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Mats Zuccarello

Mats Zuccarello

#36, RW,
Minnesota Wild
G
12
A
51
Pts
63
+/-
-5
PPP
33
SOG
173
Bio
Height/Weight: 5' 8"/181 lbs
Born: Oslo, Norway
Draft: Undrafted
Shoots: L
  • Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.

    Wild have options to get better in 2024-25, just not a lot of them

    The Wild would have enormous capacity to improve their team this offseason if it weren’t for that meddling dead cap space. That will have to wait another year. In the meantime, general manager Bill Guerin believes he still can make his team a contender in 2024-25. “We want to win now,” Guerin said Friday, a day after the 2023-24 season officially ended with a 4-3 loss to Seattle at Xcel Energy ...

  • Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.

    Kraken use short-handed breakaways to rally past Wild in season finale

    The Wild finished their 2023-24 season on Thursday with a 4-3 loss to the Seattle Kraken at Xcel Energy Center. It was, naturally, disappointing. Already out of the postseason for just the second time in 12 seasons, the Wild blew a 1-0 first-period lead in their last game to go into a long season with a bitter taste in their mouths. “We all had the mind to make the playoffs, be in the hunt, ...

  • Gourde scores short-handed twice for Kraken in win against Wild

    Matty Beniers and Tye Kartye also scored for Seattle (34-35-13), which had lost four straight. Joey Daccord made 21 saves. Kirill Kaprizov , Mats Zuccarello and Ryan Hartman scored for Minnesota (39-34-9), which had won two in a row. Marc-Andre Fleury made 23 saves. Kaprizov gave Minnesota a 1-0 lead on the power play at 4:04 of the first period, scoring with a wrist shot shot from left circle. He has 20 goals in his past 21 games. Beniers tied it 1-1 at 11:00 of the second period with a power-play goal, tipping in Jaden Schwartz's shot through traffic. Gourde put Seattle ahead 2-1 at 6:38 of the third period. Brandon Tanev won the puck from Declan Chisholm in the neutral zone and sprung Gourde