STREET. PAUL, Minn. — Former rangers Mats Zuccarello and Frederick Gaudreau scored in a shootout and the Minnesota Wild rallied to beat the New Jersey Devils 3-2 on Saturday.
Joel Eriksson Ek and Ryan Hartman scored in regulation and Filip Gustavsson stopped 27 photographs for the Wild, ending a three-game skid.
Tomas Tatar had a pair of objectives for the Devils, whose three-game successful streak ended, however New Jersey is 10-1-2 in its final 13 video games. Vitek Vanecek had 22 saves.
Starting a four-game journey, the Devils stay a league-best 19-3-3 on the highway.
Zuccarello scored on Wild’s first shootout try and Tatar missed for the Devils. Minnesota’s Kirill Kaprizov and New Jersey’s Jesper Bratt every missed within the second spherical earlier than Gaudreau slowly skated and put up a excessive shot together with his glove.
Minnesota is 5-2 in penalty kicks.
Down by one going into the third interval, a Matt Dumba slap shot bounced off Hartman’s higher physique and previous Vanecek at 5:25. Hartman took a number of seconds to gingerly rise up earlier than celebrating.
The Devils led 2-1 after two durations due to Tatar’s first multi-goal recreation since April 12, 2021, when he performed for Montreal.
After a gap interval wherein New Jersey struggled for constant entrance management or offensive zone time, Tatar acquired a cross from Ondrej Palat and hit a shot previous Gustavsson early within the second. Simply over three minutes later, he redirected a flurry from Damon Severson.
Tatar had 15 objectives and 15 assists and was minus-22 final season, his first with New Jersey. This yr the left band has 30 factors —12 objectives— and is a plus-28.
Badly outmatched in a 4-1 loss in Dallas on Wednesday and a 5-1 dwelling loss to Las Vegas on Thursday, the Wild got here out with a giant effort and a fast lead when Eriksson Ek redirected a Calen Addison wrist shot to an influence. play rating nearly six minutes in.
New Jersey defenseman Dougie Hamilton had an help to increase his scoring streak to seven video games. He has 5 objectives and 9 assists in the course of the span. His 37 assists for the season match a profession excessive in 2016-17 with Calgary.
Addison’s help gave him 23 on the season, and it was his 18th level on energy performs. Each are the very best amongst rookie defensemen within the NHL.
