Minnesota Wild (41-20-12, in the Central Division) vs. Boston Bruins (40-24-8, in the Atlantic Division)<\/p>\n
Boston; Saturday, 5 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Boston Bruins host the Minnesota Wild after the Bruins defeated the Buffalo Sabres 4-3 in overtime.<\/p>\n
Boston is 26-10-1 in home games and 40-24-8 overall. The Bruins have a +16 scoring differential, with 237 total goals scored and 221 given up.<\/p>\n
Minnesota has a 41-20-12 record overall and a 21-10-4 record in road games. The Wild have conceded 205 goals while scoring 235 for a +30 scoring differential.<\/p>\n
The teams play Saturday for the second time this season. The Wild won 6-2 in the last matchup. Kirill Kaprizov led the Wild with two goals.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Morgan Geekie has 34 goals and 28 assists for the Bruins. Pavel Zacha has eight goals and four assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Matthew Boldy has 38 goals and 38 assists for the Wild. Quinn Hughes has eight assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Bruins: 5-2-3, averaging 3.1 goals, 5.3 assists, 3.8 penalties and 10.1 penalty minutes while giving up 2.8 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Wild: 4-4-2, averaging 2.6 goals, 4.4 assists, 4.5 penalties and 10.1 penalty minutes while giving up 2.3 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Bruins: None listed.<\/p>\n
Wild: None listed.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minnesota Wild (41-20-12, in the Central Division) vs. Boston Bruins (40-24-8, in the Atlantic Division) Boston; Saturday, 5…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5099],"tags":[15731,12086,15730,1251,154,95,5132,530,5,12399,4,43],"class_list":["post-525697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-boston-bruins","tag-app-around-maine","tag-app-in-the-community","tag-around-maine-more-maine-news","tag-associated-press","tag-boston","tag-boston-bruins","tag-bostonbruins","tag-bruins","tag-hockey","tag-maine","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116301260583456886","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525697","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=525697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}