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Get your game notes: Flyers at Wild

Jason Pominville

Minnesota Wild’s Jason Pominville makes his home debut in an NHL hockey game against the Chicago Blackhawks against the Minnesota Wild Tuesday, April 9, 2013 in St. Paul. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

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Tonight on NBCSN, it’s the Minnesota Wild hosting the Philadelphia Flyers starting at 8 p.m. ET. Following are some game notes, as compiled by the NHL on NBC research team:

--- After scoring 10 goals in his first 15 games, Wild winger Jason Pominville has only three in his last 13 games, and none in his last five. In the Wild’s shootout loss to Colorado on Saturday, Pominville had no shots on goal for the first time this season.

--- Minnesota is seventh in the Western Conference, and Philadelphia is tenth in the Eastern Conference. The Wild are 12-1-1 this season against teams that are currently ranked outside the top-eight of their respective conference (8-0-0 at home), while the Flyers are 2-8-0 against teams that are currently in the top-eight (1-3-0 on the road).

--- The two captains, Flyers center Claude Giroux and Wild center Mikko Koivu, upped their games in November after struggling through the first month of the season. Giroux had 4 goals (2 game-winning) and 8 assists–12 points, while Koivu had 5 goals (2 game-winning) and 9 assists–14 points.

--- Since the beginning of the 2011-12 season, Claude Giroux (159) has the third-most points in the NHL (Evgeni Malkin and Steven Stamkos – both 177) and the third-most assists in the league (114, behind only Henrik Sedin – 121, and Joe Thornton – 117).

--- Since the beginning of the 2005-06 season, Wild winger Zach Parise has scored at least one goal in 16 games vs. the Flyers (18 total in 40 games). During that span, only Sidney Crosby (21 games), Evgeni Malkin and Alex Ovechkin (19 apiece), and Patrik Elias and Ilya Kovalchuk (16) have as many.

---Flyers goaltender Steve Mason (26 regular-season games) and Wild goaltender Josh Harding (24) have the NHL’s two longest active streaks of holding their opponents to three or fewer goals. Among all NHL netminders, only Mason, Harding, Peter Budaj (17) and Ben Scrivens (15) have active streaks over 15.

--- Dating back to April 3, 2013, the Flyers have zero points in their last 12 games in which they trailed at the second intermission. This season, only two NHL teams can match the Flyers’ (0-9-0) inability to come back in the third period to salvage a point: Buffalo (0-17-0) and Nashville (0-11-0).

--- The Flyers are the most-penalized team in the NHL, in terms of number of penalties (151), penalty minutes (438) and penalty minutes/game (16.8). The Wild are middle of the pack in all three categories, but experienced a franchise-first in their most recent game, at Colorado (Nov. 30): a penalty-free game.

--- The Wild have gone the longest of any NHL team since their last hat trick (Jan. 16, 2010 – Guillaume Latendresse). Since then, nine different Flyers players – past or present – have scored at least three goals in a game. Only Anaheim has as many unique hat tricks during that span. (Elias Sports Bureau)

--- In head-to-head matchups this season, Western Conference teams are a combined 100-43-18 vs. Eastern Conference teams. (Minnesota is 8-3-2 vs. the East; Philadelphia is 3-3-1 vs. the West.)

--- Since the Wild joined the NHL as an expansion team in 2000-01, they are 4-8-1 (.346) against the Flyers, their second-worst head-to-head record vs. any team (Toronto, 4-8-0, .333). In those 13 games, they have scored one goal or fewer in eight of them, and two goals or fewer in 11. In their last two meetings, the Flyers have outscored the Wild by a combined 11-2 margin.