Matt Boldy scored a pair of goals, and the Minnesota Wild pulled away for a 5-2 win over the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday afternoon in Saint Paul, Minn.
Vladimir Tarasenko added a goal and an assist for Minnesota, which won its seventh game in a row. Ryan Hartman and Nico Storm scored one goal apiece.
Andrew Mangiapane and Connor McDavid scored one goal each for Edmonton, which lost for the first time in the past three games.
Wild goaltender Filip Gustavsson turned aside 28 of 30 shots to pick up the victory.
Oilers goaltender Calvin Pickard allowed four goals on 36 shots. Pickard made the start one day after Edmonton placed newly acquired goaltender Tristan Jarry (lower body) on injured reserve.
Boldy opened the scoring for the Wild 3:42 into the first period. He got the puck on a breakaway and turned to his backhand to beat Pickard.
Midway through the first period, Boldy struck again — this time on the power play. He hammered a one-timer from the right circle for his second goal of the game and his 22nd of the season.
Edmonton cut the deficit to 2-1 with 6:25 remaining in the first period when Mangiapane parked in front of the crease and redirected a shot past Gustavsson.
The Oilers pulled even at 2 on a power-play goal with 1:16 to go in the first period. A group of players searched for a loose puck near the net, and McDavid spotted it first and punched it in.
The Wild responded with eight seconds left in the first period. Hartman got behind the defense, received a pass from Jake Middleton and tapped it past Pickard.
The scoring settled down until midway through the third period, when Tarasenko increased the Wild’s lead to 4-2. He chased down a rebound and scored on a backhand.
Sturm finished the scoring with an empty-net goal with 1:25 remaining.
McDavid led the Oilers with six shots on goal. Hartman and Kirill Kaprizov finished with six apiece to lead the Wild.
–Field Level Media
