Frederick Gaudreau had a goal and an assist, and goalie Cam Talbot stopped 37 shots as the Minnesota Wild defeated the visiting Carolina Hurricanes 3-2 on Saturday night at Saint Paul, Minn.
Kevin Fiala and Kirill Kaprizov also scored for the Wild, who won for the seventh time in their last eight games.
Andrei Svechnikov scored twice in an 81-second span in the third period for Carolina, which is 1-2-1 in four road games since the All-Star break. Tony DeAngelo assisted on both goals.
Hurricanes goalie Frederik Andersen made 24 saves. Carolina will have its next two games at home.
The Wild improved to 15-3-1 in home games. Talbot has posted victories in all three of his outings since returning in late January from an injury.
Minnesota was coming off a shutout loss earlier in the week at Winnipeg and it failed to score in this matchup until Fiala’s goal just past the midway mark of the second period. Fiala has scored a goal in seven of the Wild’s last 10 games.
Talbot faced 24 shots through two periods, including 16 in the second, without yielding a goal.
The Wild were up 3-0 after Kaprizov and Gaudreau scored in the first 2:34 of the second period. Kaprizov is the first Minnesota player to reach the 20-goal mark this season.
Then Svechnikov got going. His two goals pushed his season total to 20, becoming the team’s second 20-goal scorer of the season. He has six goals across the last six games.
The second of those tallies Saturday came with 13:37 to play. Soon after, the Hurricanes went on a power play, but they failed to convert and later couldn’t come up with a tying goal after pulling Andersen.
This was a make-up game from a scheduled matchup in mid-December, when COVID-19 issues arose with the Hurricanes and the game was called off several hours prior to the scheduled puck drop.
–Field Level Media
