BLUES VS. WILD
When: Friday, April 9 at 7 p.m.
Where: Enterprise Center in St. Louis, MO
Watch: Bally Sports Midwest, FOX Sports GO
Listen: 101 ESPN, NHL App
Season series presented by Purina Pro Plan: Wild lead 1-0
The St. Louis Blues and Minnesota Wild will meet seven more times before the end of the 2020-21 regular season. The second meeting between the teams is Friday.
TEAM SNAPSHOTS
BLUES Vladimir Tarasenko, Sammy Blais and Jake Walman scored Wednesday to lift the Blues to a 3-1 win against the Vegas Golden Knights, snapping a seven-game winless skid.
Jordan Binnington made 50 saves, setting a new career high – just one short of the regular-season record held by Wayne Stephenson (1974) and Curtis Joseph (1992).
“Everybody is obviously happy,” Blues Head Coach Craig Berube said after the game. “We want to win. It was a good win. The team battled hard… Binner lead the way.”
The Blues find themselves in fifth place in the West Division, three points behind the Arizona Coyotes for the final playoff spot. The Coyotes have played one more game than the Blues.
WILD The Minnesota Wild are coming off of a series split with the Colorado Avalanche, but goal scoring hasn’t been a problem.
On Monday, the Wild dropped a 5-4 decision. On Wednesday, they put eight goals on the division-leading Avalanche and ended Colorado’s point streak at 15 games.
Kevin Fiala had a hat trick Wednesday, rookie Kirill Kaprizov had two goals and an assist, and Cam Talbot made 29 saves for Minnesota.
The Wild have won three of their last four games and sit third in the division with 50 points (24-12-2).
THE SERIES SO FAR
March 25: Wild 2, Blues 0
The Blues fired 37 shots on goal and limited the Wild to only 11 shots, but still fell 2-0 at Xcel Energy Center. Cam Talbot recorded a 37-save shutout to extend Minnesota’s home winning streak to 11 games.
