Boldy added an assist for three points, Kirill Kaprizov had a goal and an assist, and Mats Zuccarello had two assists for the Wild (42-22-11), who have alternated wins and losses for eight straight games. Filip Gustavsson made 29 saves for his 100th win with Minnesota.<\/p>\n
Wild defenseman Quinn Hughes was plus-4 with one assist in his first game against his former team. The Canucks traded their captain and all time highest scoring defenseman to Minnesota on Dec. 12 after seven-plus seasons for defenseman Zeev Buium, forwards Marco Rossi and Liam Ohgren, and a first-round pick in the 2026 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n
Tom Willander and Jake DeBrusk scored 42 seconds apart, and Nikita Tolopilo made 32 saves for the last-place Canucks (22-45-8), who were coming off an 8-6 win at the Colorado Avalanche on Wednesday that ended a six-game losing streak. Vancouver hasn\u2019t won consecutive games since winning four in a row through Dec. 20.<\/p>\n
Minnesota went up 1-0 at 8:32 of the first period after Joel Eriksson Ek knocked a clearing attempt out of the air inside the blue line, setting up a 2-on-1 that Boldy finished by keeping the puck and snapping it between Tolopilo\u2019s pads from inside the bottom of the left circle. It was Boldy\u2019s first goal in eight games.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Willander tied it 1-1 with the teams playing 4-on-4 at 16:00 after Teddy Blueger\u2019s shot from above the left circle bounced hard off the end boards and came out to Willander on the other side before Gustavsson could get across.\u00a0<\/p>\n
DeBrusk made it 2-1 on the power play at 16:42, batting the puck out of the air behind Gustavsson after Filip Hronek hit the cross bar on a one-timer from the point.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Boldy reached 40 goals for the first time in the NHL on a breakaway 23 seconds into the second period to tie it 2-2, sending a wrist shot past the glove of Tolopilo after Buium whiffed on a cross-ice pass at the far blue line.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kaprizov put the Wild ahead 3-2 with his 40th of the season at 6:08 after intercepting a pass from defenseman Elias Pettersson along the boards in the Canucks end. Kaprizov passed immediately across the ice to Zuccarello atop the left circle and then one-timed the quick return feed past a sprawling Tolopilo from below the right face-off dot.<\/p>\n
Hartman made it 4-2 at 6:03 of the third period by deflecting a Zuccarello point shot past Tolopilo from the edge of the crease, and scored his second into an empty net at 18:52 for the 5-2 final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boldy added an assist for three points, Kirill Kaprizov had a goal and an assist, and Mats Zuccarello…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-578871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}