Athletistic / Hockey. The Minnesota Wild hosted the San Jose Sharks in an NHL regular season home game. The meeting ended with a voluntary victory of the “savages” with a score of 4:3.
Sharks forward Mikael Granlund opened the scoring in the 22nd minute. Three minutes later, forward Nico Sturm extended San Jose’s advantage. However, just 50 seconds later, Frédéric Gaudreau scored Minnesota’s first goal of the game. Less than two minutes had passed before the Russian striker of the “savages” Kirill Kaprizov equalized the score.
At the very start of the third period, Anthony Duclair once again gave the Sharks the advantage. However, further on the ice, only Kirill Kaprizov was the soloist. He scored the visitors’ goal in the 43rd and 57th minutes and brought his team an important victory.
Kaprizov spent 22:18 on the ice and scored 3 (3+0) performance points with a utility indicator of “+1”. In total, this season, Kirill has 55 matches and 66 (29+37) points using the goal+pass system.
Minnesota is in 11th place in the Western Conference standings with 64 points. “San Jose” has 36 points and occupies the penultimate, 15th place in the West.
Source: Sport
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