Tonight at 8:00 p.m. the Winnipeg Jets (2-1-0, 4 points) will travel to Minnesota to take on the Wild (0-1-2, 2 points), who haven't managed to get into the win column yet this season. Live stream the game here; Jets fans can listen to the action on TSN Radio 1290, while fans of the Wild can catch the radio broadcast on K-FAN FM 100.3.
The Wild dropped their last game on Tuesday to the Nashville Predators, one of the worst teams in the NHL last season, as goalie Niklas Backstrom was hurt in a collision with Eric Nystrom, who wound up netting his first ever goal on a penalty shot.
He was replaced by Josh Harding, who is expected to man the crease tonight against Winnipeg "I give Harding credit," coach Mike Yeo said. "That's a really difficult situation to come into and giving up the goal that way, and then he battled hard all game in net. So I give him an awful lot of credit and I give our guys credit too because it would have been easy to feel sorry for ourselves."
The Jets also dropped their most recent game to the Anaheim Ducks, falling to 2-1. Despite a nice start record-wise, head coach Claude Noel's not pleased with the way the Jets have played. "If you look at the way we played, we didn't deserve to win the game playing that way," Noel said. "We got saved by our goalie (Ondrej Pavelec). And realistically, our goalie has saved us in all three games (this season). He's been superb. Not average, superb."
Indeed, Pavelec has registered a .907 save percentage through three tilts, while clocking in at second in the NHL with 108 shots against. He trails Jonathan Quick of the Los Angeles Kings, and Craig Anderson of the Ottawa Senators, who have both faced just one shot more.
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