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Game 8: Wild At Canucks Preview: Here We Are Now, Entertain Us

WILD
CANUCKS

AT

Time Sat. 1:00 PM PST
TV Sportsnet-P, NHLN-US
Season Series  0 - 0
Last Meeting
5-0 Canucks (Apr. 7/11)
The Enemy Hockey Wilderness Scoring Leaders D. Sedin: 3-7-10 Latendresse: 1-4-5
Wild
Category Canucks
3-2-2 Season Record 3-3-1
7th
Conference Position 8th
Won 1
Streak Won 1
1-1-1
< Road Record / Home Record >
1-1-1
-
Last 10 -
-1
Goals For / Against +/- -2
2.00 (25)
Goals Per Game 2.71 (11)
2.29 (14)
Goals Against Per Game 2.86 (20)
0.91 (19)
5 On 5 GF/GA 1.00 (13)
11.1 (24)
Power Play %
18.0 (13)
81.8 (19)
Penalty Kill %
81.8 (20)
33.3
Winning % When Scoring First 100
33.3
Winning % When Leading After 1 100
33.3
Winning % When Leading After 2 100
49.6 (17)
Faceoffs % 51.9 (8)
8.9 (2)
PIM's Per Game Average
15.7 (22) 
NHL.com

1:00??? Who drinks that early? I'm not a Khabibulin!

STARTING GOALTENDERS


Cory Schneider

#35 / Goalie / Vancouver Canucks

6-2

195

Mar 18, 1986



GP MIN W L EGA GA GAA SA SV SV% SO
2011 - Cory Schneider 2 118 1 1 4 2.03 62 58 .935 0



Niklas Backstrom

#32 / Goalie / Minnesota Wild

6-1

189

Feb 13, 1978



GP MIN W L EGA GA GAA SA SV SV% SO
2011 - Niklas Backstrom 6 371 3 2 13 2.10 167 154 .922 0


PROJECTED LINEUPS

WILD

Devin Setoguchi - Mikko Koivu - Dany Heatley

Guillaume Latendresse - Matt Cullen - Pierre-Marc Bouchard

Brett Bulmer - Kyle Brodziak - Cal Clutterbuck

Brad Staubitz - Darroll Powe - Colton Gillies

Greg Zanon - Marek Zidlicky

Marco Scandella - Nick Schultz

Clayton Stoner - Jared Spurgeon

CANUCKS

Burrows-Hank-Dank

Higgins-Kesler-Hodgson

Hansen-Malhotra-Sturm

Volpatti-Lapierre-Weise

Edler-Hamhuis

Bieksa-Ballard

Salo-Alberts

KNOW YOUR ENEMY

-The Wild may be a low-scoring team right now, but they don't allow many goals against either. They won their last game 2-1 in a shootout over the Oilers. Dany Heatley tied the game with 2 seconds left.

-The Canucks were 4-2 against the Wild last season and the scores in those games were generally lopsided. So expect the unexpected when these 2 teams play eachother. Always entertaining.

-At the beginning of each month the Wild are having a "Mustache Boy" shootout contest during practice. Pretty sweet idea. Guess who the loser was for October.

VIDEO

The Last Meeting: The President's Trophy was handed out, Manny made a studly return, and The KesLORD PUNISHED Minny for their collective sins:

This Clutterbuck fail will never get old:

COCONUTS!