WINNIPEG – The Minnesota Wild snapped a two-game dropping streak on Saturday by handing the Winnipeg Jets their fifth straight loss.
Matt Boldy scored his second aim of the sport 39 seconds into time beyond regulation to guide the Wild to a 4-3 come-from-behind win earlier than a sold-out crowd of 15,225 at Canada Life Centre.
“I believe it’s good,” stated Wild coach John Hynes. “I imply, we knew we had been coming in right here dropping the final two video games off the break. And this can be a massive stretch of video games for us in addition to an enormous journey. And I give the blokes a number of credit score.
“I assumed we did a very good job of sticking with it and overcoming some adversity on the finish of the second interval. And that’s what we want. We’re gonna spend a number of time collectively. We’ve received six extra massive video games on the journey.”
The Jets had scored two fast objectives — by Kyle Connor and Mark Scheifele — within the remaining 2:04 of the second to take a 3-2 lead into the third interval.
“So, to start out off with an excellent win within the vogue that it was, hopefully ought to set us up transferring ahead right here on the journey,” Hynes stated.
Mats Zuccarello scored the tying aim on the facility play and goalie Jesper Wallstedt pulled with 21 seconds left within the third to pressure the OT. Dylan DeMelo had taken a cross-checking penalty when he took exception to Josh Morrissey being checked into the boards by Joel Eriksson Ek and no penalty was referred to as.
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“That’s a horrible non-call on Josh Morrissey,” stated Jets coach Scott Arniel. “It ought to have been referred to as. Head-first into the boards. After which, a ticky-tacky little name (on DeMelo) after that.
“Some other prime gamers within the league, elite gamers, get hit from behind into the boards, I’m fairly positive that’s a penalty.”
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That despatched the sport into time beyond regulation, the place the Wild pulled out the victory.
“Yeah, it’s big,” stated Boldy, who had knotted the rating at 1-1 late within the first interval. “A protracted journey, to start out off optimistic and maintain that power up after an extended day and an early flight, that’s big for us. So, we received to make use of that to our benefit for the sport (towards Vegas) arising.”
The Wild caught with it after being stung by these two fast objectives.
“I didn’t assume it was a nasty recreation from us,” Boldy stated. “I didn’t assume it was our greatest, however simply sticking with it, taking the positives and getting again on observe I believe is the most important factor.
“For us, after we’re taking part in laborious and easy and letting the performs come to us fairly than pressure them, that’s what makes us good. I believe, within the second there, we had been forcing somewhat bit an excessive amount of and attempting to make too many performs, and (we) went out for the third and type of simplified a bit and located a technique to tie it up.”
Kirill Kaprizov scored the opposite Minnesota aim and Quinn Hughes added three assists.
Wallstedt made 23 saves.
“It’s a tough recreation,” he stated. “They get a pair attractiveness they usually capitalized on a few of them, however I simply maintain reminding myself to only attempt to maintain the group within the recreation, make the following save and do my finest to ensure there’s nonetheless an opportunity to win the sport. Luckily at present, we may and the blokes got here up massive.
“I assumed, total, a lot of the recreation was a tight-fought match. Clearly, on the finish of the second, we type of made some small errors they usually ended up capitalizing on their possibilities. However I assumed the sport total was tight all through and on the finish there, we knew perhaps we had an additional stage and we put that in and I assumed we created loads and clearly capitalized on the finish.”
Morrissey scored the opposite aim for the Jets, who misplaced one more one-goal recreation.
“To me, that was a robust effort, it actually was a robust effort by us,” Arniel stated. “It’s one thing that ought to have been two factors. We’ve received to ensure, these one-goal video games, we’ve received to discover a approach. That one had somewhat bit completely different really feel to it. That had a distinct final result than perhaps a few of the previous ones have.
“No one’s joyful about that. No one’s joyful about dropping. We needed each factors. We want each factors. We didn’t get it.”
This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed Dec. 28, 2025.
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