In St Paul Tuesday, Devan Dubnyk made 29 saves for the Minnesota Wild and five different skaters scored in a 5-1 drubbing of the Florida Panthers.
The win was the fifth straight for the Wild and Dubnyk is 5-0-0 in his last five starts.
“I loved the fact that we can spread it out and get five goals amongst three lines,” Minnesota coach Bruce Boudreau said. “You’d like it to be four lines. You can’t have everything.”
Defenseman Dylan McIlrath was the lone goal scorer for the Panthers.
“We knew coming in they were a disciplined, structured team,” McIlrath said. “They made it tough on us all night. I don’t think we did enough to create. Their goalie was seeing a lot of shots and we didn’t get to the net.”
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“Guys have got to understand that if you’re going to play in the National Hockey League you’ve got to show up every single day; [you] can’t show up when you feel like it,” an exasperated Florida head coach Tom Rowe said of his team’s effort.
Jason Zucker, Mikko Koivu, Erik Haula, Eric Staal, and Zach Parise all scored for the Wild.
“It’s a bad loss,” Panthers coach Tom Rowe said. “We didn’t generate enough scoring chances. We outshot them [30-22], I get it, but our shots were from the outside and we didn’t have enough guys going to the net.
“When you’re going through the rut that we’re going through right now offensively, everybody presses a little more and they don’t do what comes naturally.”
Roberto Luongo made 12 saves in the loss before being pulled in favor of James Reimer in the third period.
The Panthers were 0-for-7 on the power play Tuesday.
“Power plays, we’ve got to score. That’s a game-changer. We gave up way too many odd-man rushes to leave Luongo out to dry. I think that was the main key,” Florida’s Nick Bjugstad .
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