The Canes open a back to back with the banged up Wild.
The Canes put together a complete performance in South Florida, taking down the Panthers 3-1. It started early with a Burns goal at 35 seconds and it ended comically with Slavin scoring while Tkachuk was sitting on KK in the crease, distracting Bob. Drury is back, we’ll see how he and KK are deployed. With a divisional game tomorrow, I expect we’ll see Tokarski today. They’re skating at 10:30 so we’ll see.
The Wild come in winners of 4 of their last 5 but 5-5 in their last 10. They beat the Caps in a shootout on Thursday. They’re 2nd in the Central with 52 points in 39 games. They also have a stunning 14-3-3 road record. Kirill Kaprizov hasn’t played since 12/23 and captain Jared Spurgeon is also out. Marco Rossi has 15 goals and 8 points in his last 8 games. Matt Boldy has 13 goals. Among active players, they’re tied with 18 assists. We should see Filip Gustavsson in goal tonight, old man Fleury played on Thursday. Gustavsson is 4th in the league at 2.24 GAA and 3rd with a .924 save %. They don’t score a lot, 19th at 2.95 goals per game but they’re 6th in goals against 3 spots ahead of the Canes. Their special teams aren’t special, the PP is 20th and the PK is 30th.
Black jerseys, FanDuel for TV.
The Canes put together a complete performance in South Florida, taking down the Panthers 3-1. It started early with a Burns goal at 35 seconds and it ended comically with Slavin scoring while Tkachuk was sitting on KK in the crease, distracting Bob. Drury is back, we’ll see how he and KK are deployed. With a divisional game tomorrow, I expect we’ll see Tokarski today. They’re skating at 10:30 so we’ll see.
The Wild come in winners of 4 of their last 5 but 5-5 in their last 10. They beat the Caps in a shootout on Thursday. They’re 2nd in the Central with 52 points in 39 games. They also have a stunning 14-3-3 road record. Kirill Kaprizov hasn’t played since 12/23 and captain Jared Spurgeon is also out. Marco Rossi has 15 goals and 8 points in his last 8 games. Matt Boldy has 13 goals. Among active players, they’re tied with 18 assists. We should see Filip Gustavsson in goal tonight, old man Fleury played on Thursday. Gustavsson is 4th in the league at 2.24 GAA and 3rd with a .924 save %. They don’t score a lot, 19th at 2.95 goals per game but they’re 6th in goals against 3 spots ahead of the Canes. Their special teams aren’t special, the PP is 20th and the PK is 30th.
Black jerseys, FanDuel for TV.
Maybe Rod will peel the paint in between periods and wake them up…