Minnesota Wild at Dallas Stars

· National Hockey League

Minnesota Wild

13-9-2

Final
6 - 5

Dallas Stars

14-6-5

Wild beat Stars 6-5 in shootout after blowing 4-goal lead

Coming off a 5-4 shootout victory over Anaheim on Saturday, Minnesota ran its winning streak to four.

“This one feels good,” Gaudreau said. “We kept our calm.”

Roope Hintz had his second career hat trick for the Stars, who earned points for the 10th time in 11 games. Jason Robertson and Joe Pavelski scored to open the shootout, but Hintz’s backhander rolled just short of the goal line, giving Gaudreau the chance to end it.

Hintz’s final goal, with an extra skater on, tied it at 5 with 2:11 left in regulation.

“They pushed, we gave up the big lead,” Wild coach Dean Evason said. “But did we quit? Did we shut it down? Did we stop playing? No. They just kept going about their business.”

Kaprizov, Joel Ericksson Ek, Connor Dewar, Jake Middleton and Jordan Greenway scored for the Wild in regulation, and Marc-Andre Fleury made 30 saves.

Robertson had his NHL-best 23rd goal and an assist to push his team-record points streak to 18 games. Mason Marchment also had a goal and an assist for the Stars. Hintz also had an assist.

“We knew if we got one, we were going to get more,” said Hintz, whose previous hat trick came in November 2021. “It’s good we got one point.”

Minnesota used a three-goal burst in a 2:50-span of the second period to take a 4-1 lead and made it 5-1 29 seconds into the third after Dallas goalie Jake Oettinger was replaced by Scott Wedgewood.

Dewar opened the second-period flurry with a short-handed goal and Middleton and Greenway also connected.

Oettinger, a Minnesota native, allowed four goals on 16 shots. Wedgewood made 14 saves in 20 minutes.

Dewar’s goal midway through the second period was the Wild’s NHL-leading fifth short-handed goal and the first allowed by Dallas this season.

Kaprizov has a career-best 12-game points streak (eight goals, 11 assists) and a six-game goal streak. The goal streak matches his own franchise record shared with Nino Niederreiter and Brian Rolston.

NOTES

The Wild are 3-1 in shootouts and 7-3 after regulation., Dallas is 0-2 and 0-6. … Robertson has 41 points, third in the NHL. … Greenway and Oettinger were teammates at Boston University for two seasons.

UP NEXT

Wild: At Calgary on Wednesday night.

Stars: Host Toronto on Tuesday night.

Regular Season Series

MIN leads series 1-0

Scoring Summary

Goal	1st Period 15:04	Goal scored by Kirill Kaprizov assisted by Mats Zuccarello and Calen Addison (PPG)
Goal	2nd Period 6:58	Goal scored by Roope Hintz assisted by Jason Robertson
Goal	2nd Period 10:42	Goal scored by Connor Dewar assisted by Mason Shaw (SHG)
Goal	2nd Period 13:17	Goal scored by Jake Middleton assisted by Jared Spurgeon and Ryan Reaves
Goal	2nd Period 13:32	Goal scored by Jordan Greenway assisted by Ryan Reaves
Goal	3rd Period 0:29	Goal scored by Joel Eriksson Ek assisted by Marcus Foligno and Jared Spurgeon
Goal	3rd Period 7:12	Goal scored by Roope Hintz assisted by Joe Pavelski and Mason Marchment
Goal	3rd Period 7:50	Goal scored by Jason Robertson assisted by Roope Hintz and Esa Lindell
Goal	3rd Period 9:55	Goal scored by Mason Marchment assisted by Joe Pavelski and Radek Faksa
Goal	3rd Period 17:49	Goal scored by Roope Hintz assisted by Joe Pavelski and Colin Miller
Goal	5 0:00	Shootout GOAL scored by Jason Robertson on Marc-Andre Fleury
Goal	5 0:00	Shootout GOAL scored by Mats Zuccarello on Scott Wedgewood
Goal	5 0:00	Shootout GOAL scored by Joe Pavelski on Marc-Andre Fleury
Goal	5 0:00	Shootout GOAL scored by Kirill Kaprizov on Scott Wedgewood
Goal	5 0:00	Shootout GOAL scored by Frederick Gaudreau on Scott Wedgewood

Statistics

MIN		DAL
21	Blocked Shots	11
28	Hits	13
5	Takeaways	6
31	Shots	35
1	Power Play Goals	0
4	Power Play Opportunities	4
25.0	Power Play Percentage	0.0
1	Short Handed Goals	0
0	Shootout Goals	0
28	Faceoffs Won	26
51.9	Faceoff Win Percent	48.1
6	Giveaways	10
5	Total Penalties	5
13	Penalty Minutes	13