{"id":607760,"date":"2026-04-15T04:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T04:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/607760\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T04:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T04:54:07","slug":"haight-gets-1st-nhl-goal-wild-hold-off-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/607760\/","title":{"rendered":"Haight gets 1st NHL goal, Wild hold off Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wild tied it 1-1 at 16:42 after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/vladimir-tarasenko-8475765\" title=\"Vladimir Tarasenko\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vladimir Tarasenko<\/a>\u00a0won a battle for the puck in the corner of the Anaheim zone and passed it to Yurov in the right circle. Yurov had time to gather the puck before shooting it off the body of Dostal and across the goal line.<\/p>\n<p>Dostal stopped a breakaway by Yurov at 9:47 of the second period before Haight made it 2-1 at 11:24.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/nick-foligno-8473422\" title=\"Nick Foligno\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Foligno<\/a> passed the puck from below the goal line to Haight above the left hash marks and he dragged the puck through the slot before scoring with a wrist shot from the right hash marks for his first NHL goal in his ninth game.<\/p>\n<p>Haight had a goal disallowed in the loss to St. Louis on Monday because of goaltender interference.<\/p>\n<p>Haight credited veteran linemates Foligno and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/marcus-johansson-8475149\" title=\"Marcus Johansson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marcus Johansson<\/a>\u00a0for providing some teachable moments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s awesome,&#8221; Haight said. &#8220;The opportunity to play with those two guys, you learn so much. Just the little details. Come back from a shift and they\u2019re giving you insight on what they see and all that. So, it\u2019s really cool.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fabbri was credited with a goal after a video review showed the puck had crossed the goal line after he gave it a nudge in the crease to extend the lead to 3-1 at 13:03 of the third period.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A few unlucky bounces,&#8221; Poehling said. &#8220;The third one is just bouncing around like crazy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McTavish scored on a redirection with Dostal pulled for the extra skater to cut it to 3-2 with 46 seconds left.<\/p>\n<p>The Ducks outshot the Wild 15-3 in the third period.<\/p>\n<p>NOTES: Minnesota has won eight straight against Anaheim and 21 of 22. &#8230; Wallstedt finished the season 18-9-6 with a 2.61 goals-against average and .916 save percentage and four shutouts. His wins and shutouts are a team record for a rookie goaltender, his save percentage is tied for first and his GAA ranks second. &#8230; The Wild avoided getting shut out in an 82-game season for the first time in franchise history. &#8230; Ducks forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/chris-kreider-8475184\" title=\"Chris Kreider\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Kreider<\/a>\u00a0did not play because of an illness. &#8230; Anaheim is three goals away from tying the franchise record for the most goals in a single season (263 in 2013-14). &#8230; McTavish has six points (three goals, three assists) in the past six games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wild tied it 1-1 at 16:42 after Vladimir Tarasenko\u00a0won a battle for the puck in the corner&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-607760","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\/607760","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=607760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}