In St Paul, the visiting Dallas Stars scored five power play goals and two shorthanded markers in an 8-3 win over the Wild on Sunday.
Jake Oettinger made 23 saves in the win.
Dallas moved to 10-3-1.
It started early for Dallas when Joe Pavelski scored 57 seconds into the game for a 1-0 lead on the first power play.
Radek Faksa pushed the advantage to it 2-0 midway through the first off a shorthanded strike.
Just 49 seconds later, the Wild got one back with a marker from Brandon Duhaime, and a 2-1 score.
Matt Duchene hit a standard, even strength goal with 14 seconds elapsed for a 3-1 advantage to Dallas.
Vinni Lettieri scored with 48 seconds left in the frame for a 3-2 count in favor of Dallas.
In the middle frame, Wyatt Johnston hit off the power play at 2:34 of for a 4-2 lead to the Stars.
Evgenii Dadonov posted his own power-play goal at 12:11 to balloon the lead to 5-2.
The Wild got one back with a Mats Zuccarello power play goal to trim the deficit to 5-3 at 15:59 of the second.
The Wild dropped to 5-8-2.
Robertson picked up his first of a double in the game, off the power play with 62 seconds gone in the third for a 6-3 advantage to Dallas.
Robertson potted his double at 3:09 with one more another power play goal for a 7-3 lead.
Johnston scored off a breakaway on a shorthanded situation for the 8-3 final at 17:57.
Marc-Andre Fleury made 29 saves in the loss.


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