Russian hockey player for the Minnesota club of the National Hockey League (NHL), Kirill Kaprizov, scored a goal in the preseason match against Chicago.
The meeting ended with a score of 6:1.
Among the winners, Marco Rossi, Jonas Brodin, Mats Zuccarello, Brock Faber and Marcus Johansson also shot accurately. Russian hockey player for Minnesota Marat Khusnutdinov made an assist.
The Russian forward played 75 games in the NHL regular season in the 2023/24 season, during which he hit the opponent’s goal 46 times and made 50 assists to his teammates. He became the team’s top scorer by far. At the end of the regular season, Minnesota failed to qualify for the playoffs and finished tenth in the Western Conference standings with 86 points.
Minnesota will start the new NHL season with a game against the Columbus Blue Jackets. The match will be played on October 11. The first match will take place at 3:00 Moscow time. The match will be played at Minnesota’s home field.
former owner of Minnesota declared his desire Build a team around hockey player Kaprizov.