A week after finishing up a northeast road trip, the Minnesota Wild are now on a southeast trip. It began Tuesday night with a game against the Florida Panthers as the Wild put their nine-game point streak and three-game winning streak on the line against the team in second place in the Atlantic Division.
It was a matchup of brand new goalies Tuesday night. Kaapo Kahkonen was making the second start of his NHL career after an impressive debut one week ago against New Jersey. Opposite him in goal for the Panthers was Chris Driedger, who was also making his second start.