Minnesota Russian forward Kirill Kaprizov scored 2 points in the match with Ottawa, scoring an important goal, video – October 28, 2022
Maksim Zamyatin
Before the game with the Senators, the Russian did not score points for two matches.
The unsuccessful start of Minnesota in the current regular season has collected a lot of talk about the professional suitability of the head coach Dean Evasonand about the staffing of the team by the general manager Bill Guerinand about Kirill Kaprizov. The Russian, like the whole team, played unevenly, was the anti-leader in terms of utility, but the meeting of criticism ran away. And in the match with Ottawa, the entire Savages team slightly straightened their reputation.
The Senators scored first, and early enough, but unexpectedly, Minnesota corrected the situation. First of all, this happened thanks to a bunch of Kaprizov and Mats Zuccarello, who realized most of the events. And towards the end of the first period, Kirill scored his third goal in the case and put the Wild ahead. It turned out atypical for Kaprizov: the Russian on the patch corrected the puck after a long throw from the defender Jared Spurgeon.
“That was a great pass!”, – said Kaprizov after the match, confirming that the situation was understandable and predictable for him. Kaprizov finished the match with a score of +1, making 4 shots in 18 minutes and 50 seconds of playing time.
“I think that today our team played just great. We played a damn good opponent. I’ve talked about this before, Ottawa has everything to be an effective team – perseverance, responsiveness, technique. We also showed character and were able to win.”Evason said after the game.
“Yes, today we were a team that had all four links working, no one dropped out”– confirmed Mats Zuccarello.