Minnesota Wild goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury has performed a complementary position in his twenty first NHL season.
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Abruptly, the 40-year-old netminder has been thrust again into common motion due to a lower-body harm to teammate Filip Gustavsson, who left final Thursday’s 7-1 residence loss to the Edmonton Oilers.
Fleury will make his third begin previously six video games when the Wild host the Florida Panthers on Wednesday night time in St. Paul, Minn.
“Sad to hear about ‘Gus,'” Fleury mentioned about Gustavsson, whose harm is described as brief time period by Wild coach John Hynes. “Hopefully, things aren’t too bad for too long for him. …
“If I can provide the staff an opportunity to win after I’m in there, I believe that is all I would like. Clearly, successful is at all times the aim.”
The Wild have alternated wins and losses in each of their past six games. They are coming off a 3-2 home setback against the Vegas Golden Knights on Sunday evening.
Florida will make its first trip to Minnesota since the Panthers won the Stanley Cup last season. The Panthers are coming off a 6-5 win at Edmonton on Monday night and are 7-2-1 in their last 10 games.
Panthers coach Paul Maurice said everyone deserves credit for the recent victories, including the fourth line of Tomas Nosek, A.J. Greer and Jonah Gadjovich.
“Sam Reinhart for me is one of the best participant on the ice, however that line as a gaggle might be essentially the most impactful,” Maurice said. “I am completely satisfied for them. …
“Now they get a real big piece of that win, which builds your room.”
Reinhart leads Florida with 41 factors in 32 video games. Matthew Tkachuk ranks second with 31 in 27 video games and captain Aleksander Barkov is third with 29 in 22 video games.
Barkov missed the Panthers’ final recreation due to an sickness. His standing is unsure for Wednesday.
Minnesota is led by red-hot ahead Kirill Kaprizov, who has 47 factors in 30 video games. Matt Boldy is subsequent with 29 in 31 video games, and Marco Rossi ranks third with 25 in 31 video games.
Kaprizov has scored twice in every of his previous two video games. He has 13 factors in his previous 10 video games.
Florida may return to Sergei Bobrovsky after he gave up 5 objectives on 30 pictures in Monday’s win. Bobrovsky is 14-6-1 with a 2.98 goals-against common and an .889 save proportion in 21 video games.
In 20 profession video games towards Minnesota, Bobrovsky is 13-5-1 with a 2.37 GAA and a .918 save proportion.
Spencer Knight is another choice for the Panthers. He’s 5-5-1 with a 2.85 GAA and an .890 save proportion in 12 video games. Knight has confronted Minnesota as soon as in a backup position. He stopped all six pictures he confronted and didn’t issue into the choice.
Fleury isn’t any stranger to dealing with Florida. In 32 video games towards the Panthers, he’s 18-10-2 with a 2.29 GAA and a .922 save proportion.
The Wild are 8-5-1 at residence. The Panthers are 10-6-1 on the street.
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