Gone Puck Wild » Martin Havlat http://gonepuckwild.com A Minnesota Wild Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:56:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Wild Reel In Sharks, Win 4-3 http://gonepuckwild.com/2012/02/26/wild-reel-in-sharks-win-4-3/ http://gonepuckwild.com/2012/02/26/wild-reel-in-sharks-win-4-3/#comments Mon, 27 Feb 2012 04:33:05 +0000 Mark Okern http://gonepuckwild.com/?p=1334 Stressful night in the State of Hockey. New faces, new-old faces, familiar faces in other colors, coaches getting whacked with sticks, comebacks… Let’s go right through the list. All three “new” guys saw ice time tonight. The only truly new player to the Xcel was Nick Palmieri, and he definitely made his 6’3” 220-pound presence [...]

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Stressful night in the State of Hockey. New faces, new-old faces, familiar faces in other colors, coaches getting whacked with sticks, comebacks…

Let’s go right through the list.

All three “new” guys saw ice time tonight. The only truly new player to the Xcel was Nick Palmieri, and he definitely made his 6’3” 220-pound presence known on the ice. A quarter second either way and he’d have made his wicked wraparound known too. Former and now current Wild players Kurtis Foster and Stephane Veilleux certainly showed up to play as well.

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]]> It seems that everyone that has offered an opinion on the recent Wild Training Camp scrimmages viewed the games and players differently. Therefore, I will add my own two cent opinion into the mix. The waters cannot get any more muddy with yet one more boot stomping through the puddle. Since I am also known for having an “Anti-Todd Richards” bias, some of the following may still contain disparaging comparisons.

Most hockey pundits are decrying the loss of Brent Burns on the Wild’s defense, some even labeling it the “worst defense in the league” because he was shipped out to San Jose. I may agree with that from the goal perspective, but frankly, I’m enough of a defense first fan that goals from the D don’t particularly matter to me. Keeping the puck out of the net and keeping the puck out of the zone are more important from my perspective than having a D-man that has a very strong end to end rush (and that’s about it).

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