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Kaprizov scores and Fleury wows but Wild lose OT thriller to Sabres

There were five lead changes in the game. That's a lot for a hockey game.

Joe Nelson

Kaprizov scores and Fleury wows but Wild lose OT thriller to Sabres
Kaprizov scores and Fleury wows but Wild lose OT thriller to Sabres /

It was a game of huge swings Saturday night in Buffalo and it was the home team that beat the Minnesota Wild 6-5 in a thrilling overtime that featured incredible saves by both goaltenders and the game-winning goal by Victor Olofsson with 19 seconds left on the clock. 

Moments before the winning goal, Wild goalie Marc-Andre Fleury was superhuman with a trio of incredible saves, including this sprawling save when the Sabres raced at him in a two-on-one situation. 

Olofsson's 14th goal of the season had the Sabres up 1-0 after one period. Minnesota responded with two goals less than four minutes apart from Brandon Duhaime and Kirill Kaprizov (his 23rd of the season) to take a 2-1 lead early in the second period. 

Buffalo then turned on the jets and netted three goals in a span of 3 minutes, 25 seconds to go up 4-2 before Ryan Hartman cut the lead to 4-3 with 1:35 left in the middle period. 

Then just 26 seconds in the third period Marcus Foligno scored the tying goal. And Joel Eriksson Ek scored to put the Wild up 5-4 with 12:12 left in regulation. Minnesota held that lead until Rasmus Dahlin's second goal of the night went through the legs of Marc-Andre Fleury to make it 5-5 with 2:24 to go. 

Minnesota is now 22-13-3 with 47 points, just four points behind second place Winnipeg and five points behind first place Dallas in the Central Division.

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Joe Nelson
JOE NELSON

Title: Bring Me The Sports co-owner, editor Email: joe@bringmethenews.com Twitter: @JoeBMTN Education: Southwest Minnesota State University Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota Expertise: All things Minnesota sports Nelson has covered Minnesota sports for two decades, starting his media career in sports radio. He worked at small market Minnesota stations in Marshall and St. Cloud before joining one of the nation's highest-rated sports stations, KFAN-FM 100.3 in the Twin Cities. There, he was the producer of the top-rated mid-morning sports show with Minnesota Vikings announcer Paul Allen.  His radio experience helped blossom a career as a sports writer, joining Minneapolis-based Bring Me The News in 2011.  Nelson and Adam Uren became co-owners of Bring Me The News in 2018 and have since more than tripled the site's traffic and launched Bring Me The Sports in cooperation with the Sports Illustrated/FanNation umbrella. Nelson has covered the Super Bowl and numerous training camps, NFL combines, the MLB All-Star Game and Minnesota playoff games, in addition to the day-to-day happenings on and off the field of play.  Nelson also has extensive knowledge of non-sports subjects, including news and weather. He works closely with Bring Me The News meteorologist Sven Sundgaard to produce a bevy of weather and climate information for Minnesota readers.  Nelson helped launch and manage the Bring Me The News Radio Network, which provided more than 50 radio stations around Minnesota with daily news, sports and weather reports from 2011-17. 

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