The Minnesota Wild have put up astounding numbers on the power play this season. The Wild have scored 12 of their 21 goals this season while on the power play. They lead the league in power-play efficiency, at 38.7 percent, and have a 52.6 percent power-play efficiency in four home games. That will be quite a challenge for the Kings, who gave up two power-play goals at Colorado on Saturday and now rank 10th in the league in penalty-kill efficiency (87.9 percent). Terry Murray spoke, with admiration, about Minnesota’s power-play, and frankly it sounds as though Minnesota is doing everything Murray would like his own team to do…
MURRAY: “That’s incredible. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen that high of a percentage before. We’re going to have to be strong with the puck when we have an opportunity to clear the puck, because they are on it right away. They recover pucks as good as anybody in the league right now. And when the recover it, it’s going right back to the net. There’s no question. It’s a shot mentality. They’re going to try to get your disorganized, and looking for those kind of plays on a consistent basis. Obviously it’s paying off for them. Fifty-three percent is incredible.”
The Kings have given up, what, 3 PP goals now all year?
The statistics are quite skewed, as consistent with this time of year, yes?
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Luc interview on nhl network as im writting this.gota love it.
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easy.. dont take penalties
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2hitnik Reply:
October 25th, 2010 at 3:38 pm
@Mark, Make sure #17 knows
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OneTimer Reply:
October 25th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
@Mark,
Precisely what I was going to add.
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Luc is awesome. So glad he is in the organization. A true King of Kings
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paul Reply:
October 25th, 2010 at 4:20 pm
@Kings x,I agree, So true
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Minnesota Wild Power play. I would like you to meet..Willie Mitchell and Rob Scuderi !
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KC23 Reply:
October 25th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
@puck73, With a little Kopitar and Zues on the side, thank you.
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kinda reminds me of a certain Southern California team’s PP percentage in the playoffs last year vs. the Canucks…hmmm what’s happened since then?
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ColoKingFan Reply:
October 25th, 2010 at 4:27 pm
@LB, yeah once the nucks solved the pp it kinda went south fast.. hopefully tonight is the night Minnesotas pp gets “solved.”
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MURRAY: “That’s incredible. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen that high of a percentage before.”
LA Kings vs Vancouver, last years playoffs.
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