Wild gameday: Three home games to finish regular season starts with Coyotes

The Wild is trying to get the second seed and home ice for its playoff series against the Blues.

April 25, 2022 at 10:07PM
Wild players mobbed Dmitry Kulikov (7) after he scored the game-winner in overtime Sunday in Nashville. (Mark Zaleski, Associated Press/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Wild gameday

7 p.m. Tuesday vs. Arizona • Xcel Energy Center • Ch. 23, 100.3-FM

Coyotes update: Arizona is last in the Central Division and Western Conference and second-to-last overall in the NHL. The Coyotes have dropped 10 in a row and 17 of 19, but they have earned a point in two of their past three games. Most recently, they fell to the Blues 5-4 in overtime Saturday. Leading scorer Clayton Keller is out after suffering a fractured leg last month. In two previous losses to the Wild this season, Arizona has been outscored 10-4.

Wild update: The Wild returns to St. Paul to close out the regular season on a 10-game point streak (8-0-2). Since March 16, the Wild has a league-high 37 points from a 17-1-3 run. At home, the Wild is on a 13-game point streak (12-0-1) that is tied for the longest in franchise history. The team has 29 victories at the X and can set a new record with one more. RW Marcus Foligno is projected to return after going on the COVID-19 list last week and missing four games.

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Sarah McLellan

Minnesota Wild and NHL

Sarah McLellan covers the Wild and NHL. Before joining the Minnesota Star Tribune in November 2017, she spent five years covering the Coyotes for The Arizona Republic.

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