Athletistic / Hockey. The Minnesota Wild defeated the San Jose Sharks (4:3) last night in an NHL regular season home game. The main character of the meeting was the Russian striker of the “savages” Kirill Kaprizov.

The 26-year-old Russian scored three goals during the meeting with the “sharks”. Kaprizov scored his third hat-trick this season. This helped Kirill repeat the Minnesota record. Previously, the Slovakian Marian Gaborik (2002/2003 season) and the American Zach Parise (2015/2016 season) had scored three hat-tricks in a single season.

This NHL season, Kirill Kaprizov scored 66 points (29+37) in 55 games. Minnesota is in 11th place in the Western Conference standings with 64 points.


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