Minnesota Wild star forward Kirill Kaprizov did not play in Saturday’s road game against the Calgary Flames due to a lower-body injury.
Kaprizov, who entered Saturday tied with Colorado Avalanche star Nathan MacKinnon for the NHL lead with 34 points, was on the receiving end of a knee-on-knee collision with the Edmonton Oilers’ Drake Caggiula in Thursday’s game.
Kaprizov finished the game but did not practice on Friday.
“I thought it was a knee-on-knee hit,” Minnesota coach John Hynes said following his team’s 5-3 road victory over the Oilers. “Thankfully he came back and he looked good. Obviously, you don’t want to see those types of hits in the game.”
Kaprizov entered Saturday riding a franchise-record 11-game road point streak, with 24 points (eight goals, 16 assists). He also came in with a seven-game point streak, posting 13 points (six goals, seven assists).
The Wild traveled to Calgary with the best record in franchise history through 19 games (13-3-3), including an NHL-best 9-1-2 road mark.
Minnesota was also without forward Marat Khusnutdinov (lower body) and recalled forward Travis Boyd for Saturday’s game.
–Field Level Media
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