In St Paul, the Minnesota Wild won their fourth straight, 5-2, over the Arizona Coyote on Tuesday night.
Kaapo Kahkonen made 29 saves in the Wild win.
Minnesota improved to 15-6-1.
“I think the depth is the best,” Wild head coach Dean Evason said. “We’re not teaching, we’re not coaching any differently. I just think that we’ve got some depth scoring that everybody’s producing. They’re all for the most part playing the right way and the same way, and if we do that, we feel that we’ll be able to score goals.
“It’s not one line, it’s not two guys, it’s not one defenseman. Everybody’s involved in the offense. That’s what we like, and it’s more fun to play that way.”
Clayton Keller and Anton Stralman were the Arizona strikers.
“I think for a big part of the game we played good,” Coyotes head coach Andre Tourigny said. “I think their trademark on the other side is their play around the net. They are really good at putting traffic in front of the net, really good at finding pucks. We knew that was a way to beat us.
“At the same time, we really did a lot. There’s a lot of positives in that game.”
The Coyotes dropped to 5-16-2.
After falling behind, 0-1, the Wild tied it on a goal from Joel Eriksson Ek.
Kirill Kaprizov put the Wild up 2-1 in the second period, and Jordan Greenway pushed the lead to 3-1.
“I think we’ve been playing well,” Greenway said. “… We’ve been playing well enough to be at the top of leaderboard (in the Central Division), so yeah, I think that’s where we should be and that’s where we should stay for a while.”
The Wild’s Jonas Brodin scored with four seconds left in the middle frame for a 4-1 lead.
Stralman cut it to 4-2, but Marcus Foligno scored for the 5-2 final.
“It was a tough period to let those two goals in, especially the last one off the face-off there with [four] seconds left,” Stralman said. “That’s another structure thing that we have to clean up and another detail that we let ourselves down on.”
Scott Wedgewood made 32 saves in the Arizona loss.
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