Detroit Lakes, MN (KDLM) – The Minnesota Wild have won four of their last five games and will try to string together back-to-back victories tonight when they visit the Philadelphia Flyers. Puck drop is at 6:00 p.m. Central time.
Minnesota is coming off a 5-1 win at Washington on Sunday. Michael McCarron scored the game-winning goal, Danila Yurov scored on the power play, and Kirill Kaprizov added an empty-netter. Joel Eriksson Ek and Bobby Brink each had two assists as the Wild went 2-for-5 on the power play.
The win came after a 4-3 overtime loss at home to the New York Islanders on Thursday, which ended a three-game winning streak. All four wins in the last five games came on the road, and the Wild have outscored their opponents 20-9 over that stretch.
At 10-3-3, Minnesota sits first in the Central Division and second in the Western Conference behind Edmonton.
The Flyers are 4-8-4 and seventh in the eight-team Metropolitan Division. Philadelphia went winless through its first nine games of the season but enters tonight’s game after beating Utah 6-3 on Sunday, which snapped a three-game losing streak.
After tonight’s game, the Wild return home to host San Jose on Friday and Tampa Bay on Saturday. Both games start at 7:00 p.m.
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