A matinee in the State of Hockey.
The Canes blew 2 leads against Buffalo on Thursday but won in OT on a right circle blast from Dougie Hamilton. Aho, Turbo and Svech had the other goals. Martinook is back after missing 15 games with a core muscle injury. He’ll slot onto the 4th line with McGinn and Haula.
The Wild carry a 5 game home point streak into the game, going 4-0-1 in that stretch. But they sit last in the Central, with 15 points in 19 games. This is only their 7th home game though. Eric Staal leads with 6 goals and 14 points. He and Jared Spurgeon have 8 assists. They’ve settled on some line combos with Koivu centering Parise and Fiala and Staal between Zucker and Canes killer Zuccarello in the top 6. Victor Rask centers the 4th line. He’s played 10 games and has 1g, 1a and is winning less than 41% of his faceoffs. Staal, linemate Jason Zucker, Zach Parise and Matt Dumba are all in the bottom 10 in the league at -11 or worse. Devan Dubnyk has started 12 games in goal and arrives a 3.30/.896 stat line. He’s caked up by Alex Stalock at 2.85/.903. The Wild are 26th in goals scored per game at 2.63 and 24th in goals against per game at 3.42. They’re 18th on the PP at 18.6% and 11st on the PK at 83.0%
The Canes blew 2 leads against Buffalo on Thursday but won in OT on a right circle blast from Dougie Hamilton. Aho, Turbo and Svech had the other goals. Martinook is back after missing 15 games with a core muscle injury. He’ll slot onto the 4th line with McGinn and Haula.
The Wild carry a 5 game home point streak into the game, going 4-0-1 in that stretch. But they sit last in the Central, with 15 points in 19 games. This is only their 7th home game though. Eric Staal leads with 6 goals and 14 points. He and Jared Spurgeon have 8 assists. They’ve settled on some line combos with Koivu centering Parise and Fiala and Staal between Zucker and Canes killer Zuccarello in the top 6. Victor Rask centers the 4th line. He’s played 10 games and has 1g, 1a and is winning less than 41% of his faceoffs. Staal, linemate Jason Zucker, Zach Parise and Matt Dumba are all in the bottom 10 in the league at -11 or worse. Devan Dubnyk has started 12 games in goal and arrives a 3.30/.896 stat line. He’s caked up by Alex Stalock at 2.85/.903. The Wild are 26th in goals scored per game at 2.63 and 24th in goals against per game at 3.42. They’re 18th on the PP at 18.6% and 11st on the PK at 83.0%