9 p.m. at Seattle Kraken • Climate Pledge Arena • BSN, 100.3-FM
Gameday preview: Wild at Seattle
The Wild, already with positive COVID-19 tests on the fringes of the team, canceled practice Tuesday before its first-ever game against the Kraken.
October 28, 2021 at 1:32AM
Wild update: The Wild (5-1) was scheduled to practice Wednesday in Seattle but canceled the session. Three coaches — assistant Darby Hendrickson, goaltending coach Frederic Chabot and video coach T.J. Jindra — are in the NHL's COVID protocols. Wild players are vaccinated and subject to testing at least every three days. Under the league's guidelines, a player is to isolate after testing positive. A confirmatory test is performed on the same sample; if that result turns out to be negative, a player has to test negative twice more in a 48-hour span to be confirmed negative and exit isolation. As for a positive case, that player must isolate for at least 10 days since the onset of symptoms.
Kraken update: Seattle is coming off its first victory at home, upending Montreal 5-1 on Tuesday at Climate Pledge Arena. The win snapped a four-game losing streak for the Kraken, which is 2-4-1 overall. LW Brandon Tanev scored twice that game and has a team-high five goals through seven games. LW Jared McCann leads the Kraken in points with seven. Seattle's roster includes former Wild Fs Ryan Donato and Marcus Johansson and D Carson Soucy, whom the Kraken selected from the Wild in the expansion draft.
The Wild are off to one of the best starts in franchise history, and Kirill Kaprizov is tied for the NHL scoring lead.
