The forward extended his point streak to six games (12 points; seven goals, five assists).<\/p>\n
Danila Yurov scored, and Jesper Wallstedt made 13 saves as the Wild (6-2-1) remained undefeated at home in four games. Minnesota won for the fourth time in five games.<\/p>\n
Adam Fantilli scored for the Blue Jackets (3-4-0), and Cam Talbot made 32 saves. The Blue Jackets lost for the third time in four games.<\/p>\n
Yurov gave the Wild a 1-0 lead at 18:12 of the first period. Yakov Trenin sent over a pass, and Yurov finished the play with a wrist shot off an odd-man rush.<\/p>\n
A minute later, at 19:12, the Blue Jackets tied the game 1-1 when Fantilli scored. His shot from the top of the right circle came on a delayed Wild penalty.<\/p>\n
Kaprizov gave the Wild a 2-1 lead with a power-play goal at 3:06 of the second period, going short side over Talbot\u2019s shoulder with a sharp-angled shot from low in the left circle. He became the sixth active player to reach 10 goals in nine games or fewer in a season, following Auston Matthews (six games in 2018-19), Alex Ovechkin (eight games in 2017-18), David Pastrnak (nine games in 2018-19 and 2019-20),\u00a0Nikita Kucherov (nine games in 2017-18) and Sidney Crosby (nine games in 2016-17).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The forward extended his point streak to six games (12 points; seven goals, five assists). Danila Yurov scored,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":938225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-938224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938224","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=938224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/938225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}