The Minnesota Wild’s troubles continue against the Florida Panthers as well.
Against the Panthers and their excellent goalkeeper Sergei Bobrovsky they scored again only one goal and lost 1:2 in the end after a shootout. Bobrovsky shows 27 saves, Filip Gustavsson even 33 in the goal of the Wild.
Kirill Kaprizov scores again for Minnesota, scoring his 30th goal of the season to make it 1-1 in the meantime. Only Mats Zuccarello is successful in the penalty shoot-out, while Anton Lundell and Aleksander Barkov ensure victory for Florida.
Kaprizov is only the third player in Wild history to score 30+ goals in consecutive seasons. He ranks behind Marian Gaborik and Brian Rolston, who even reached this mark three years in a row.
Minnesota has a goal difference of 7-15 in their last five games and has never scored more than two goals in a game. “We all have to find a way,” said Kaprizov after the game: “If we find our game again and go back to the basics, we’ll be able to win some of these games again.”