Panthers’ have not won on the road against this team since 2010

Xcel Energy Center proved once again to be a barn too great for the Florida Panthers.

The Panthers, who have lost four in a row and are 3-5-3 in their past 11 games, extended their winless streak in Minnesota to six games, with a 5-1 loss to the Wild on Thursday. The Panthers have not won in Minnesota since March 9, 2010 (3-2 shootout win) and are 1-9-1-1 all time.

“It doesn’t matter. It’s just like any other building in the league,” Panthers defenseman Aaron Ekblad said. “We got to find a way to win.”

The loss concluded a quick two-game road trip in disappointing fashion, both games in which the Panthers found themselves with an early lead only for it to disappear in the final 40 minutes.

Denis Malgin put the Panthers up 1-0 2:20 into the opening period with a rebound from MacKenzie Weegar’s shot bouncing out perfectly to Malgin’s stick for the one-timer past Wild goalie Devan Dubnyk (30 saves).

Panthers goaltender James Reimer (21 saves) stopped multiple Grade-A chances from an aggressive Wild offense throughout the period to maintain the lead.

The Wild managed to get one back with forward Nino Niederreiter blasting one at 15:22 to end the first period tied 1-1.

Niederreiter opened the scoring up again in the second period at 11:54 and it was all Minnesota after that, the Wild getting goals from forwards Eric Staal and Zach Parise, and defenseman Jonas Brodin.

“In the second period we just let it slip away,” Ekblad said. “We didn’t have the same juice in the second as we did in the first, and obviously didn’t have enough in the third. [Reimer] made some huge saves for us — we have to be a lot better in front of him.”

The Panthers’ lethal power play, which had ranked fourth in the NHL at 27.2 percent, was only given the opportunity twice against the Wild, resulting in the second consecutive game the team has gone 0 for 2 with the man advantage.

Adding to the offensive woes, Florida’s top line of Jonathan Huberdeau (minus-2, one shot), Aleksander Barkov (minus-1, zero shots) and Mike Hoffman (minus-1, three shots) failed to generate any momentum.

“[Minnesota’s] best players were better than our best players,” Panthers coach Bob Boughner said. “I thought [Barkov’s] line looked slow all game, they didn’t have great legs, they looked like they had heavy legs. Sometimes you want them to play through it and you think they’re gonna figure it out and they just never did.

“[It’s a] disappointing loss, especially the last 10, 15 minutes. Even when you’re down, the message is play to the buzzer and play with pride. I thought some guys did and I didn’t think some guys did.”

Boughner admitted the team will take a look at not only heavy line changes but potential call-ups ahead of Saturday’s home matchup against the Toronto Maple Leafs.

“We’ll see,” he said. “It definitely would be time.”

▪ Forward Anthony Greco, who was recalled from Springfield, Massachusetts, on Tuesday, made his NHL debut and finished minus-3 with two shots in 9:30 of ice time.

“Especially early I thought he was skating well,” Boughner said. “Once it got to 4-1 it was tough to make an assessment. He did fine, he held his own for sure.”