Minnesota Wild hockey players defeated the Florida Panthers in a National Hockey League (NHL) regular season match. Meeting St. It took place in St. Paul and ended with a score of 2:0.
Brock Faber (8th minute) and Yoel Eriksson Ek (33) scored for the victory. Minnesota’s Russian forward Kirill Kaprizov made an assist. Florida goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 19 of 21 shots, while Panthers defenseman Dmitry Kulikov had two shots on goal and two blocked shots.
In the National Hockey League playoffs last season, Minnesota lost 2-4 to the Dallas Stars in the 1/8 finals of the series. Kaprizov appeared in all six matches of the series and scored only one goal.
In total, the Russian forward played in 67 games for Minnesota during the NHL regular season, scoring 40 goals and making 35 assists. He became the fifth most productive Russian after Alexander Ovechkin, Evgeni Malkin, Artemi Panarin and Nikita Kucherov. Kaprizov missed nearly a month due to injury.
Previously Kaprizova appointed Minnesota’s alternate captain.