Kirill Kaprizov buried Joel Eriksson Ek’s one-time feed for his second goal of the night as the visiting Minnesota Wild came from behind for a 4-3 overtime win against the Boston Bruins on Tuesday night.
Kaprizov and Ryan Hartman scored consecutive goals in the latter half of the third period as Minnesota climbed out of a 2-1 deficit to take the lead. Boston’s Brad Marchand scored with 1:06 left in regulation to force the extra session.
Marcus Johansson also tallied for Minnesota, which has four wins in its past five games. Three of those victories came in overtime or a shootout.
Marc-Andre Fleury made a season-high 40 saves for the Wild, facing double-digit shots in both the second and third periods.
The Bruins had a 43-30 shots advantage.
David Pastrnak logged his fourth multigoal game of the season with two first-period tallies for the Bruins, who have played four straight overtime contests (1-0-3). Boston’s Pavel Zacha had two assists, and Linus Ullmark stopped 26 shots.
Fleury’s play — which included denying a Pastrnak one-timer and a Zacha drive to the crease in quick succession on the first of Boston’s two third-period power plays — set the table for his team’s game-tying effort.
The Wild knotted the score at 2-2 with 6:48 left in regulation when Kaprizov, at the right crease, buried the rebound of Jake Middleton’s point shot.
The go-ahead goal came 1:58 later as Hartman ripped a shot off the crossbar and in after corralling the carom of Marco Rossi’s blocked drive from the point that stayed loose in the low slot.
Boston opted to pull Ullmark for an extra attacker following a high-sticking penalty on Minnesota’s Alex Goligoski, setting up Marchand’s tying goal through a wild net-front scramble.
Johansson gave the Wild an early lead with a power-play goal at 7:44 of the first period, slotting home his own deflection of Frederick Gaudreau’s initial point shot that dribbled into the slot.
The hosts drew even at 11:29. John Beecher slipped through a check coming through the neutral zone and fed a cross-ice pass to Pastrnak, who strode for a wrist shot at the top of the circle.
Pastrnak beat the first-period buzzer by 0.8 seconds for Boston’s go-ahead goal. Zacha won a puck battle and spun out of the corner into the slot, feeding the puck to Pastrnak to bury from the low left circle.
Minnesota forward Vinni Lettieri was helped off the ice after blocking a Marchand one-timer with his leg early in the third period. He did not return.
–Field Level Media
