Mats Zuccarello is finally kicking it into for the Minnesota Wild; on Tuesday night he had a goal and two points in a 4-2 over the Ducks in Anaheim.
“We’ve been playing really good hockey the last five or six games,” Zuccarello said. “We’ve just been right there, but we haven’t gotten the points.”
Alex Stalock made 29 saves to help the Wild end a five-game losing skid.
“We kind of got ticked off a little bit and kind of took over the period from there and essentially the game,” Stalock said. “We got a big [penalty] kill at the end of the period and kind of kept the momentum going.”
Rickard Rakell and Jacob Larsson scored 25 seconds apart in the early stages of the middle frame to stake the Ducks to a 2-0 lead.
“It’s a good feeling,” Larsson said. “But, obviously, it would have been nice if we had a win.”
Kevin Fiala, Eric Staal and Zach Parise scored for the Wild as well.
“They’re self-inflicted wounds,” Ducks head coach Dallas Eakins said. “You can play as well as you want, but if you’re going to self-inflict, it’s not going to go your way.”
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John Gibson made 22 saves in the loss.
“It’s a tale of two stories,” Eakins said. “We did so many great things in that first period. Like, our shift length was incredible. That gave us great energy. We were out-changing them and everything was in our favor.”
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