Rieger Lorenz

That transitions in a weird way to the Minnesota Wild because you brought up Lorenz.

Very funny to me how seemingly no one on the Minnesota Wild broadcast knew how to pronounce Rieger Lorenz.

I really enjoyed that throughout the preseason.

Also, just have to give continued shout outs to Lorenz, who I think he's just going to be the unofficial mascot of this show.

Yeah, no, I mean, he was unbelievably impressive.

Yeah, a small sample.

Like, I could very much be wrong, but right now I'm riding high on it and feeling real good about Rieger Lorenz.

Yeah, I mean, it's also different.

I mean, Hunter Haight and Charlie Stramal, I think it's clear they need more time.

But Rieger Lorenz has really impressed throughout camp, and he looks like he's going to be a player.

Yeah, I think they do have some depth guys there.

I think they have some guys they know.

Hunter Haight, Riley Haight, all these guys.

I mean, and when you look at it, the Wild have scored six goals so far in this preseason.

And the only one that's been scored by a guy that, if you include Shabanov as an NHL proven guy, even though, you know, he only has a half a season in the NHL, the only goal that was scored by somebody other than outside of that group was scored by Lorenz.

I mean, it's been Bobby Brinks got a couple.

I mean, that's what I felt like he gave us on Saturday night.

But to the stock-ups, the one that really caught my eye, I don't think I was the most excited to see him, but he was a guy that I was planning to keep an eye on, and that's the former Denver Pioneer, Rieger Lorenz, who – seemingly cannot stop thriving at grand casino arena in St. Paul.

Um, a lot of big goals and plays by him.

They're part of NCHU frozen face-offs or frozen fours, what have you.

Uh, but he started off the night exactly as, uh, as he has, which is a breakaway goal that kind of ricocheted.

I want to say off of, uh, Dylan Gambrell and then off of a Chicago Blackhawks player found his, uh, found it way at his, uh, found its way onto his stick and just in a one-on-one with the goaltender made a nice little move, tucked it behind, uh, Soderblom and made it a 1-0 game he had a couple big block shots uh one at one point he went down the tunnel but the biggest thing in the the what's touted about his game Judd and has been is like his smarts and his hockey IQ because you can have a great shot but if you don't know where to be you're never going to have the great scoring opportunities um he creates a lot of space and I felt like at every point that I noticed him on Saturday night, Rigo Lorenz was in the right spot.

He just constantly found that way to either...

He was open for a defenseman to find him up ice, or a winger was able to drop it off or add it as a support option just for the sake of entering the zone.