St. Louis Blues

In early December, simply coming away from a game with one point would not satisfy most Minnesota Wild fans. Tonight, it felt like a victory. Despite the early loss of team captain Mikko Koivu to an unspecified upper body injury and some inexcusable officiating, the Wild took the St. Louis Blues into a shootout where the Wild lost with a final score of 3-2. There is certainly no love lost between these two clubs. Fans will recall just a few weeks ago when a matchup between the teams in St. Paul had penalty boxes bursting at the seams, with 11 [...]

I think so. I think they will win. The Blues have given up 10 goals in their last two games while scoring only one. Granted, they  played Pittsburgh and Anaheim. Based on stats they Blues are the favorite: 2.86  GFA , to the Wild 2.12 2.86 GGA, to the Wild 3.38 Perhaps the most interesting state for this match up is 5 on 5 goals for/against ratio. The Blues are 8th in the league in this stat, the Wild are dead last meaning we don’t score 5 on 5 goals.  Which leads me to look at the Blues penalty situation since [...]