Currently, the National Hockey League (NHL) regular season game is played at the Bell Center stadium in Montreal, where the Montreal Canadiens face the Minnesota Wild. The second period continues. The score is 4:1 in favor of the visiting team.
In the 18th minute of the second twenty-minute period, Russian forward Kirill Kaprizov scored Minnesota’s fourth goal. This is Kaprizov’s first goal of the NHL season. Kaprizov also made an assist in this match.
In the National Hockey League playoffs last season, Minnesota lost to the Dallas Stars 2-4 in the 1/8 finals of the series. Kaprizov appeared in all six matches of the series and scored only one goal.
The Russian forward played in 67 games in total 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.
Kaprizov’s early transfer helped Minnesota beat Florida.