Posts About "Mats Zuccarello"
Staal, Zuccarello Lead Wild Past Red Wings 4-2
January 23rd, 2020 ST. PAUL, Minn. — Eric Staal and Mats Zuccarello each had a goal and assist, and Devan Dubnyk stopped 25 shots as the Minnesota Wild beat the Detroit Red Wings 4-2 on Wednesday night. Jordan Greenway and Jason Zucker also scored for Minnesota, which enters the All-Star break with three wins in four games. The streak comes in the...
Wild Score 3 Times in Third Period, Rally Past Avs 6-4
December 27th, 2019 DENVER — Mats Zuccarello and Victor Rask scored in a 1:17 span in the third period and the Minnesota Wild rallied past the Colorado Avalanche 6-4 on Friday night. Devan Dubnyk made 14 of his 40 saves in the third period for the Wild, who have taken two...
Wild Score 8 Goals in Final 2 Periods, Coyotes’ Kuemper Hurt
December 20th, 2019 GLENDALE, Ariz. — Marcus Foligno and Mats Zuccarello each had a goal and two assists and the Minnesota Wild beat the Arizona Coyotes 8-5 on Thursday night. The Wild snapped a three-game losing streak, scoring eight goals on 33 shots, including an empty...
Nosek Helps Vegas Get First Regulation Win over Wild, 3-2
December 18th, 2019 LAS VEGAS — Tomas Nosek scored his first goal in nearly a month, Marc-Andre Fleury made 24 saves and the Vegas Golden Knights beat the Minnesota Wild 3-2 on Tuesday night. Chandler Stephenson and Shea Theodore also scored to help the Golden Knights get...
New York Rangers' 2010s All-Decade Team
December 16th, 2019 The 2010s will go down as probably one of the most memorable decades for the New York Rangers and its fans, filled with various peaks and valleys, memorable moments and forgettable ones. It also featured plenty of names throw on the blue sweater, but only a handful can be picked for an All-Decade Team. As The Athletic's Rick...
Zuccarello Leads Streaking Wild to 5-4 Win over Lightning
December 5th, 2019 TAMPA, Fla. — Mats Zuccarello had a goal and two assists as the Minnesota Wild won their fifth consecutive game, 5-4 over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Thursday night. Joel Eriksson Ek, Jason Zucker, Carson Soucy and Victor Rask also scored for the Wild, who have an 11-game point streak (8-0-3). Alex Stalock stopped 30 shots. Tampa...
Zuccarello, Staal Lead Wild's Rally to 4-2 Win over Ducks
November 6th, 2019 ANAHEIM, Calif. — Mats Zuccarello scored the tying breakaway goal and got an assist on Eric Staal's go-ahead goal early in the third period, and the Minnesota Wild snapped their five-game road losing streak with a 4-2 victory over the Anaheim Ducks on ...
Wild Top Avalanche on Zuccarello's 3 Points
September 21st, 2019 Mats Zuccarello scored the deciding goal and had two assists to lead the Minnesota Wild to a 4-3 win over the Colorado Avalanche on Saturday night in NHL preseason play in St. Paul, Minnesota. Zuccarello, signed to five-year, $30 million free agent con...
Top-5 Norwegians in NHL History
July 18th, 2019 The very first Norwegian player in NHL history was the late Bjørn Skaare. Originally from the Norway capital of Oslo, Skaare was blessed with plenty of natural talent. In an era when there was still the (highly) wrongful stereotype that Scandinavian players simply were not tough enough to play in the league, Skaare had the skill to...
Stars’ Offseason Additions and Subtractions
July 13th, 2019 The Dallas Stars’ roster will see a surprising turnover after finishing the season one goal shy of their first Western Conference Final appearance since 2008. Only considering players who played at least 20 NHL games in 2018-19 (Marc Methot’s injury-riddled year being the one exception), there are three new arrivals and six...
2019 NHL Offseason: 7 Teams Trending Down
July 9th, 2019 Through the first week of free agency and almost a month into the NHL offseason — since the St. Louis Blues hoisted the Stanley Cup on June 12 — several teams have taken a step back on paper and will have their work cut out for them going forward. Granted, there are still some quality players available on the open market — Jake...
Wild's Zuccarello is Perfect Fit...For Now
July 3rd, 2019 The Minnesota Wild made a big splash in free agency when they added former New York Rangers and Dallas Stars forward Mats Zuccarello. The contract came in at five years, with an average annual value (AAV) of $6 million. Zuccarello now becomes the Wild's second-highest paid forward, trailing only Zach Parise, but for a team that has...
Wild Bolster Attack With a Pair of Signings
July 2nd, 2019 The 2018-19 season for the Minnesota Wild did not go as planned. For the first time in seven years the Wild found themselves on their couches watching the playoffs. The train went off the rails when they lost defenseman Matt Dumba for the season with a ruptured pectoral muscle. The Wild had a record of 17-13-2 at the time of his...
