The three-game sweep starts in Calgary where goals from Jiri Hudler and Lance Bouma erased a 2-0 lead the Minnesota Wild had built and the Flames forced extra time.
But Mikko Koivu scored in overtime to send the Wild to their 3-2 win. The win restarts the point machine for the Wild who had tied a franchise marks 10 straight games in 
which the secured a point, 8-0-2; that streak ended Monday in Vancouver.
“Even that one extra point, it’s huge, especially against a team that we’re chasing (for the Stanley Cup Playoffs),” Koivu said. “Every point is very important and you need it all. We want to take as many as we can and move forward.”
Devan Dubnyk made 35 saves for the win to keep the Wild relevant in the west.
“It’s nice to get a point there but, at the same time, we’re not happy about it,” Bouma said. “Our effort wasn’t the best to start the game off. It’s hard when you fall behind early and you rely on that comeback. We can’t do that. We have to make sure that we play the whole way and play the same way for the entire game.”
Justin Fontaine and Matt Dumba scored for the Wild in regulation.
In Edmonton, the Oilers watched as the Boston Bruins erased a two-goal lead in the second period and the two clubs battled through an entertaining third period before ending regulation tied 3-3.
Through overtime there was no additional scoring and it appeared no one would ever score again in this game as the two teams went to a 12-round goal-less skills competition before Martin Marincin scored on Tuukka Rask for the 4-3 win.
“That felt great. That was my first NHL goal and it came on my birthday,” Marincin said. “I just tried to make a move and the ice was bad, so I guess I had some good luck.”
It was his first shootout attempt as well.
“Sometimes those work,” Oilers right wing Jordan Eberle said. “If you don’t even know what you are doing, there is no way [the goalie] does. It ended up working.”
Nail Yakupov, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Teddy Purcell scored for Edmonton.
“It was a good game. We got off to a good start, which I liked,” Oilers coach Todd Nelson said. “Ben Scrivens was outstanding. It was a fun game to coach. He looked sharp and made some big saves in the first period. I thought he played an outstanding game for his first game back.”
Boston got goals from Loui Eriksson, Reilly Smith and David Pastrnak.
“It was a frustrating night for a lot of reasons,” Bruins coach Claude Julien said. “Our penalty kill that had been so good, made some mental mistakes and gave them some great opportunities. If you give them some opportunities you know they’ll score goals. We adjusted after that, we were better on the penalty kill. We got ourselves back in the game, but at the end of this all, it’s our inability to finish.”
In Ottawa, rookie goalie Andrew Hammond made 42 saves and backstopped the Senators to a 4-2 win over the Montreal Canadiens.
“I was able to get comfortable early. Every shot that came my way I felt I settled in even more,” Hammond said. “Throughout the game I started just feeling in the zone, I guess.
“I think maybe the first save that kind of got me into the game was the Pacioretty breakaway in the first. That was really the first one that was kind of a reminder that you can do it, I guess. Obviously one of the best players in the League coming down on you and you stop him. That was the cool part of it.”
Max Pacioretty and Nathan Beaulieu had goals for the Habs.
“I think we made it a little bit too easy on their goalie. We have to get some screens and some second and third chances,” Pacioretty said. “It’s the same story too often. We have to find ways to put the puck in the net especially when we have [Tokarski] back there. We’ve left him out to dry too many times this year.
“It’s frustrating because he’s a great goaltender and he does all the right things. We give up too many chances and we haven’t been able to score with him in there. That’s on the players in this room and nobody else.”
Mark Stone, Milan Michalek, Jean-Gabriel Pageau, and Kyle Turris scored for the Senators.
“[Hammond] deserved a lot of credit. We threw a lot of pucks to the net and he made some key saves, but that’s [not] the type of hockey we want to play, especially at this time of the year,” Canadiens coach Michel Therrien said. “I thought we gave up too many scoring chances and quality ones.
“It could be a times we didn’t manage the puck well, our coverage was not good enough and we left Tokarski by himself a few times. If you expect to win games in the National Hockey League, you can’t do that.”
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