Matt Boldy lifts Wild to win in Utah’s first-ever shootout

Marcus Johansson had a objective and two assists and Marat Khusnutdinov, Kirill Kaprizov and Marco Rossi scored for Minnesota. Filip Gustavsson stopped 21 photographs for the victory.

Clayton Keller scored twice and Kevin Stenlund and defenseman Juuso Valimaki acquired the opposite targets for Utah. Dylan Guenther and Mikhail Sergachev every logged two assists, Karel Vejmelka made 34 saves by regulation and time beyond regulation.

It was the primary shootout in Utah NHL historical past. The franchise is in its first season in Salt Lake Metropolis after shifting from Arizona.

Rossi’s objective with 44 seconds left in regulation and Gustavsson pulled for an additional attacker tied it at 4 and despatched the sport into time beyond regulation. Rossi’s tenth objective of the season got here from the slot.

The tally capped a frenetic third interval that featured 5 targets.

Keller’s power-play objective 4:42 into the third interval tied it 2-2, however the Wild retook the lead lower than a minute later when Johansson scored at 5:39.

Keller tied it once more with one other power-play objective at 9:54.

Valimaki’s objective with 8:15 left gave the Utah Hockey Membership a 4-3 lead. He put in a rebound.

The Wild scored twice in 36 seconds late within the second interval to take a 2-1 lead.

Khusnutdinov intercepted a cross by Sergachev on the Minnesota blue line, skated down the ice and beat Vejmelka with a wrist shot to tie the sport 1-1, with 5:35 left within the center interval. It was Khusnutdinov’s first objective of the season.

Johansson then poked the puck away from defenseman Olli Maatta simply contained in the Utah blue line to arrange Kaprizov for his 18th objective and provides the Wild the 2-1 benefit with 4:59 remaining within the second.

Stenlund acquired the sport’s first objective with 6:14 left within the opening interval. It was Stenlund’s fourth objective and the third consecutive sport through which he scored.

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