Tonight at 8:30 p.m. ET, the Minnesota Wild and Chicago Blackhawks take the ice at the United Center for Game 2 of their Round 2 Western Conference best-of-seven series as part of the Stanley Cup playoffs.
Minnesota looks to tie the series up before it shifts back home while Chicago hopes to take a 2-0 lead on home ice.
The Blackhawks topped the Wild 4-3 in Game 1 on Friday to take a 1-0 series lead.
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Brandon Sadd (3), Patrick Kane (3) and Marcus Kruger (1) each scored to stake the Blackhawks to a 3-0 lead in the first period.
Jason Zucker (2), Zach Parise (4, power play) and Mikael Granlund then lit the lamp for the Wild to knot the score at 3-3 in the second period.
Teuvo Teravainen scored with less than a minute left to give the Blackhawks a 4-3 lead they never released.
Duncan Kieth leads Chicago with nine points in the playoffs off of two goals and seven assists while Kane and Joathan Toews have eight points off of three markers and five tallies apiece.
Parise paces Minnesota with nine points in these playoffs while Granlund has six and Jason Pominville has five.
In the crease, the Wild turns to Devan Dubnyk and he is 4-3 with a 2.58 goals-against average and a .908 save percentage in the playoffs.
The Blackhawks counter with Corey Crawford and he is 2-1 with a 3.81 GAA and a .871 save percentage this postseason.
The Wild and Blackhawks face-off in Game 2 when the puck drops live tonight from the United Center in Chicago.
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