Game Thread: Habs @ Wild

[IndyAndy]

Minny gets Ballard, Coyle & Brodin back tonight.

Yeo has shook up the lines (again) to make room for them.

O lines:

Parise-Coyle-Heatley
Niederreiter-Koivu-Brodziak
Pominville-Granlund-Cooke
Fontaine-Konopka-Mitchell

D lines:

Suter-Brodin
Ballard-Stoner
Spurgeon-Scandella

... And Josh Harding in the net.

 

[Cobiemonster]

Looks pretty good for the Wild

 

[IndyAndy]

Fontaine!!

Welcome back to the line-up, Ballard: Beautiful assist.

... And the Habs answer immediately.

 

[IndyAndy]

1-1 after the 1st.

...Though Harding nearly gift-wrapped the Habs a goal when he passed the puck from behind the goal out to the center of Minny's end of the ice, where there were only guys in white jerseys hanging about.

 

[IndyAndy]

Man; the Habs are good at clogging up the lanes leading to their goal. They make it look like they've got ten guys out there.

 

[IndyAndy]

Pominville!!

After a great laser-line pass from Granlund.

 

[IndyAndy]

2-1 Wild after the 2nd.

Both teams are battling hard. The Habs have had their chances, but Harding has been pretty solid since letting that early one by.

 

[IndyAndy]

Niederreiter!!

Yeo keeps changing up the lines, but it doesn't seem to throw the player off balance so far.

 

[IndyAndy]

PK Suban gets the Habs back to within 1 on a PP.

 

[IndyAndy]

And now the Habs have tied it up: Markov to Gionta.

Yeo takes Minny's time out to talk to the boys.

 

[IndyAndy]

Pominville!!

Finally some sustained offense from Minny in the 3rd.

 

[IndyAndy]

4-3 Minnesota victory.

The Wild hang on for a win that shouldn't have been that close. It's two points, but I'm sure that Yeo still won't be happy about how they almost let that one get away.