It is against the Minnesota Wild that the Montreal Canadiens end a sequence of six games out of seven on opposing ice, Thursday evening at the Xcel Energy Center.
- The score is 1-0 for the Wild in the second period
2ND PERIOD
14:14 – Cole Caufield tries to beat the Wild goalie with a shot from an impossible angle, but it hits the post.
12:43 – BUT: Matt Boldy broke the tie that had persisted since the start of the match by completing a superb exchange started by Marcus Johansson and Kirill Kaprizov. 1 to 0 Wild.
Boldy completes a superb exchange –
8:13 – Lane Hutson makes a superb move to beat a Wild defender at the mouth of the net, but his shot is stopped at the last minute by Gustavsson.
0:31 – Marco Rossi receives the first penalty of the game after knocking off Cole Caufield’s skates. Numerical advantage for the CH.
0:00 – Start of the second period
1ST PERIOD
8:00 p.m. – End of first period
12:45 – Mats Zuccarello takes a shot directly in the abdomen from teammate Brock Faber and has to leave the game. His teammate Joel Eriksson Ek also retired to the locker room a few moments later due to an injury. Two heavy losses for the Wild
8:12 – Kaiden Guhle takes advantage of a nice shot from Josh Anderson to get CH’s best scoring chance early in the match, but goalkeeper Filip Gustavsson makes the save from close range.
0:00 – Start of the meeting
Trios du CH:
Slafkovsky-Suzuki-Dach
Caufield-Evans-Newhook
Anderson-Dvorak-Gallagher
Heineman-Conduct-Armia
Guhle-Matheson
Hutson-Savard
Xhekaj-Struble
Montembeault
Trios du Wild:
Kaprizov-Rossi-Zuccarello
Johansson-Eriksson Ek-Boldy
Foligno-Gaudreau-Hartman
Lauko-Khusnutdinov-Trenin
Middleton-Faber
Chisholm-Spurgeon
Merrill-Bogosian
Gustavsson
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