Wild blow giant lead, beat Stars in shootout
Joel Eriksson's goal 29 seconds into the third period gave the Minnesota Wild a 5-1 lead Sunday in Dallas, but the Stars roared back to the tie the game only to fall to the Wild 6-5 in a shootout – Minnesota's second shootout win in as many days.
Here's how the shootout went, with the Wild winning by going 3-for-3.
- Dallas: Jason Robertson – goal
- Mats Zuccarello – goal
- Dallas: Joel Pavelski – goal
- Minnesota: Kirill Kaprizov – goal
- Dallas: Roope Hintz – missed the net
- Minnesota: Freddy Gaudreau – goal
Kirill Kaprizov gave Minnesota a 1-0 lead with a power-play goal late in the first period. That extends his points streak to 12 games and is the sixth consecutive game he's scored a goal.
No stopping Kirill Kaprizov 🤴#mnwild pic.twitter.com/S1Gs7ILKvG
— Minnesota Wild (@mnwild) December 4, 2022
Roope Hintz tied the game 1-1 in the second before Minnesota scored three times in a span of 2 minutes, 50 seconds to take a 4-1 lead into the third. Those three goals came from Connor Dewar, Jake Middleton and Jordan Greenway. Dewar's goal was shorthanded on one of the four successful Wild penalty kills.
5th shorthanded goal of the season goes to DEWEY2 🤑#mnwild pic.twitter.com/iIB0VI9ckU
— Minnesota Wild (@mnwild) December 4, 2022
After Eriksson's Ek goal put the Wild up 5-1, the wheels fell off for the Wild.
Hintz, Jason Robertson and Mason Marchment scored in a span of 2 minutes, 43 seconds to cut the deficit to 5-4. And Hintz completed the hat trick when the Stars had their goalie pulled with 2:11 left in the third period.
Up next: Wild at Calgary, 7 p.m. Wednesday
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