Minnesota Wild (42-21-12, in the Central Division) vs. Ottawa Senators (39-26-10, in the Atlantic Division)<\/p>\n
Ottawa, Ontario; Saturday, 1 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Minnesota Wild visit the Ottawa Senators after Ryan Hartman scored two goals in the Wild’s 5-2 win over the Vancouver Canucks.<\/p>\n
Ottawa has a 39-26-10 record overall and a 19-11-6 record in home games. The Senators are ninth in the league serving 9.8 penalty minutes per game.<\/p>\n
Minnesota is 42-21-12 overall and 21-11-4 on the road. The Wild have a +30 scoring differential, with 243 total goals scored and 213 allowed.<\/p>\n
The matchup Saturday is the second meeting between these teams this season. The Wild won 3-2 in the previous meeting.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Dylan Cozens has 27 goals and 26 assists for the Senators. Drake Batherson has five goals and two assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Kirill Kaprizov has 40 goals and 43 assists for the Wild. Vladimir Tarasenko has scored five goals and added two assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Senators: 6-3-1, averaging 3.3 goals, 5.1 assists, 3.7 penalties and 8.6 penalty minutes while giving up 2.7 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Wild: 4-5-1, averaging 2.7 goals, 4.7 assists, 4.2 penalties and 9.5 penalty minutes while giving up 2.8 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Senators: Dennis Gilbert: out (upper-body), Jake Sanderson: day to day (upper body), Thomas Chabot: out (forearm), Tyler Kleven: day to day (upper body), Carter Yakemchuk: day to day (concussion), Nick Jensen: out (lower-body).<\/p>\n
Wild: 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":"Minnesota Wild (42-21-12, in the Central Division) vs. Ottawa Senators (39-26-10, in the Atlantic Division) Ottawa, Ontario; Saturday,…\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":[61720,301,5,161,38,5280,4,292,43,162],"class_list":{"0":"post-538271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-wild","8":"tag-61720","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\/116340287291176638","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538271","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=538271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538271\/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=538271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}