{"id":219193,"date":"2025-10-12T13:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T13:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/219193\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T13:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T13:05:09","slug":"wilds-home-opener-spoiled-by-loss-to-columbus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/219193\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild’s home opener spoiled by loss to Columbus"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Inaugural Wild coach Jacques Lemaire, middle, stands at center ice before a ceremonial puck drop Saturday night. From left are former GM Doug Risebrough, ex-goalies coach Bob Mason, and former assistants Mike Ramsey and Mario Tremblay. (Jeff Wheeler\/The Minnesota Star Tribune)<\/p>\n

Overall, the Blues Jackets won 62% of faceoffs.<\/p>\n

\u201cHas to be better,\u201d coach John Hynes<\/a> said. \u201cObviously, faceoffs is a big part of the centerman, yes. But I also think there\u2019s a lot of 50-50 pucks, too, in the faceoff circle that your wings and your \u2018D\u2019 also have to help and touch pucks first.\u201d<\/p>\n

Later in the second, Matt Boldy<\/a> buried a loose puck on the power play at 6:18 for his second goal in as many games. Columbus challenged the play, but video review determined the contact Eriksson Ek made with Elvis Merzlikins<\/a> was outside the crease, so it didn\u2019t qualify as goalie interference. <\/p>\n

The Blue Jackets were dinged with a delay-of-game penalty and then another for shooting the puck over the glass.<\/p>\n

Seconds after the 5-on-3 expired, Kirill Kaprizov<\/a> one-timed in a puck from along the goal line at 8:24 to pull the Wild even with his first goal of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inaugural Wild coach Jacques Lemaire, middle, stands at center ice before a ceremonial puck drop Saturday night. From…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-219193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}