Minnesota Wild vs San Jose Sharks
Regular season · Saturday, April 24, 2021 · SAP Center at San Jose
NBCSCA · BSN · BSWI
Game summary
The Minnesota Wild beat the San Jose Sharks 6-3 on Saturday, April 24, 2021 at SAP Center at San Jose. The Sharks outshot the Wild 30-26.
Goals came from Ryan Suter, Marcus Foligno, Jared Spurgeon, Kevin Fiala, Logan Couture, Kirill Kaprizov, Evander Kane, Joachim Blichfeld and Nick Bonino.
Kaapo Kahkonen made 27 saves on 30 shots for the win; Josef Korenar stopped 15 of 17.
Three stars
Scoring
1st period
Ryan Suter (2)Jordan Greenway (22)1–000:19 MIN
Marcus Foligno (9)Joel Eriksson Ek (10)2–012:00 MIN
Jared Spurgeon (6)Ryan Hartman (13), Mats Zuccarello (19)3–017:43 MIN
2nd period
Kevin Fiala (17)Marcus Johansson (8), Jared Spurgeon (13)4–019:10 MIN
3rd period
Logan Couture (15)Timo Meier (18), Rudolfs Balcers (9)4–101:19 SJS
Kirill Kaprizov (22)Kevin Fiala (15), Nick Bonino (13)5–104:28 MIN · PPG
Evander Kane (18)Tomas Hertl (16), Nikolai Knyzhov (7)5–204:47 SJS
Joachim Blichfeld (1)Unassisted5–306:06 SJS
Nick Bonino (7)Ian Cole (6)6–319:38 MIN · EN
Team stats
MINSJS
26Shots on goal30
43%Faceoff %57%
1/3Power play0/0
0Penalty minutes6
12Hits26
9Blocked shots16
7Giveaways8
7Takeaways7
Penalties
- 1st 05:26
Bench · too many men on the ice2 min - 3rd 04:08Rudolfs Balcers · hooking2 min
- 3rd 15:42Brent Burns · slashing2 min
Season series
Minnesota Wild
| 13Nick BoninoC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 2 | 14:41 |
| 22Kevin FialaL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 3 | 14:30 |
| 46Jared SpurgeonD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 1 | 20:48 |
| 14Joel Eriksson EkC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 15:11 |
| 17Marcus FolignoL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 16:07 |
| 18Jordan GreenwayL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 15:49 |
| 36Mats ZuccarelloC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 17:25 |
| 38Ryan HartmanR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 15:11 |
| 90Marcus JohanssonL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 14:24 |
| 97Kirill KaprizovL | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 4 | 17:12 |
| 20Ryan SuterD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +3 | 1 | 21:23 |
| 28Ian ColeD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 16:48 |
| 7Nico SturmC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 12:42 |
| 11Zach PariseL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 11:53 |
| 49Victor RaskC | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 1 | 16:56 |
| 21Carson SoucyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15:34 |
| 24Mathew DumbaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 1 | 21:47 |
| 25Jonas BrodinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21:39 |
| Goalie | DEC | SA | SV | GA | SV% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33Cam TalbotG | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 00:00 | |
| 34Kaapo KahkonenG | W | 30 | 27 | 3 | .900 | 60:00 |
San Jose Sharks
| 9Evander KaneL | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 4 | 18:25 |
| 28Timo MeierR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 19:17 |
| 39Logan CoutureC | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 3 | 15:35 |
| 48Tomas HertlC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 17:34 |
| 86Joachim BlichfeldL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 07:50 |
| 92Rudolfs BalcersL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 16:15 |
| 71Nikolai KnyzhovD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 16:47 |
| 7Dylan GambrellC | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 2 | 17:36 |
| 12Patrick MarleauC | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 15:27 |
| 16Ryan DonatoC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 08:19 |
| 43John LeonardL | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 1 | 13:52 |
| 62Kevin LabancR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 15:04 |
| 73Noah GregorC | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 2 | 10:21 |
| 2Greg PaterynD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15:24 |
| 38Mario FerraroD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 20:27 |
| 44Marc-Edouard VlasicD | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 3 | 19:58 |
| 65Erik KarlssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 2 | 23:26 |
| 88Brent BurnsD | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 24:11 |
| Goalie | DEC | SA | SV | GA | SV% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Martin JonesG | 8 | 5 | 3 | .625 | 20:00 | |
| 32Josef KorenarG | L | 17 | 15 | 2 | .882 | 39:52 |