Kirill Kaprizov scored a power-play goal 18 seconds into overtime to fuel the visiting Minnesota Wild to a 2-1 victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Tuesday.
Matt Boldy’s diagonal seam pass from outside the left circle to deep in the right circle found Kaprizov, who unleashed a one-timer past rookie goaltender Jacob Fowler. The goal was the team-leading 17th of the season for Kaprizov, who joined defenseman Quinn Hughes in extending their respective point streaks to nine games.
Bobby Brink scored 2:53 into the third period and Jesper Wallstedt made 27 saves for the Wild, who boosted their point streak to nine games overall (7-0-2) and matched their highest win total (13) through 20 games of a season in franchise history (13 in both 2021-22 and 2024-25). Minnesota also improved to 20-2-0 in their last 22 games versus Montreal.
The sterling goaltending duel between Wallstedt and Fowler (22 saves) came on the same day that the Canadiens honored netminder Carey Price, who spent his entire 15-year career with Montreal.
Price received nearly a four-minute standing ovation from the Bell Centre faithful before the game. He was then added to the team’s Ring of Honor, one day after he was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.
Montreal captain Nick Suzuki scored to forge a 1-1 tie with 1:38 remaining in the third period.
Cole Caufield fired a shot at the net that caused the puck to skid along the goal line, and Suzuki alertly got his stick on the puck before Minnesota’s Blake Coleman inadvertently knocked the puck into the net.
Despite the loss, the Canadiens extended their point streak to 11 games (8-0-3).
Minnesota finally snapped the scoreless deadlock in the third period when Montreal’s Josh Anderson was unable to cleanly glove the puck near the blue line, allowing Brink to pick his pocket and skate off on a breakaway. Brink snapped a shot past Fowler for his second goal of the season and first since Oct. 25.
Montreal nearly opened the scoring with 7:33 remaining in the first period on what originally was deemed to be its first shot of the game. Video review revealed Alex Newhook’s bid hit the post and did not cross the goal line, however.
–Field Level Media
