With under seven minutes left in regulation, the Anaheim Ducks seemingly had a tough win secured in St Paul Saturday. But the Minnesota Wild scored three goals in less than two minutes to wrest a 5-3 win from the Ducks.
The three quick goals from Erik Haula, Ryan Suter and Jason Zucker
“I think we just kept pulling; it’s hard to say when, but we could feel it at the end of the second there that we were turning around a little bit,” Haula said. “That’s a good team over there and they played hard and we’re happy the way we came back.”
The Wild are 19-2-1 in their last 22 games and lead the Western Conference with 65 points.
“I don’t know. … I think a lot of guys are confident that they can do it over and over again,” Wild coach Bruce Boudreau said. “Certainly we wouldn’t like to do it all the time. You like to be able to think that you can do it when you have to.”
Devan Dubnyk made 26 saves to pick up the win for the Wild.
Stefan Noesen, Cam Fowler and Corey Perry scored for the Ducks who just let up on the gas the game was winding down.
“It’s unfortunate,” Fowler said. “We come in, we put ourselves in a really good position to win a hockey game against a great team that plays well at home. To kind of, I don’t want to say that we threw it away, but we certainly didn’t make things easy on ourselves with some of the mistakes in the third period.”
John Gibson started the game but left in the first period with an injury and was relieved by Jonathan Bernier who took the loss.
“They’re a good team. They’re very deep, their whole lineup, when you have a guy like Parise on the third line, [it] means a lot. I think we were a little tired in the third, we were missing a few guys and it showed,” Bernier said.
Haula and Zucker each had a goal earlier in the game for the Wild.
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