{"id":455524,"date":"2026-02-03T10:38:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T10:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/455524\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T10:38:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T10:38:17","slug":"kaprizov-scores-ot-winner-on-power-play-as-wild-clip-canadiens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/455524\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaprizov scores OT winner on power play as Wild clip Canadiens"},"content":{"rendered":"

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) \u2014 Kirill Kaprizov<\/a> scored his second goal of the game on a power play at 3:38 of overtime to give the Minnesota Wild<\/a> a 4-3 victory over the Montreal Canadiens<\/a> on Monday night.<\/p>\n

Minnesota got the power play when Phillip Danault<\/a> hooked Kaprizov in front of the goal. Kaprizov took a feed from Quinn Hughes<\/a> and fired a shot past Jakub Dobes<\/a> from the high slot for his 32nd goal of the season.<\/p>\n

Joel Eriksson Ek<\/a> and Brock Faber<\/a> also scored, and Hughes had three assists to reach 50 for the season. Filip Gustavsson<\/a> made 17 saves.<\/p>\n

Faber tied it 3-3 at 7:05 of the third, racing onto the puck down the right side for a quick shot. Quinn assisted on the goal.<\/p>\n

Hughes assisted on Kaprizov\u2019s first goal to tie the Russian\u2019s team-record assists streak at nine and push his franchise-record points streak for defenceman to nine. Kaprizov had assists in nine straight games in 2022-23.<\/p>\n

Minnesota won its fourth straight, ending Montreal winning streak at three.<\/p>\n

Brendan Gallagher<\/a>, Ivan Demidov<\/a> and Kirby Dach<\/a> scored to give Montreal the lead after the Wild raced to a 2-0 advantage.<\/p>\n

Dach put Montreal ahead 12 seconds into the third, knocking in Nick Suzuki<\/a>\u2019s feed. Gallagher started the comeback with 52 seconds left in the first, and Demidov tied it with 17 seconds to go in the second.<\/p>\n

Eriksson Ek opened the scoring 38 seconds into the first period, firing a wrist shot from the right circle. Kaprizov made it 2-0 with 4:12 left in the first, tipping in Quinn\u2019s feed.<\/p>\n

Wild defenceman Daemon Hunt<\/a> didn\u2019t return after taking a puck to the throat in the first period.<\/p>\n

UP NEXT<\/p>\n

Canadiens: Visit the Winnipeg Jets<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Wild: Visit the Nashville Predators<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NHL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/p>\n

The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) \u2014 Kirill Kaprizov scored his second goal of the game on a power play…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-455524","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\/455524","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=455524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}