The Florida Panthers began a short two-game road trip in the central time zone and were edged by the Minnesota Wild 2-1 at Xcel Energy Center on Thursday night. The Panthers moved to 16-6-11 in one-goal games this season. The Wild are now 8-0-1 in their last nine games and 9-1-2 in their previous 12.
In the first period, Minnesota(27-20-7) moved out to a quick lead at 4:12. Mikko Koivu sent a cross-ice pass from the left wing to the low slot where Jason Pominville redirected the puck off his right skate by Roberto Luongo.
The Wild got the game-winning goal on the power play at 6:52 of the second period as Zach Parise scored his 22nd goal of the season. Koivu passed the puck from behind the Cats cage to Thomas Vanek in the low right circle. His shot was saved but Parise poked in the rebound from left of the crease.
Minnesota native Nick Bjugstad cut the lead down to 2-1 for Florida(24-18-11) at 9:53. Jussi Jokinen connected a pass from the high slot to Bjugstad at the right circle dot. His wrist shot from the low right circle went over the left shoulder of Devan Dubnyk and into the top shelf of the net for his 19th goal this season.
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