{"id":884200,"date":"2026-10-16T09:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T09:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/884200\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T09:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T09:48:11","slug":"boldy-scores-hat-trick-wild-hold-off-late-blues-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/884200\/","title":{"rendered":"Boldy scores hat trick, Wild hold off late Blues rally"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert Thomas<\/a> scored short-handed for St. Louis to cut it to 5-3 at 16:00 of the third period, and Dylan Holloway<\/a>\u00a0made it 5-4 with 15 seconds remaining with Joel Hofer<\/a>\u00a0pulled for the extra attacker.<\/p>\n

Kirill Kaprizov<\/a> had a goal and two assists, Danila Yurov<\/a> also scored and Jesper Wallstedt<\/a>\u00a0made 21 saves for the Wild (5-2-1), who won for the third time in four games (3-1-0).<\/p>\n

Quinn Hughes<\/a> had two assists to extend his season-opening streaks for points (two goals, 10 assists) and assists (10 assists) to eight games.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought we played a really strong, collective team game,\u201d Minnesota coach John Hynes said. \u201cWe played organized. We were stingy, highly competitive. Our detail was good.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thomas had a goal and an assist, Mason McTavish<\/a> scored and Cam Fowler<\/a>\u00a0had three assists for the Blues (3-3-1), who had points in three straight (2-0-1). Hofer made 33 saves.<\/p>\n

Despite battling back to make it a one-goal game in the end, St. Louis didn\u2019t contain Minnesota\u2019s top line well enough, especially in the second period, coach Jim Montgomery said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re very dangerous, and they showed us why they\u2019re so dangerous,\u201d Montgomery said. \u201cAnd we made it too easy for them. I did like our fight to come back and just to try and prevail in the game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jonatan Berggren<\/a>\u2019s power-play goal gave the Blues a 1-0 lead 1:45 into the game, finishing top shelf on the backhand.<\/p>\n

Boldy tied it 1-1 at 7:31 with a quick slap shot during a 5-on-3 advantage.<\/p>\n

Yurov put the Wild ahead 2-1 at 11:17, scoring from the high slot off the rush on a pass down low from Maxim Shabanov<\/a>.<\/p>\n

McTavish tied it 2-2 at 4:57 of the second period, but Boldy responded just 27 seconds later with his second goal to put the Wild back in front 3-2, with Joel Eriksson Ek<\/a>\u00a0recording his second assist on the play.<\/p>\n

\u201cTheir top line was really good all night,\u201d Thomas said. \u201cWe were chasing them around. They made a ton of plays. We\u2019ve got to do a better job. We knew how dangerous they were — we let them have an easy night tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kaprizov extended it to 4-2 at 8:47 with his ninth goal of the season. He passed the puck to Hughes, then went to the front of the net for the tip-in goal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe more reps and games we get together, the more we’re just going to be reading off each other,\u201d Hughes said of playing with Kaprizov and Boldy. \u201cAnd I feel like we’re getting to a place now where we’re in a good spot with that. And it’s just so fun, so fun playing with them.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like when we’re out there together, we just tilt the ice.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robert Thomas scored short-handed for St. Louis to cut it to 5-3 at 16:00 of the third period,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":884201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-884200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}