In St Paul, the Minnesota Wild used three power play goals to rout the Pittsburgh Penguins Friday, 6-2.
Devan Dubnyk made 34 saves to back up the Wild offense.
Goalie Devan Dubnyk (#40) file photo by Lewis Bleiman
Charlie Coyle had two goals and Jonas Brodin, Zach Parise, Nino Niederreiter, and Mikael Granlund all scored for Minnesota.
“Going into the period, a couple goals ahead is a totally different story,” Coyle said. “You know that team doesn’t give up. We keep going the right way like we did, and like I said, doing the little things out there. Winning battles, board play, just getting pucks in the net and guys [creating] traffic, and sometimes we get a few like that.”
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Phil Kessel and Bryan Rust scored for the Penguins.
“Early on we made some big mistakes,” Penguins captain Sidney Crosby said. “You give up big scoring chances like that, it’s tough to win games.”
Marc-Andre Fleury made 30 saves in the loss and was under siege most of the night.
“I thought we put him in a tough spot. The goals they got, they’re Grade A scoring chances. The types of saves he had to make were high-quality. So I thought we put him in a tough spot in a lot of the circumstances,” Penguins head coach Mike Sullivan said.
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