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  • Matt Boldy’s fortunate bounce gives Wild 5-4 shootout win over Rangers

    Matt Boldy’s fortunate bounce gives Wild 5-4 shootout win over Rangers

    By BRIAN HALL

    ST. PAUL — Mats Zuccarello and Matt Boldy scored in the shootout and the Minnesota Wild beat the New York Rangers 5-4 after coming back from a three-goal deficit on Saturday night.

    Zuccarello and New York’s Artemi Panarin traded goals to open the shootout before Boldy got a fortunate bounce for the winner. Boldy’s shot went off the pipe and hit Rangers goaltender Jonathan Quick in the back and deflected into the net.

    Zuccarello had a goal and an assist, and Ryan Hartman, Joel Eriksson Ek and Marco Rossi also scored in regulation for the Wild, who snapped a four-game losing streak.

    Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 13 of the 14 shots he faced after replacing Filip Gustavsson in the first period. Gustavsson allowed three goals on four shots over the first 6:53 as Minnesota trailed 3-0.

    Panarin and Erik Gustafsson each had a goal and an assist, and Jimmy Vesey and Chris Krieder scored for New York, which had won six straight. Quick made 36 saves.

    After losing defenseman Adam Fox and forward Filip Chytil to injured reserve and playing without top goalie Igor Shesterkin, the Rangers jumped on the Wild quickly.

    Vesey scored his first goal of the season just 3:36 into the game. Panarin added his sixth of the season at 5:52 and then Gustafsson added his third a minute later, chasing Gustavsson from the game.

    The final two periods of regulation were nearly all Minnesota, which outshot New York 26-12 over that span.

    Hartman opened the scoring for the Wild 5:57 into the second with his seventh goal of the season. He has six goals in his past six games. Eriksson Ek added his sixth of the year 29 seconds later to pull Minnesota within one.

    Less than two minutes into the third, Minnesota defenseman Jonas Brodin kept the puck in the zone along the wall and sent a shot on net that found Zuccarello on the backside for a deflection to tie the score.

    Rossi added his fifth goal four minutes later to put the Wild ahead, but Kreider countered with his seventh of the season to tie the score again at 6:40. Kreider passed Andy Bathgate for fourth on the Rangers’ career goals list with his 273rd.

    UP NEXT

    Rangers: Host Detroit on Tuesday night.

    Wild: Start a three-game road trip Tuesday night against the New York Islanders.

    The Associated Press

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  • Duchene’s goal, assist lead Predators to 2-1 win over Wild

    Duchene’s goal, assist lead Predators to 2-1 win over Wild

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Matt Duchene scored a goal and assisted on another to lead the Nashville Predators to a 2-1 victory over the Minnesota Wild on Tuesday night.

    Nino Niederreiter also scored and Juuse Saros made 32 saves for Nashville. Ryan Johansen had two assists.

    Frederick Gaudreau scored and Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 23 shots for the Wild.

    Niederreiter scored the first goal at 11:20 of the opening period off passes from his two linemates, Johansen and Duchene.

    The assist was Duchene’s 700th career point, but the winger didn’t sit on that milestone very long.

    Duchene followed 44 seconds later with a power-play goal on a one-timer from the high slot off a feed from Johansen.

    Saros stopped all 27 shots he faced through the first two periods, but Gaudreau finally snuck one by him 32 seconds into the third on the first Minnesota shot of the final period.

    Saros wouldn’t allow the equalizer though, preserving the victory by denying Joel Eriksson Ek on a point-blank shot with about 90 seconds left.

    A BETTER START

    In scoring two first-period goals and allowing none, the Predators reversed a trend that’s plagued them through the first 15 games. Entering the day, Nashville had been outscored 20-9 in first periods this season — the worst differential in the NHL.

    POINT STREAKS EXTENDED

    With assists on Gaudreau’s goal, both Mats Zuccarello and Kirill Kaprizov extended their point streaks to four games. During that span, Zuccarello has a goal and three assists while Kaprizov has two goals and three assists.

    WELCOME BACK

    Wild forward Brandon Duhaime returned to the lineup after missing Minnesota’s previous five games with an upper-body injury.

    UP NEXT

    Wild: Host the Pittsburgh Penguins to start a seven-game homestand Thursday.

    Predators: Host the New York Islanders on Thursday.

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