ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Danila Yurov scored twice, Quinn Hughes had four assists and the Minnesota Wild beat the Anaheim Ducks 5-2 on Friday night.<\/p>\n
Kirill Kaprizov, Yakov Trenin and Nico Sturm also scored for the Wild, who earned a point for the fifth straight game (3-0-2). Filip Gustavsson stopped 26 shots.<\/p>\n
Minnesota is 22-4-4 in its last 30 games, and 8-1-2 since acquiring Hughes, the 2024 Norris Trophy winner, in a blockbuster with Vancouver on Dec. 12.<\/p>\n
Beckett Sennecke and Troy Terry scored for Anaheim, which has lost five straight and nine of 11. Lukas Dostal had 29 saves, including 17 in the second period.<\/p>\n
Yurov put the game out of reach when he redirected Hughes’ shot past Dostal for a 4-1 lead 3:21 into the third. Sturm\u2019s shot from the left circle made it 5-1 with 4:58 left.<\/p>\n
Dostal made eight saves during a pair of penalty kills in the first seven minutes of the second, but he caught an unlucky break when the Wild scored on a double-deflection to take a 2-0 lead at the 8:10 mark.<\/p>\n
Hughes, one of eight Minnesota players named to Winter Olympic teams Friday, sent a shot from the blue line that hit Trenin\u2019s stick and Yurov’s right skate before trickling into the net.<\/p>\n
Anaheim grabbed some momentum when Mason McTavish\u2019s faceoff swipe from the left circle landed on the stick of Sennecke, whose snap shot beat Gustavsson stick-side to cut the lead to 2-1. Sennecke leads NHL rookies with 13 goals.<\/p>\n
But Minnesota pushed it to 3-1 with 5:15 left in the second when Trenin took a pass from Hughes in the right circle and rifled a shot past Dostal.<\/p>\n
Minnesota took advantage of Alex Killorn’s tripping penalty, needing only 9 seconds to score on the power play for a 1-0 lead 5:39 into the first. Dostal blocked Hughes’ slap shot from the point, but Kaprizov banged a shot past Dostal after a scramble in front of the net for his 24th goal.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Ducks: At Washington on Monday night.<\/p>\n
Wild: At Los Angeles on Saturday night.<\/p>\n