Looking back at last season, the Wild swept the season series against Edmonton, winning all three games and outscoring the Oilers 13-5, including a 1-0 shutout win at Rogers Place on Dec. 2.<\/p>\n
Per Stats Perform, The Wild is 14-4-0 (.778) against the Oilers since 2019-20. It\u2019s the best record by any NHL team against Edmonton over the last eight seasons. Minnesota is 21-5-0 (.808) against the Oilers\u00a0in\u00a0Edmonton since 2010-11. That marks the second-best road record by one NHL team versus another over that span (minimum: 20 games), behind the Capitals at Montreal (19-3-2, .833).<\/p>\n
Tonight will be a battle of the 97\u2019s. Kirill Kaprizov for Minnesota, Connor McDavid for Edmonton. Kaprizov enters as the only player in the NHL with double-digit goals (10), while also ranking sixth in points (10-5=15). He is also riding a six-game point-streak (7-5=12), tied for the third-longest active streak in the NHL.<\/p>\n
McDavid on the other hand, enters with a league-leading 23 points (6-17=23), and has scored in eight consecutive games.\u00a0He is coming off a five point (2-3=5) outing against the Utah Mammoth on Saturday night and became the eighth player in NHL history to record 23 or more points through the first eight games of a season.<\/p>\n
In the Crease:<\/p>\n
Jesper Wallstedt\u00a0gets the start tonight for Minnesota. He\u2019s won four consecutive starts, posting a 2.34 GAA and a .891 SV% over that span. His current streak is tied for the second-longest active streak and tied for the third-longest streak in the NHL this season. He has two career starts against Edmonton, both of which came last season, and has a 2-0-0 record with a 1.50 GAA, a .960 SV% and one shutout.<\/p>\n
Devon Levi\u00a0will start for Edmonton tonight. He enters play with a 4-1-0 record, a 2.83 GAA and a .898 SV%. He won his first four starts of the season before losing to Utah, 4-2, on Oct. 15. Levi has only faced Minnesota one time in his career, stopping 33-of-35 shots faced en route to a 3-2 win on Nov. 10, 2023, when he was with Buffalo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Looking back at last season, the Wild swept the season series against Edmonton, winning all three games and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":935476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-935475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=935475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/935476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}