New York. It was pure May 7th in the NHL last night.
Mats Zuccarello completed a hat-trick as Minnesota beat table-top Chicago – and in total the now hot Norwegian has scored in nine straight matches.
– I am in a period when everything feels good and self-confidence increases, he says after the 4-1 victory.
After an unusually slow start to the season, the Minnesota Wild has recently begun to perform up to par with expectations and pick up actual wins.
One of the main reasons:
The best Norwegian of all time is in holy shoals. He’s close to a club-record nine consecutive points, and against Chicago last night, the ketchup bottle came out on top, Christer Abrees said.
“Zuke” scored three goals thus completing the second hat-trick of his NHL career – and was also responsible for assisting on the Wild’s fourth goal as well.
– During the season you go through different phases. Sometimes it feels like nothing is working, and you don’t think you’re getting any bounce back with you. Then there are periods when everything feels fine and self-confidence begins to grow. I’m in one of those now, explains the Oslo boy when he met the media at the Xcel Energy Centre.
Joel Erickson contributed assistance.
The Calgary Flames are really struggling right now. They suffered their fifth straight loss last night – 5-2 at home against the St. Louis Cardinals. Louis.
– We were sloppy the whole game. We have to look ourselves in the mirror and start playing better, sighs Elias Lindholm, who helped hit home runs but wasn’t too happy about it.
It started well for the New York Islanders against the Coyotes at Mullett Arena.
Sweden’s fullback Sebastian Aho – yes, he shares a name with Karolina’s Finnish star – was already stunned 1-0 less than two minutes later and a little later in the first period Matt Barzal increased the score to 2-0.
But Arizona, who had been screaming a lot at the end, turned around and eventually won 5-4.