In St Paul, Frederick Gaudreau was the only scorer on penalties on Tuesday night, his skills goal gave the Wild a 2-1 win over the visiting New York Islanders.
Filip Gustavsson made 39 saves to get the win for the Wild.
Minnesota improved to 34-21-6.
The Islanders took a 1-0 lead in the fist period off a rebound at 14:15.
The Wild responded with two minutes left in the first on a goal from Ryan Reaves, his fist of the Season.
Reaves batted the puck in from just under the crossbar to tie the game, 1-1.
The game was relatively incident free only one minor penalty whistled in the game, that went to the Wild.
New York dropped to 31-25-6.
Ilya Sorokin made 30 saves in the loss.
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