Litter Box Cats · Jan 3, 2018
Streak ends as Wild skate to easy 5-1 win over Panthers
The Minnesota Wild easily snapped the Florida Panthers five-game winning streak with an dominant 5-1 victory at Xcel Energy Center.
Florida got off to a decent start in the early going, which saw a fight between Michael Haley and Marcus Foligno, but quickly wilted to the bigger, more determined Wild and fell behind with 5:39 left in the opening frame when former Panther Matt Cullen lunged to knock in a juicy rebound of Jared Spurgeon’s shot from the point. Daniel Winnik drew the secondary assist, feeding Spuregeon after getting away from Nick Bjugstad in the corner.