The visiting Minnesota Wild extended their point streak to 11 games and won their eighth straight on the road, cruising past the Boston Bruins 6-2 on Saturday night.
Ryan Hartman and Danila Yurov each scored twice, and Blake Coleman had a goal and two assists and goaltender Jesper Wallstedt had 30 saves as Minnesota earned an NHL-best 14th victory of the season.
Following their multi-point efforts, Quinn Hughes (one goal, one assist) and Kirill Kaprizov (two assists) have recorded points during each game of the Wild’s 9-0-2 run.
David Pastrnak had a goal and an assist, Fraser Minten also scored, and Jeremy Swayman made 19 stops for the Bruins, who have lost back-to-back games since a four-game win streak.
The Wild was outshot 32-25 despite six power plays.
Minnesota defenseman Brock Faber (one assist, plus-4 rating in 24:29 of ice time) made his regular-season debut after recovering from a skull fracture after a puck hit him in the ear in the preseason.
Hartman opened the scoring just seconds after a Wild power play expired at 6:54 into the first period, making a top-shelf snipe from the bottom of the left circle off Coleman’s feed from behind the goal line.
Two goals in 1:07 early in the middle frame helped Minnesota take command with a 3-0 lead. Fifty-three seconds in, Hughes spun from the right circle into open space near the center point and beat Swayman with a long wrist shot through traffic.
Coleman added to the Wild’s lead at the 2:00 mark, teeing up a one-timer from the high slot that bounced off a defender and slipped past Swayman.
Minten got the hosts on the board with a power-play tally at 8:45, as Pastrnak set him up for a quick shot from the bottom of the left circle.
Swayman stopped Massachusetts native Matt Boldy short-handed right before Boston scored, but the Bruins could not seize the momentum as Hartman scored his second on a transition feed from Kaprizov just 1:15 later, halfway through the game.
In the third, Pastrnak brought the Bruins back within 4-2 when he kicked Nikita Zadorov’s pass out of the corner to himself and whipped home a shot from the right dot.
Yurov turned the momentum back in Minnesota’s favor and made it a three-goal game again at 6:15, tapping the puck into an open side of the net after receiving Yakov Trenin’s cross-ice pass on the odd-man rush.
An empty-netter from Yurov with 4:39 to play capped the scoring.
–Field Level Media
