Florida Panthers (26-20-3, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Minnesota Wild (29-14-9, in the Central Division)<\/p>\n
Saint Paul, Minnesota; Saturday, 9 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Minnesota Wild host the Florida Panthers after Mats Zuccarello scored two goals in the Wild’s 4-3 overtime win against the Detroit Red Wings.<\/p>\n
Minnesota is 29-14-9 overall and 14-6-6 at home. The Wild have scored 165 total goals (3.2 per game) to rank ninth in league play.<\/p>\n
Florida has a 26-20-3 record overall and a 12-10-0 record in road games. The Panthers serve 10.9 penalty minutes per game to rank fifth in NHL play.<\/p>\n
Saturday’s game is the first time these teams meet this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Marcus Johansson has 13 goals and 21 assists for the Wild. Ryan Hartman has five goals and three assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Sam Reinhart has 24 goals and 23 assists for the Panthers. Sam Bennett has scored five goals with five assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Wild: 4-4-2, averaging 3.4 goals, 6.4 assists, 3.1 penalties and 6.7 penalty minutes while giving up 3.8 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Panthers: 5-5-0, averaging 2.1 goals, 2.9 assists, five penalties and 13 penalty minutes while giving up 3.3 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Wild: None listed.<\/p>\n
Panthers: None listed.<\/p>\n
___<\/p>\n
The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida Panthers (26-20-3, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Minnesota Wild (29-14-9, in the Central Division) Saint Paul, Minnesota;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5102],"tags":[52697,301,62,57,5141,5,4,292,63,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-423583","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida-panthers","8":"tag-52697","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-florida-panthers","12":"tag-floridapanthers","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-nhl-hockey","16":"tag-panthers","17":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115944531144694973","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}