In St Paul, the Minnesota Wild picked up a big win on Thursday night to end a four-game skid in a 3-2 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning.
Alex Stalock made 18 saves to get the victory.
“When we were going good, we had that pushback,” Minnesota head coach Bruce Boudreau said. “I thought we had it today, and my biggest fear was that one inch was going to cost us, like on that offside. I think if we could’ve [scored], they’re a tired team and they might’ve folded the tent.”
Nikita Kucherov struck for both Lightning goals.
“The first ten minutes of the game, we had the puck in our end probably nine minutes of it,” Lightning head coach Jon Cooper said. “All of the sudden, you pick up a couple of penalties, one ends up in your net, and then you’re chasing.”
Zack Parise, Joel Eriksson Ek and Ryan Suter scored for the Wild.
“Today, we played a much better game,” Eriksson Ek said. “We’ve got to keep doing the right things to play games like this.”
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Curtis McElhinney made 20 saves in the loss.
“We had some good looks and we got the big goal,” Tampa Bay’ Victor Hedman said. “The power plays gave us some momentum, but we were passing up some opportunities to shoot.”
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