourth goal – three of them in the power play – in his seven games with The Wild since he was excluded from Nashville in early February.

After Seattle bound the game from the blue line through the traffic by the defender Adam Larsson, Minnesota had a quick answer as Spurgeon's shot from the lower corner, Daccord, and the visitors led 2-1 after a period.

The wilderness set up a quick start to the second when Gaudreau scored its second goal in so many games less than two minutes after the middle frame. Then special teams became a big factor. Kraken striker Eeli Tolvanen climbed behind the wild defense, but Minnesotas Brock Faber got enough to thwart the chance of scoring – the officials were illegally. Faber was called to the hook of Tolvanen from behind and called to get in. The end result was a penalty shot that Gustavsson lasted, and a power game in which Seattle checked the puck for the full two minutes, but survived the wild.

“For me it has never happened where I got two penalties in one,” said Faber. “But I am glad that the boys could kill it and Gus was able to save the penalty shot.”

Momentum swung the Minnesota path shortly later, when Zuccarello picked up a fairly temporary game with its 14th goal of the season to achieve the wilderness by three.

But Seattle regulated the swing with a Power Play marker and then returned in a goal with only 11.3 seconds in the period when the wilderness was caught in a separate shift. Seattle had the last eight shots of the time.

Minnesota seemed to have a 5: 3 lead over the second goal of the season from Devin Shore. Seattle challenged the piece and after a painfully long rating it was not a goal after the officials ruled that Jakub Lauko had played the puck with a high stick.

“I thought there was a lot of good things. For various reasons, I only had the feeling that the puck was too easy at the beginning of the game, ”said Seattle coach Dan Bylsma.

Daccord had 16 parades for the octopuses who entered the NHL as an expansion team in 2021 and have never hit the wilderness on home ice.

Former Gopher Star Ben Meyers played on Saturday in Seattle's last game, a 6: 3 home win against Vancouver. But since Yanni Gourde was activated from the injured reserve for the first time since the beginning of January before the game on Tuesday, Meyers was sent to the coachella Valley Ahl team from Kraken. In seven games with the octopuses this season, Meyers – the 2022 Big Ten MVP – has not yet taken a point.

The wild ones are released on Wednesday when they travel to Vancouver, where they will train on Thursday and will compete for the second time this season on Friday, with the game exposed at 9 p.m. CT. Minnesota defeated the Canucks on December 3 in St. Paul 3-2 in her first meeting of the season.