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Minnesota (31-17-4) at Ottawa (27-20-4)
Saturday, 7 p.m., Canadian Tire Centre
TV: SN1 Radio: TSN 1200
Odds: Ottawa -122 Minnesota -102
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WILD RIDE FOR FLEURY
It was an emotional scene Thursday in Montreal. Wild goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury, who performed what’s going to probably be his remaining recreation in Montreal, shut out the Canadiens 4-0.
After the sport, Canadiens gamers waited to congratulate Fleury, who’s from Sorel-Tracy and grew up a Habs fan, for what has been a Corridor-of-Fame NHL profession.
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Fleury has now recorded no less than one shutout in 21 completely different seasons, passing Terry Sawchuk and tying Martin Brodeur for the very best complete in NHL historical past. Fleury additionally turned the primary goaltender in league historical past to report a shutout as an adolescent and at 40 years or older.
It’s extremely unlikely the 40-year-old Fleury will get the beginning in opposition to Ottawa on Saturday. The Wild will most likely go along with former Senator Filip Gustavsson, who has 20 wins with a 2.56 goals-against common this season.
RETURN OF ULLMARK, PART II
It’s the million-dollar query: Will Linus Ullmark return, lastly, for Saturday’s recreation?
The reply isn’t a definitive sure … but.
However he has been absolutely practising, so a return in opposition to the Wild is sensible.
Ullmark has missed 16 video games, however was steaming-hot earlier than the harm, with an 8-0-1 report in his earlier 9 appearances (1.43 goals-against common and a .960 save proportion).
When the Senators beat the Wild 3-1 on Dec. 29, they’d Leevi Merilainen in aim.
The Senators have now received three straight video games and are 7-2-1 of their previous 10.
IT’S SHORTIE SEASON
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Whereas the Senators are simply 18th-best within the NHL on the penalty kill (78.4% effectivity), they’re transferring up the checklist in shorthanded targets.
With two shorties over a span of 38 seconds within the second interval of Thursday’s 5-4 additional time win over Washington (Josh Norris on a penalty shot and Shane Pinto), Ottawa now has seven on the season — fourth-best within the NHL.
The Florida Panthers lead the NHL with 11 shorthanded targets and Sam Reinhart has 5 of these.
Pinto, Norris and Ridly Greig every have two shorthanded targets for Ottawa.
ROSTERS
OTTAWA
Forwards
Tkachuk/Stutzle/Giroux
Perron/Norris/Batherson
Greig/Pinto/Amadio
Highmore/Ostapachuk/Gaudette
Defencemen
Sanderson/Zub
Chabot/Hamonic
Kleven/Matinpalo
Goaltenders
Forsberg/Merilainen/Ullmark
MINNESOTA
Forwards
Boldy/Eriksson Ek/Zuccarello
Foligno/Rossi/Hartman
Ohgren/Gaudreau/Trenin
Shore/Khusnutdinov/Lauko
Defencemen
Middleton/Faber
Chisholm/Spurgeon
Merrill/Bogosian
Goaltenders
Gustavsson/Fleury
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INJURIES
Ottawa: F Nick Cousins (knee, out for 6-8 weeks) D Jacob Bernard-Docker (high-ankle sprain, six weeks); F Noah Gregor (decrease physique, out for a prolonged interval); D Nick Jensen (unspecified harm, day after day).
Minnesota: F Kirill Kaprizov (decrease physique, week to week), F Marcus Johansson (higher physique, IR), D Jonas Brodin (decrease physique, long-term IR).
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