{"id":388591,"date":"2026-01-03T08:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T08:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/388591\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T08:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T08:18:10","slug":"hughes-has-4-assists-wild-defeat-ducks-to-push-point-streak-to-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/388591\/","title":{"rendered":"Hughes has 4 assists, Wild defeat Ducks to push point streak to 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gustavsson made his best stop of the opening period when he turned away <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/chris-kreider-8475184\" title=\"Chris Kreider\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Kreider<\/a> at the end of a 3-on-1 rush at 10:37.<\/p>\n<p>Kreider has not scored in the past 15 games after scoring 13 goals in the first 22.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a pretty fun first period to watch,&#8221; Gustavsson said. &#8220;We went back and forth with them, switching up some chances.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dostal made nine saves to help kill two minor penalties on Sennecke in the first five minutes of second period, but Yurov scored at 8:10 to make it 2-0. Hughes took a slap shot from the left point that went off the stick blade of Trenin, off the right skate of Yurov and into the net.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I try to do good things on the ice and just working in the gym,&#8221; Yurov said. &#8220;Try and get better every day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sennecke cut it to 2-1 at 13:46 when the puck came to him off a face-off in the Minnesota zone and he scored with a spinning wrist shot from above the left hash marks for his NHL rookie-leading 13th goal of the season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re playing catch-up hockey a lot too, which is not conducive to solidifying where we need to get to,&#8221; Ducks coach Joel Quenneville said. &#8220;We&#8217;ll find it but tonight was a little disappointing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota reestablished the two-goal lead 59 seconds later.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes fed Trenin for a one-timer from the right circle and the puck hit Dostal in the midsection before sliding through his pads for a 3-1 lead at 14:45.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Got my parents in the stands,&#8221; Trenin said. &#8220;My first goal in front of my mom, so it&#8217;s special.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gustavsson made his best stop of the opening period when he turned away Chris Kreider at the end&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-388591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}