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Game 7: Date W/Avalanche On The Line

May 28, 2021, 11:47 AM ET [16 Comments]
Dan Wallace
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Game 7s are what it is all about in sports and the Stanley Cup playoffs are the best pro tournament there is. Oh and we have the Wild in one of those very situations tonight in Vegas.

Winner take all and a date Sunday in Colorado!!!

The series has taken its twists and turns, with great team defense, spectacular goaltending, big goals at key times, and of course some nastiness mixed in with a little bit of controversy to boot.

Tonight it is Vegas' turn to try and swing the momentum meter back into their favor as the Wild did in games five and six.

Marc Andre Fleury enters the game with some doubt hanging over his head having lost the last two and allowing 3 goals in each on just 37 Wild shots against him. Robin Lehner and Fleury alternated starts over the final month and a half of the season and Lehner was DeBoer's choice to start the playoffs last Summer in the bubble. Will we see a change or if not potentially a quick hook if the Wild get a goal or two early?

Vegas has had their issues closing out series in the short history of the franchise. That may become a factor tonight or it may be just fodder for those covering the game tonbring up time and again. The Wild on the other hand have a perfect 3-0 franchise record in game sevens, while Golden Knights head coach has his own person 5-0 game seven record. So what gives tonight in Vegas?

Expect the Wild to have to weather a few extended surges from Vegas and the 2nd period will be critical. The Wildnhave struggled in the middle frame all season and game 5 was all Vegas in the 2nd period. To the Wild credit they defended very well in that period keeping the Golden Knights to the perimeter for many of their 22 shots and allowing Cam Talbot to see the majority of those attempts.

However the Wild cannot tempt fate again with that kind of deluge the Golden Knights displayed in game five and in order to have a chance to win the full 60 minutes must be played more even up. A not to watch for as well and that is if the game does go to OT that second period long change could very well be the undoing of the Wild.

Nothing that happened before matters as the series is tied and how we got here means very little. The game will play out tonight on the ice and the team that gets the better goaltending and the one that makes the finest adjustments based on the prior six will move on...

Game 7!!!

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