{"id":288475,"date":"2024-11-14T09:04:23","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T15:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=288475"},"modified":"2024-11-14T09:09:54","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T15:09:54","slug":"minnesota-wild-vs-montreal-canadiens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=288475","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Wild vs. Montreal Canadiens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>ST. PAUL, Minn. &#8212;<\/strong>&nbsp;The Minnesota Wild return home, looking to bounce back, as they face the Montreal Canadiens on Military Appreciation Night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Info for Tonight&#8217;s Game:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Thursday, November 14 at 7:00 p.m. CT at the\u00a0Xcel Energy Center (St. Paul, Minnesota)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Wild Record:<\/strong>&nbsp;10-2-3, 23 points, 2nd in Central Division<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Canadiens Record:<\/strong>&nbsp;5-9-2, 12 points, 8th in Atlantic Division<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2023-24 Series Record:<\/strong>&nbsp;2-0-0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>All-Time Wild Record:<\/strong>&nbsp;21-7-3 (9-5-2 at Montreal)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Stats Comparison<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Team Stats<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>MTL<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>MIN<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Power Play<\/td><td>23.2%<\/td><td>20.8%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Penalty Kill<\/td><td>80.4%<\/td><td>75.0%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Faceoff<\/td><td>47.4%<\/td><td>48.7%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Goals For \/ Games Played<\/td><td>2.88<\/td><td>3.53<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Goals Against \/ Games Played<\/td><td>4.13<\/td><td>2.53<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Last Season on Wild vs. Canadiens<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Minnesota went 2-0-0 against Montreal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minnesota won the series-opening game, 5-2, in Montreal (10\/17) and claimed a 4-3 overtime victory in St. Paul (12\/21).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LW&nbsp;<strong>Kirill Kaprizov<\/strong>&nbsp;led the Wild with six points (2-4=6). RW&nbsp;<strong>Mats Zuccarello<\/strong>&nbsp;(0-3=3) and C&nbsp;<strong>Marco Rossi<\/strong>&nbsp;(1-2=3) each had three points. C&nbsp;<strong>Joel Eriksson Ek<\/strong>&nbsp;scored two goals (2-0=2). G&nbsp;<strong>Marc-Andr\u00e9 Fleury<\/strong>&nbsp;saved 26-of-28 shots faced in the opening game. G&nbsp;<strong>Filip Gustavsson<\/strong>&nbsp;stopped 22-of-25 shots faced in the second meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>D&nbsp;<strong>David Savard<\/strong>&nbsp;led Montreal with three points (1-2=3). LW&nbsp;<strong>Cole<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Caufield<\/strong>&nbsp;(0-2=2) and C&nbsp;<strong>Nick Suzuki<\/strong>&nbsp;(1-1=2) had two points each. G&nbsp;<strong>Sam<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Montembeault<\/strong>&nbsp;went 0-1-1 with a 4.38 GAA and a .847 SV% in two starts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Wild Leaders Against&nbsp;<strong>Canadiens<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>LW&nbsp;<strong>Marcus Johansson<\/strong>&nbsp;leads Minnesota with 23 points (5-18=23) in 32 career games vs. Montreal<\/li><li>LW&nbsp;<strong>Marcus Foligno<\/strong>&nbsp;(7-8=15, in 32 games) and D&nbsp;<strong>Zach Bogosian<\/strong>&nbsp;(4-11=15, in 45 games) have 15 points each<\/li><li>Zuccarello has 12 points (2-10=12) in 26 games<\/li><li>Kaprizov owns 11 points (4-7=11) in six games<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Canadiens Leaders Against Wild<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Savard has 10 points (5-5=10) in 22 games<\/li><li>C&nbsp;<strong>Christian Dvorak<\/strong>&nbsp;(2-6=8, in 23 games) and LW&nbsp;<strong>Brendan Gallagher<\/strong>&nbsp;(5-3=8, in 16 games) have eight points each<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Recent Transactions<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>11\/13\/24<\/td><td>Recalled F&nbsp;<strong>Michael Milne<\/strong>&nbsp;from Iowa<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>11\/12\/24<\/td><td>Recalled D&nbsp;<strong>Daemon Hunt<\/strong>&nbsp;from Iowa<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>11\/11\/24<\/td><td>Reassigned F&nbsp;<strong>Michael Milne<\/strong>&nbsp;to Iowa<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>11\/6\/24<\/td><td>Recalled F&nbsp;<strong>Michael Milne<\/strong>&nbsp;from Iowa<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To view more recent transactions, visit&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/wild\/team\/transactions\">wild.com\/transactions<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Connections<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Minnesota Goaltending Coach&nbsp;<strong>Frederic Chabot<\/strong>&nbsp;went 1-4-1 with a 2.63 GAA and a .899 SV% in 16 games (seven starts) with the Canadiens in parts of four seasons (1990-91; 1992-94; 1998-99)<\/li><li>C&nbsp;<strong>Frederick Gaudreau<\/strong>&nbsp;hails from Bromont, Quebec<\/li><li>Fleury is from Sorel, Quebec<\/li><li>D&nbsp;<strong>Jon Merrill<\/strong>&nbsp;skated in 13 games for Montreal in 2020-21<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fast Facts<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Minnesota is 16-1-0 in its last 17 games vs. the Canadiens, and is on a seven game winning streak since 10\/20\/19<\/li><li>The sevengame win streak is the Wild\u2019s longest active winning streak vs. a single opponent<\/li><li>The Wild recorded a nine-game win streak against Montreal (12\/3\/14-1\/7\/19), out scoring the Canadiens, 36-10<\/li><li>Minnesota has won the last 10 games played at Xcel Energy Center (11\/1\/13 &#8211; 12\/21\/23), the<br>team\u2019s longest active home win streak against an opponent and tied for the sixth-longest active home winning streak vs. a single opponent in the NHL<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PAUL, Minn. &#8212;&nbsp;The Minnesota Wild return home, looking to bounce back, as they face the Montreal Canadiens on Military Appreciation Night. Info for Tonight&#8217;s Game: Thursday, November 14 at 7:00 p.m. CT at the\u00a0Xcel Energy Center (St. Paul, Minnesota) Wild Record:&nbsp;10-2-3, 23 points, 2nd in Central Division Canadiens Record:&nbsp;5-9-2, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":274354,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=288475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288478,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288475\/revisions\/288478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/274354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=288475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=288475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}