Andrei Kuzmenko (2 targets) helps Flames to win over Wild

Jan 26, 2025 08:43 AM IST
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Andrei Kuzmenko tallied two targets and an help and the Calgary Flames escaped with a 5-4 win over the Minnesota Wild on Saturday night time in Saint Paul, Minn.
Martin Pospisil completed with a objective and an help for Calgary, which gained its third recreation in a row. Rasmus Andersson and Clark Bishop added one objective apiece.
Mats Zuccarello had a objective and an help to steer the Wild. Joel Eriksson Ek, Frederick Gaudreau and Marcus Foligno additionally scored.
Flames goaltender Dustin Wolf stopped 21 of 25 photographs.
Wild goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury gave up 5 targets on 29 photographs.
Calgary opened the scoring on the ability play with 13:02 to go within the first interval. Kuzmenko redirected a shot from Nazem Kadri for his second objective in three video games.
The Wild pulled even at 1-1 with 10:26 remaining within the first interval. Zuccarello zipped a move to Eriksson Ek, who fired a wrist shot above Wolf’s glove-side shoulder.
The Flames regained the lead with 7:32 left within the second interval. Fleury denied Pospisil on a breakaway, however Calgary saved the puck within the offensive zone and it led to a second likelihood for Pospisil, who buried a forehand shot close to the entrance of the crease.
Andersson elevated Calgary’s cushion to 3-1 with eight seconds left within the second. He buried a one-timer from the correct circle for his first objective since Dec. 3.
Bishop made it 4-1 with 8:07 remaining within the third interval. He scored on an odd-man rush for his first objective of the season and the second of his profession.
Minnesota pulled inside 4-2 on the ability play with 5:45 to go within the third interval. Gaudreau punched in a rebound after Ryan Hartman’s preliminary shot was stopped.
Kuzmenko made it 5-2 for Calgary when he beat Fleury on a wraparound with 5:31 left. It was his fourth objective of the season.
Foligno notched an even-strength objective to chop the deficit to 5-3 with 1:14 to play.
Zuccarello completed the scoring with 27 seconds left to drag the Wild inside 5-4.
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