In St Paul, Bo Horvat struck for two goals as the Vancouver Canucks defeated the Minnesota Wild, 4-1 on Sunday.
“I think we gained a lot of confidence in our last win in Buffalo and just kind of carried it into tonight,” Horvat said. “I thought we played really well, limited their opportunities, maybe slipped away a little bit in the third there, but overall I thought we played a really solid game.”
Jacob Markstrom made 23 saves in the win.
Marcus Foligno scored the lone goal for the Wild.
“It stings. It’s a game where if we played the right way and we’re a little bit smarter, we’d probably come out on top,” Foligno said. “A lot of losses this year have just been beating ourselves up.
“These efforts, these games, they stink. That’s all it is. We didn’t get beat. We beat ourselves in a lot of categories. It seems like a lot of losses like that have happened this year where we beat ourselves. It’s something where we have to go back tomorrow and play a team.”
Elias Pettersson and Troy Stecher added single markers for the Canucks.
“I like to say [confidence is] high but we’re pretty even-keeled,” Stecher said. “Guys aren’t getting too high right now or getting too low. We just look at our division and look how tight it is, there’s really no time to celebrate. We just got to get ready for the next game.”
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Devan Dubnyk made 26 saves in the loss.
“We’re not a team that’s going to go tic tac toe, tic tac toe, and score goals,” Wild head coach Bruce Boudreau said. “We’re a team when we’re going well, we get shots on net, we go to the net, like [Foligno’s] goal. That’s how we score. We grind it out. But we don’t have enough guys grinding right now.”
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