{"id":390596,"date":"2026-01-04T07:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T07:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/390596\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T07:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T07:27:08","slug":"kings-recover-defeat-wild-in-shootout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/390596\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings recover, defeat Wild in shootout"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matt Boldy<\/a> scored late in the third to tie it and ultimately send the game to overtime, helping the Wild (25-10-8) extend their point streak to six games (3-0-3). Brock Faber<\/a> had a goal and an assist, Jake Middleton<\/a> and Joel Eriksson Ek<\/a> also scored, and Jesper Wallstedt<\/a> made 34 saves.<\/p>\n

It was the second game of a back-to-back for Minnesota, which was coming off a 5-2 win at the Anaheim Ducks on Friday. The Wild and Kings will play again in Los Angeles on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was far from perfect of a game from us,\u201d Faber said. \u201cI thought we could have played better. With that quick turnaround, we\u2019ll take the point. Now we need two in the next.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kempe put the Kings up 1-0 at 6:08 of the first period, scoring on a wrist shot from close range off Anze Kopitar<\/a>\u2019s cross-slot pass from below the goal line.<\/p>\n

Middleton tied it up 1-1 at 8:28, getting his first goal of the season in 36 games on a snap shot from the left circle set up by Mats Zuccarello<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think he thought I was Kirill (Kaprizov) in the slot there, so it was nice to get one,\u201d Middleton joked. \u201cI normally have a few goals before I take 35 games off from scoring, so this one was getting a little stressful but we got it out of the way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perry gave Los Angeles a 2-1 lead at 16:57 of the second period when Byfield\u2019s shot struck him in the wrist and redirected in for the power-play goal.<\/p>\n

Eriksson Ek tied it 2-2 at 18:23 on the power play, taking Quinn Hughes<\/a>\u2019 stretch pass at the offensive blue line for a short breakaway, fending off defenseman Joel Edmundson<\/a> and scoring on a wrist shot from the left circle.<\/p>\n

Byfield put Los Angeles back in front 3-2 at 4:54 of the third period. He shot the puck caroming off the boards back into the crease, where Wallstedt lost it in his skates and it was eventually knocked in by a Wild stick during the ensuing scramble in front.<\/p>\n

\u201cShouldn\u2019t be, that was terrible,\u201d Byfield joked when asked if he knew it was his goal. \u201cNo, it\u2019s good. I think it\u2019s two now that were liked that, so I\u2019ll take them how they come.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matt Boldy scored late in the third to tie it and ultimately send the game to overtime, helping…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-390596","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\/390596","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=390596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}