Wild hit for seven in win over Dallas

In St Paul, the Wild busted out the offense on Thursday night and defeated the Dallas Stars, 7-2.

Kirill Kaprizov hit for a goal and four points in the Wild win.

Cam Talbot made 36 saves in the Minnesota win.

“I just tried to play hockey,” Kaprizov said. “I just tried to play my game and do the best I could every single night, and what happens happens.”

The Wild improved to 11-5-0.

Dallas’ Jacob Peterson and Jamie Benn were the Stars’ strikers in the loss.

Getting beat defensively like we did tonight, that’s not our team at all,” Stars head coach Rick Bowness said. “That’s will. I think the good news is I know that we can compete with that team, and I know we can clean up the issues that we had tonight. But there has to be a desire, there has to be emotion, there has to be a passion and a will to fix those things.”

Dallas dropped to 6-7-2.

Rem Pitlick, Kaprizov, and Ryan Hartman scored to give the Wild a 3-0 lead before the Stars got on the board.

“It’s great to get seven goals but we did it the right way. We played team first,” Wild head coach Dean Evason said. “We weren’t extending our shifts. We weren’t individually trying to score. We were scoring the right way, and that was certainly nice for us to see and obviously nice for the group to get rewarded when they do that.”

Alex Goligoski, Mats Zuccarello, and Victor Rask also scored for Minnesota.

“Any time you get a goal right after they score, especially when they make it a two-goal game there, we get one right back. That was nice,” Goligoski said. “You can breathe easier after that one and just get back to work.”