Minnesota Wild (40-20-12, in the Central Division) vs. Florida Panthers (35-32-3, in the Atlantic Division)<\/p>\n
Sunrise, Florida; Thursday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Minnesota Wild visit the Florida Panthers after the Panthers took down the Seattle Kraken 5-4 in a shootout.<\/p>\n
Florida has gone 19-14-3 in home games and 35-32-3 overall. The Panthers have conceded 232 goals while scoring 206 for a -26 scoring differential.<\/p>\n
Minnesota has gone 20-10-4 on the road and 40-20-12 overall. The Wild have a 35-4-6 record when scoring at least three goals.<\/p>\n
Thursday\u2019s game is the second time these teams square off this season. The Panthers won 4-3 in overtime in the previous matchup. Brad Marchand led the Panthers with two goals.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Carter Verhaeghe has scored 21 goals with 29 assists for the Panthers. Matthew Tkachuk has four goals and six assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Kirill Kaprizov has 38 goals and 42 assists for the Wild. Vladimir Tarasenko has scored six goals and added four assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Panthers: 5-5-0, averaging 2.5 goals, 3.9 assists, 3.7 penalties and 10.1 penalty minutes while giving up three goals per game.<\/p>\n
Wild: 4-4-2, averaging 2.7 goals, 4.7 assists, five penalties and 12.5 penalty minutes while giving up 2.3 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Panthers: Cole Schwindt: out (lower body), Brad Marchand: out (lower body), Mackie Samoskevich: out (undisclosed), Sam Reinhart: day to day (foot), Niko Mikkola: out (knee), Anton Lundell: day to day (upper-body), Uvis Balinskis: out (foot), Jonah Gadjovich: out (upper body), Aleksander Barkov: out (knee).<\/p>\n
Wild: Marcus Foligno: out (lower-body).<\/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":"Minnesota Wild (40-20-12, in the Central Division) vs. Florida Panthers (35-32-3, in the Atlantic Division) Sunrise, Florida; Thursday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5118],"tags":[91,245,254,246,3711,37676,1280,62,57,5,250,537,251,1336,94,161,38,5280,1277,4,292,255,252,234,48389,43,260,3359,162],"class_list":["post-521733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-minnesota-wild","tag-aleksander-barkov","tag-anton-lundell","tag-brad-marchand","tag-carter-verhaeghe","tag-cole-schwindt","tag-data-skrive","tag-fl-state-wire","tag-florida","tag-florida-panthers","tag-hockey","tag-jonah-gadjovich","tag-kirill-kaprizov","tag-mackie-samoskevich","tag-marcus-foligno","tag-matthew-tkachuk","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-wild","tag-minnesotawild","tag-mn-state-wire","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-hockey","tag-niko-mikkola","tag-sam-reinhart","tag-seattle-kraken","tag-seattle-redhawks","tag-sports","tag-uvis-balinskis","tag-vladimir-tarasenko","tag-wild"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116288851306351178","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521733","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=521733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}