Minnesota Wild at St Louis Blues
Minnesota’s loser points are keeping them afloat, as the team has just four wins in 12 games this month but their four loser points means that they have taken half of the available 24 points. A big problem for this team is the penalty killing that has given up nine goals against in their last 11 games. The next problem is the goaltending, as Darcy Kuemper was pulled last night against a pathetic Vancouver team and replaced by Ilya Bryzgalov (who didn’t fare much better). If the team isn’t getting excellent goaltending, they’re not winning games. And right now, they aren’t getting excellent goaltending.
St. Louis put an end to their two-game losing streak by winning the last two against Pittsburgh and Toronto. Even through this “downturn” where the team is just 2-2-0 in their last four games, they have allowed just 11 goals against. Even their slumps don’t seem that bad. One thing they are doing is limiting the chances of the other team; St Louis has allowed over 30 shots on goal just twice in 13 games for the month of March. The top line of David Backes, T.J. Oshie, and Alex Steen has started to heat up of late as well and that’s bad news for the opposition.
Given Minnesota’s situation (played last night, starting Bryzgalov, sucking in general) and St. Louis’ penchant for throttling Minnesota’s offense (the Wild have three goals in three games against the Blues), I’ll take St. Louis in this one. Goaltender Ryan Miller is one of my favorite plays in net for the night while I may make a mini-stack of some Blues players in my GPP lineups.
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Top RW Value |
Top LW Value |
Top C Value |
Top D Value |
Bargain Bin |
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T.J. Oshie (STL) $11,190 |
(MIN) $4635 |
(STL) $6971 |
(STL) $8421 |
(STL) $3894 |
