Marcus Johansson scored the winning goal to lift the Minnesota Wild to a 3-2 overtime win over the Nashville Predators on Tuesday night in St. Paul, Minn.
Kirill Kaprizov and Zeev Buium also scored for Minnesota, which won back-to-back games for the first time this season. Brock Faber had two assists and blocked a team-high six shots.
Matthew Wood and Steven Stamkos scored for Nashville, which earned one point in the standings with a last-second goal that sent the game to overtime.
Wild goaltender Filip Gustavsson stopped 32 shots to improve to 4-6-1 on the season.
Predators goaltender Justus Annunen turned aside 22 shots.
Johansson was credited with the goal that helped the Wild avoid a late collapse. He stood at the left side of the crease and shot toward a wide-open net immediately after Annunen kicked the far goal post off its moorings.
The goal stood after officials determined that Annunen intentionally dislodged the post.
The Predators evened the score at 2-2 with three-tenths of a second remaining in regulation. Nashville had an extra attacker on the ice, and Stamkos delivered with a one-timer from the top of the left circle.
The Wild opened the scoring on the power play midway through the first period. Kaprizov handled the puck at the top of the slot and fired a rising shot through traffic and into the net.
The sequence produced Kaprizov’s team-leading eighth goal in 14 games this season.
Nashville pulled even at 1-1 with 14:44 to go in the second period. Michael McCarron carried the puck toward the crease and flipped a backhand pass to Wood, who punched in a shot from the right side of the net.
The 20-year-old Wood lifted his arms to celebrate his third goal in 14 career games. The Predators drafted him in the first round (No. 15 overall) in 2023.
Another power-play goal gave Minnesota a 2-1 lead with 3:59 remaining in the second period. Buium skated toward the slot and redirected a long shot from the blue line past Annunen.
–Field Level Media
