For a guy who had just scored his sixth goal in the NHL, and first with the Minnesota Wild, Maxim Shabanov looked like a guy who had practiced his “celly” a time or two. Shabanov, who turns 26 on Thursday, was playing just his third game for Minnesota and has yet to crack the 50 NHL games in his second North American season. He had already seen what should have been his first Wild goal taken ...

It looks like the Minnesota Wild will open their season with an interesting all-Russian top line of Kirill Kaprizov, Danila Yurov and Maxim Shabanov.