Calgary Flames (21-25-6, in the Pacific Division) vs. Minnesota Wild (30-14-10, in the Central Division)<\/p>\n
Saint Paul, Minnesota; Thursday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Calgary Flames visit the Minnesota Wild after the Wild knocked off the Chicago Blackhawks 4-3 in a shootout.<\/p>\n
Minnesota has a 15-6-7 record at home and a 30-14-10 record overall. The Wild have gone 26-3-6 when scoring three or more goals.<\/p>\n
Calgary has a 21-25-6 record overall and an 8-16-2 record in road games. The Flames have a 5-5-4 record in games decided by one goal.<\/p>\n
The teams play Thursday for the third time this season. The Flames won the previous matchup 4-1.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Ryan Hartman has scored 14 goals with 10 assists for the Wild. Vladimir Tarasenko has five goals and three assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Mikael Backlund has 12 goals and 20 assists for the Flames. Kevin Bahl has five assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Wild: 5-3-2, averaging 3.4 goals, 6.2 assists, 3.8 penalties and 8.4 penalty minutes while giving up 3.8 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Flames: 3-5-2, averaging two goals, 3.4 assists, 3.5 penalties and 8.4 penalty minutes while giving up 2.8 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Wild: None listed.<\/p>\n
Flames: None listed.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Calgary Flames (21-25-6, in the Pacific Division) vs. Minnesota Wild (30-14-10, 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":[5118],"tags":[53465,301,5,161,38,5280,4,292,43,162],"class_list":{"0":"post-434643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-wild","8":"tag-53465","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-minnesota","12":"tag-minnesota-wild","13":"tag-minnesotawild","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-nhl-hockey","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-wild"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115979696341341748","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434643","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=434643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434643\/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=434643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}