Buium’s penalty part of the learning curve for Wild rookie

Rookies can add great things to their teams come playoff time And there are moments where you re reminded they are rookies That was the development for defenseman Zeev Buium on Saturday after he again displayed flashes of the offensive brilliance that made him one of college hockey s top players as a sophomore at Denver and took a costly penalty that changed the direction of the battle With Buium in the penalty box for four minutes the Golden Knights tied the tournament and Buium didn t see the ice in overtime of the Wild s loss in Battle But after the meeting his coach wasn t making a scapegoat out of the rookie or anyone I think just more of the situation of several of the guys that we were going with I think that was the decision we made going through John Hynes explained about Buium s limited ice time although he did play following the penalty He was fine after like we put him right back out when he got out of the penalty box I just thought when we get into overtime we were going with the guys we went with Wild captain Jared Spurgeon who has played defense at this level for more than a decade explained that the penalty which came when Buium inadvertently caught Vegas captain Mark Stone near his eye with a high stick was unfortunate but nothing more Unlucky He didn t mean to do it Spurgeon noted Nothing you can do Nothing really to say other than assistance him In all Buium logged in the match and was a plus- Matt Boldy set a gang record for time on the ice by a forward with while defenseman Brock Faber played exactly one second less at Assist from the seventh player There is a running joke in hockey that attackers on a power play would never know when to release the puck save for the crowd yelling shooooooot whenever there s an opportunity to test the goalie But when the Wild got a vital man-advantage goal late in the second period of Challenge the audience may have in fact been helpful Knowing that there were less than seconds remaining in the period Ryan Hartman could hear the crowd yelling for a shot as the puck was coming his way So he took a quick glance at the scoreboard just before the pass reached him and saw roughly four seconds with which to work Knowing there was no time for a fancy play Hartman threw the puck toward the goalmouth where it glanced off Kirill Kaprizov s chest and over the goal line for a - lead They get it Wild coach John Hynes joked afterward The seventh man gets the assist on that one Political appeal at the rink In addition to the highlights crowd enticements and advertisements shown on the Xcel Potential Center scoreboard between periods on Saturday there was a QR code posted with an appeal for Minnesotans to contact their legislators and urge their advocacy of populace dollars to upgrade the -year-old arena Wild owner Craig Leipold and St Paul mayor Melvin Carter testified before the Minnesota Senate and House earlier in the spring detailing a request for nearly million in state dollars for updates and upgrades not only to the hockey arena but to the adjacent Roy Wilkins Auditorium and RiverCentre convention facility A scan of the QR code took visitors to a website where they could sign up for updates on the renovation efforts noting that the arena complex generates million in local spending and draws million visitors to St Paul each year Related Articles John Shipley Wild s penalty kill has been a series killer for too long Knights rally for OT win in Competition to tie playoff series -all with Wild Dane Mizutani If Kirill Kaprizov keeps playing like this the Wild are true Stanley Cup contenders With Contest ahead a quartet of keys for the Wild Wild jump Vegas early in Encounter to take a - series lead