my soon to be underpaid forward <333

Source: https://www.sports-reference.com/stathead/tiny/CFjzw

Clearly a big mood booster for the guys even just having Brock around again. This team’s closeness is one of their strengths, always great to see. Teams that aren’t close just aren’t as fun.

His debut and 1st goal game wearing this jersey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgrBh8DMOjc

Quinn has said he was distressed when Brock got hurt. So seeing him this genuinely happy, smiling so wide while watching Brock recover, says everything about the kind of teammate he is. Thoughtful. Someone who actually cares.
It also shows the chemistry he has with his d partner. The kind Quinn (and plenty of other Wild players) has called irreplaceable.
That should put the question of whether he’ll sign with the Wild to rest. The answer is clear.
The only question left is how long.

I love this duo so much

ST. PAUL, Minn. — When you bring up playing with the likes of Kirill Kaprizov and Matt Boldy, the usually reserved Quinn Hughes seems to light up.

Who can blame the superstar defenseman? Hughes and the Wild’s top line have often been magic together, and there’s no greater example than during Thursday night’s 5-4 win over the Blues.

The injury-plagued Wild were carried by their biggest stars, Boldy (hat trick, 4 points), Kaprizov (3 points) and Hughes (two assists).

“The more reps and games we get together, the more we’re just going to be reading off each other,” Hughes said. “And I feel like we’re getting to a place now where we’re in a good spot with that. And it’s just so fun, so fun playing with them. I feel like when we’re out there together, we just tilt the ice. And credit to (coach John Hynes and assistant Jack Capuano), who are really on that. I think I played every shift with them in the first period, and we just took over. That really jump-started everything, to be honest.”

They combined for the game-swinging goal, too, which came five minutes into the second period. The Blues had just tied it on a highlight-reel play by Mason McTavish, who quieted the crowd. On the next shift, Hughes fueled the breakout with a pass off the wall, which Boldy redirected into the zone. Joel Eriksson Ek and Kaprizov puck hunted on the forecheck, and Boldy found a soft spot for the snipe.

“I mean, anytime you add such a dynamic hockey player, they have three elite hockey players all on one team,” Montgomery said. “You can’t focus on one. That’s why they’re a really good hockey team. Well, one of the reasons.”

There was a team effort element in this win. The Russian line with Yakov Trenin-Danila Yurov-Max Shabanov connected for the team’s first goal on a slick display of passing. Jesper Wallstedt made some big saves, especially early, before the Blues mounted a comeback in the third. David Spacek played one of his better games along with fellow young defenseman Daemon Hunt as the banged-up blue line adjusts with no Brock Faber, Jared Spurgeon and Olli Määttä. The Wild’s structure was on point.

But, make no mistake, having game breakers like the Wild’s top line and Hughes is a key reason Minnesota can survive stretches like this. It’s what makes them contenders in the conference.

Saw a breakdown of which teams are most exposed if their starter misses serious time, and the Wild came out as the most vulnerable team in the league. Wallstedt was legit last year (18-9-6, .916, almost 20 goals saved above average). But with Gustavsson on LTIR after hip surgery, the next man up is Pickard, who was about 10 goals below average in 16 games with Edmonton.

That gap between 1 and 2 is the biggest in the league by their math. Rangers just lost Shesterkin for the year, so this isn’t hypothetical anymore.

Is Pickard good enough to carry a few weeks, or do we need to be looking at the trade market already?

if you were in section 116 row 8 last night and a girl sitting in front of you gave you her number, you really should text her!!! her friend made her leave early but she was really into you!! and she has no way of contacting you since she gave you her number and that’s it. Seriously!!!
from,
the girl in section 116, row 7, seat 18 😁😁😁

Of course it was going to be him tonight.

Dude is gonna put up Nathan MacKinnon numbers on that line.

(47 Games where Kaprizov played with Boldy and Ek for 9-plus minutes at 5-on-5; That is, not just as an in-game adjustment)

ST. PAUL, Minn. — With injuries decimating their fourth line and half their blue line, the Minnesota Wild needed their stars to step up Thursday night against the St. Louis Blues.

Well, their big guns delivered in a big way.

Matt Boldy registered his fifth career hat trick and sixth career four-point game (second-most in Wild history), Kirill Kaprizov scored a goal and two assists and Quinn Hughes and Joel Eriksson Ek had two assists apiece in a 5-4 victory over the Blues.

Kaprizov did head down the tunnel with four minutes left, a shift after goalie Joel Hofer checked him into the end boards. Kaprizov stayed on for the first part of the ensuing power play, but after turning the puck over for a short-handed goal by Robert Thomas, Kaprizov walked to the locker room. Dylan Holloway scored with 14 seconds left with an extra attacker on. Coach John Hynes said postgame that Kaprizov is OK.

Before that, the Blues had no answer for the Wild’s top line, who absolutely dominated on the forecheck.

And with the Wild severely undermanned on the back end, Hughes and Jonas Brodin played heavy minutes and controlled all of their shifts to be Corsi machines.

Hughes set a franchise record by having points in each of his first eight games of the season. He also extended his season-opening assist streak to eight games to tie Filip Kuba for the second-longest run by a defenseman in NHL history; John-Michael Liles set the record by assisting on goals in his first nine games in 2010-11.

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