Augsburg’s Nico Sturm scored in his Minnesota Wild’s 3-2 win at the Boston Bruins. With that, he has further increased his record.
The out Augsburg native ice hockey professional Nico Sturm scored his sixth goal of the season in the North American in the 3-2 win of the Minnesota Wild at the Boston Bruins NHL achieved. The 26-year-old German scored on Thursday evening (local time) in the first third outnumbered to make it 2-1 for Wild when he deflected a shot from Jonas Brodin.
For Sturm it was the sixth goal of the season (five assists) and the overall 17th goal in his NHL career (13 assists in total). He is currently the most successful German NHL attacker behind top star Leon Daisaitl.
NHL professional Nico Sturm kept fit with the Augsburg Panthers in the summer of 2019.
Photo: Ulrich Wagner
Nico Sturm always spends the summer in Augsburg
Sturm, who still has good connections to Augsburg, spends large parts of the summer in his hometown. The attacker, whose parents live in the Bergheim district, prepared for the NHL season with the professionals of the Augsburg Panthers. He and his team are currently fourth in Central Davision.
In the middle third, Minnesota had to cope with the failure of top scorer Kirill Kaprisow, preseason rookie of the year, who was injured following a hard check from Boston’s Trent Frederic. Goalkeeper Kaapo Kahkonen saved the victory of Wild, who had previously suffered five defeats in a row, with 36 saves.
The game of the Detroit Red Wings, team of the Germans Moritz Seider and Thomas Greiss, at the Anaheim Ducks, which was also scheduled for Thursday, was postponed to Sunday at short notice. It was the 99th game in this NHL season that might not be played as planned. The Ducks are currently affected by a corona outbreak.
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