San Jose Sharks (7-6-3, in the Pacific Division) vs. Minnesota Wild (7-7-3, in the Central Division)<\/p>\n
Saint Paul, Minnesota; Tuesday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The San Jose Sharks will attempt to keep a three-game win streak alive when they take on the Minnesota Wild.<\/p>\n
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Minnesota has a 4-3-2 record in home games and a 7-7-3 record overall. The Wild have a -8 scoring differential, with 49 total goals scored and 57 allowed.<\/p>\n
San Jose has a 3-3-0 record in road games and a 7-6-3 record overall. The Sharks have a -2 scoring differential, with 53 total goals scored and 55 given up.<\/p>\n
The teams square off Tuesday for the second time this season. The Sharks won the previous matchup 6-5 in overtime. William Eklund scored two goals in the win.<\/p>\n
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TOP PERFORMERS: Marcus Johansson has six goals and nine assists for the Wild. Kirill Kaprizov has five goals and seven assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Macklin Celebrini has 10 goals and 14 assists for the Sharks. Will Smith has scored six goals and added six assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Wild: 4-4-2, averaging three goals, 5.2 assists, 2.5 penalties and 7.5 penalty minutes while giving up 3.1 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Sharks: 7-2-1, averaging 3.7 goals, 6.2 assists, 3.6 penalties and 7.5 penalty minutes while giving up 2.5 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Wild: None listed.<\/p>\n
Sharks: None listed.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks (7-6-3, in the Pacific Division) vs. Minnesota Wild (7-7-3, in the Central Division) Saint Paul,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[11507,18749,1035,30480,4226,4227,1605,30479,88,90,89,98,13190,3578,2105],"class_list":{"0":"post-46399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-central-division","9":"tag-kirill-kaprizov","10":"tag-macklin-celebrini","11":"tag-marcus-johansson","12":"tag-minnesota","13":"tag-minnesota-wild","14":"tag-pacific-division","15":"tag-saint-paul","16":"tag-san-jose","17":"tag-san-jose-headlines","18":"tag-san-jose-news","19":"tag-san-jose-sharks","20":"tag-the-sharks","21":"tag-will-smith","22":"tag-william-eklund"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}