The Wild concluded their exhibition schedule on Friday with a 2-1 loss to the Dallas Stars at Grand Casino Arena.<\/p>\n
Joel Eriksson Ek scored for the Wild, and Jesper Wallstedt made 16 saves before being pulled for an extra attacker with 2 minutes, 36 seconds remaining. Minnesota had several good scoring chances, but Dallas\u2019 Casey DeSmith stopped 26 of 27 shots on goal.<\/p>\n
The Wild had a 6-on-4 advantage in the final minute but it was disrupted when tempers between the Central Division rivals flared.<\/p>\n
Minnesota\u2019s Matt Boldy was tossed for fighting with Thomas Hardy and received a 10-minute game misconduct with 1:16 remaining. Less than 30 seconds later, and Stars veteran Jamie Benn started a fight with Marcus Foligno, and Justin Hryckowian fought Michael McCarren near mid-ice.<\/p>\n
Radek Faksa gave the Stars a 1-0 lead midway through the first period, and Eriksson Ek tied it 1:54 into the second period. Hardy scored the game-winner when his wrist shot ricocheted off the skate of Jared Spurgeon and past Wallstedt with 1:22 left in the second.<\/p>\n
The Wild finished 1-1-2 in exhibition games. They open the regular season on Thursday against the Predators in Nashville. Puck drop is set for 7 p.m.<\/p>\n
The home opener is set for Oct. 3 against Boston at Grand Casino Arena starting at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wild concluded their exhibition schedule on Friday with a 2-1 loss to the Dallas Stars at Grand…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,154421,2960,2484,154],"class_list":["post-448144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-joel-eriksson-ek","tag-minnesota-wild","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}