At home you get to do good stuff, but all off days are good days. You get to reset and take care of your body,” Wild captain Jared Spurgeon said.
The big question with a bit more than 24 hours until the deadline: Will the Wild employ LTIR to create cap space for a big addition?
To me that’s a great lesson for us moving forward and it’s better to win and learn some lessons than lose and learn some lessons,” John Hynes said.
Marcus Foligno smacked Filip Gustavsson’s goalie pad with his stick repeatedly in praise, and Brock Faber stood at the Wild bench and offered fist-bumps to the penalty killers as they arrived for a break.
Johansson has four helpers over the last three contests. He continues to mesh well with linemates Frederick Gaudreau and Mats Zuccarello -- Johansson set up one goal for each of them in the second period.
The Minnesota Wild were light on cap space two years ago and high on ambition. Bill Guerin didn’t want to give up substantial assets, so he traded a 2024 third-rounder for Marcus Johansson and a fifth for Gustav Nyquist.
Marcus Johansson, Director, IT, Advanced Grid, Xcel Energy, will discuss digital twins from the utility perspective at DTECH.
The Wild, who were blown out in each of their past two road games, improved to a league-best 22-9-3 (47 points) on the road.
Johansson tallied an assist on the game-winning goal in Sunday's 1-0 win over Boston.
Jared Spurgeon, Mats Zuccarello and Frederick Gaudreau each had a goal and an assist and Filip Gustavsson made 33 saves, including one on a penalty shot, as the Minnesota Wild held on to defeat the host Seattle Kraken 4-3 Tuesday night.
Shane Wright scored on the power play and Kaapo Kakko added a pair of assists for the Seattle Kraken, but they couldn't dig out of a three-goal deficit in a 4-3 loss to the Minnesota Wild on Tuesday night.