星/主役にするs 直面する Wild in search of third straight 勝利,勝つ
The Dallas 星/主役にするs will go for their third straight victory when they visit the Minnesota Wild on Sunday evening in St. Paul, Minn.
Dallas just notched road 勝利,勝つs against the Winnipeg Jets and the Columbus Blue Jackets in the past three days. The 星/主役にするs have won nine of their first 13 games, and are in first place in the Western 会議/協議会's Central 分割.
星/主役にするs coach Peter DeBoer likes what he is seeing from his team as it 準備するs to 直面する Minnesota. Dallas will be playing on short 残り/休憩(する) after a 3-2 勝利,勝つ over Winnipeg on Saturday evening.
"I thought maybe (it was) our best road game of the year," DeBoer said after the victory over Winnipeg. "I liked how we started. I liked us the entire 60 minutes. I thought we were tight, we were smart with the puck, we were 競争の激しい, built a lead. That's how you want to play on the road."
一方/合間, Minnesota is looking for better results after an underwhelming start to the season. The Wild are coming off 支援する-to-支援する losses, 含むing a 3-2 後退 on Friday against the Buffalo Sabres.
Wild coach Dean Evason said his players are 陳列する,発揮するing strong 成果/努力 but not getting the results on 罪/違反. As 圧力 開始するs during games to 得点する/非難する/20 more goals, one or two 防御の miscues can 悪化させる the problems.
"They're giving it everything they can to 得点する/非難する/20," Evason said. "We're getting lots of pucks on the 逮捕する. We're getting 質, 質 looks. They're just not going in the 逮捕する 権利 now."
The Wild's next 実験(する) likely will come against Jake Oettinger in 逮捕する, one night after Scott Wedgewood started for the 星/主役にするs against Winnipeg.
The 24-year-old Oettinger is from Lakeville, Minn., which is about a half-hour south of St. Paul. He is 6- 2-1 with a 2.10 goals-against 普通の/平均(する) and a .933 save 百分率 this season.
In seven career starts against the Wild, Oettinger is 4-0-1 with a 2.40 GAA and a .917 save 百分率.
Minnesota is 推定する/予想するd to 反対する with Filip Gustavsson in 逮捕する. It has been a trying start to the season for the 25-year-old from Sweden. He is 2-4-1 with a 4.64 GAA and an .872 save 百分率 through his first eight games.
Gustavsson has enjoyed success against the 星/主役にするs in his career. In four games, he is 3-1-0 with a 1.73 GAA and a .950 save 百分率.
Minnesota is 3-2-1 at home this season. Dallas is 6-1-1 on the road.
DeBoer said the 星/主役にするs' 現在の road trip, which ends with Sunday's game against divisional 競争相手 Minnesota, has been 正確に/まさに what his team needed.
"We had lost two in a 列/漕ぐ/騒動 there, and we 手配中の,お尋ね者 to come on the road and really get our game 支援する in the 権利 place," DeBoer said. "にもかかわらず standings or team's 記録,記録的な/記録するs, everybody's 競争の激しい at home 権利 now. 早期に in the season, everyone's got belief that they can get in the プレーオフs and everyone's playing hard. So these are 堅い games to 勝利,勝つ."
--Field Level マスコミ