Tonight: Jets at Wild

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Game 4, Winnipeg Jets at Minnesota Wild

(Jets lead best-of-seven opening-round series 2-1)

About the WILD

– Coming off a convincing 6-2 romp over the Jets on Sunday, Minnesota will be looking to even the best-of-seven opening-round series tonight in the friendly confines of Xcel Energy Center.

– Veteran C Mikko Koivu set up first-period power-play goals by RW Mikael Granlund and LW Zach Parise in a huge win to get back into the series, and leads the club with four points, all helpers. Parise, meanwhile, has three goals, while Granlund has a goal and a pair of assists.

– G Devan Dubnyk started his third straight game, allowing two goals on 31 shots in Game 3. Winnipeg RW Blake Wheeler bounced one in off the side of his pads early in the game and D Tyler Myers sailed a long-range shot past him in the second period. But he made a brilliant save off LW Nikolaj Ehlers with the Jets on the power play and the Wild holding a slim 3-2 lead.

– LW Marcus Foligno had three hits, including a hard check on D Jacob Trouba just minutes into the game. He fell into Myers late in the second period, and the Winnipeg blue-liner was injured on the play. Replays showed Foligno might have used his fist to jab at Myers’ knee as they were falling.

– The Wild killed off four of five Winnipeg power plays, and lit the lamp twice on three opportunities with the man advantage.

 

MINNESOTA WILD

32 Alex Stalock G

40 Devan Dubnyk G

3 Charlie Coyle C

7 Matt Cullen C

9 Mikko Koivu C

11 Zach Parise LW

12 Eric Staal C

14 Joel Eriksson Ek C

16 Jason Zucker LW

17 Marcus Foligno LW

18 Jordan Greenway LW

22 Nino Niederreiter RW

24 Matt Dumba D

25 Jonas Brodin D

26 Daniel Winnik LW

36 Nick Seeler D

39 Nate Prosser D

46 Jared Spurgeon D

47 Louie Belpedio D

60 Carson Soucy D

63 Tyler Ennis LW

64 Mikael Granlund RW

Head coach: Bruce Boudreau

Assistant coaches: John Anderson, Bob Woods, Darby Hendrickson

Goalie coach: Bob Mason

 

WINNIPEG JETS

35 Steve Mason G

37 Connor Hellebuyck G

3 Tucker Poolman D

7 Ben Chiarot D

8 Jacob Trouba D

9 Andrew Copp C

13 Brandon Tanev LW

16 Shawn Matthias LW

17 Adam Lowry C

18 Bryan Little C

25 Paul Stastny C

26 Blake Wheeler RW

27 Nikolaj Ehlers LW

29 Patrik Laine RW

33 Dustin Byfuglien D

40 Joel Armia RW

44 Josh Morrissey D

52 Jack Roslovic RW

55 Mark Scheifele C

56 Marko Dano LW

57 Tyler Myers D

70 Joe Morrow D

81 Kyle Connor LW

85 Mathieu Perreault LW

Head coach: Paul Maurice

Assistant coaches: Charlie Huddy, Jamie Kompon, Todd Woodcroft

Goalie coach: Wade Flaherty

(lineups subject to change)

— Jason Bell