In St Paul, the Wild and the visiting Calgary Flames skated to a double shutout on Tuesday night.
Jacob Markstrom made 40 saves for the Flames to get a 1-0 win.
“I thought our guys did a great job of making sure that I saw most of the pucks,” Markstrom said. “A lot of sharp blocks. … It’s the second game of a back to back, and we need to string games together. Nice to get one of these.”
Calgary moved to 29-23-13.
“You know what, we’re fighting for points,” Calgary coach Darryl Sutter said. “We know that. There were one or two rough games at home and everybody threw us under the bus, so good on them.”
The Wild dropped to 36-21-7.
“We played really well,” Minnesota coach Dean Evason said. ” … We had our opportunities. There’s no question their goalie played good. They play sound defensively, but we still had lots of good looks. We did a lot of really good things in this hockey game.”
Tyler Toffoli was credited with the deciding goal on penalties.
“‘Marky’ was outstanding all night, kept us in it and gave us a chance in the shootout,” Toffoli said. “”Honestly, I’m so happy for him. He’s an incredible guy, a great teammate. Obviously the start of the year wasn’t his greatest. Obviously a lot of people were all over him for it, but I think he’s really stepped up, especially these last two games. Even before this he was keeping us in games we weren’t winning. I’m just really happy for him and glad we could get him a win.”
Filip Gustavsson made 26 saves in pitching his second straight shutout for the Wild.
“Today we gave up a few odd-man rushes in the first period then we started to clean it up,” Gustavsson said. “That’s the way we’ve been playing the past couple of weeks and months. Not giving up too many 2-on-1s and odd-man rushes and that stuff. I think that and stick on puck and blocks.”
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