Jared Spurgeon, Frederick Gaudreau and Joel Eriksson Ek scored to present the visiting Minnesota Wild a three-goal edge, and so they held on to beat the Chicago Blackhawks 4-2 on Sunday.
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Marcus Foligno scored as soon as in a two-point recreation and goaltender Filip Gustavsson made 18 saves for the Wild, who snapped a two-game dropping streak and had received one among their final six. Matt Boldy collected three assists.
Minnesota has a 15-0-1 document in opposition to the Blackhawks relationship again to Feb. 4, 2020.
Seth Jones and Frank Nazar replied for the Blackhawks, who sit on the backside of the Central Division and have just one victory of their final eight video games . Goalie Petr Mrazek stopped 24 photographs.
With their want for a powerful begin to snap their skid, the Wild obtained it when Spurgeon opened the scoring at 5:43. The defenseman joined an odd-man rush, obtained the puck on the blue line and lifted a top-corner shot from the slot.
Gaudreau made it 2-0 earlier than the Blackhawks even registered a shot on web when he fluttered a short-side, sharp-angled shot that Mrazek misplayed at 7:17 of the primary interval.
Eriksson Ek prolonged Minnesota’s result in 3-0 at 10:45 of the second interval when he redirected Kirill Kaprizov’s shot-pass simply contained in the submit.
Chicago was held to at least one shot within the opening body and 5 by means of 40 minutes, however made a recreation of it with an impressed third interval.
Jones, who was hit within the face by a puck within the center body, put the hosts on the board because of a power-play objective, a top-corner shot from the excessive slot, 56 seconds into the third interval.
Nazar then pulled his crew inside one objective when he pounced on a sharp-angled rebound try at 4:16 of the interval.
With an help on the objective, Ethan Del Mastro a 2021 fourth-round draft choose collected his first NHL level in his fourth big-league recreation.
Chicago got here near drawing even, however Gustavsson delivered an enormous leg save on Patrick Maroon. Foligno’s empty-net objective with 1:42 remaining sealed the sport.
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