ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP)– Matt Boldy tape-recorded his 2nd profession hat technique and the Minnesota Wild rebounded to beat Washington 5-3 on Sunday.
Minnesota, which had its 14- video game point-streak end Saturday versus Boston, is within one point of Dallas for the Central Department lead and 2 points up on Colorado for 2nd with a lots video games to play.
Ryan Reaves and Brandon Duhaime likewise scored, and Marc-Andre Fleury made 33 conserves for Minnesota, enhancing to 7-0-0 in his last 7 starts.
” Often when you go on a streak like that and after that you lose one it’s simple in some cases to downturn. It was necessary to ensure that we didn’t,” Reaves stated.
Alex Ovechkin scored two times on the power play and Dylan Strome as soon as for Washington, which is 2-4-1 in its previous 7 video games. The Capitals track Pittsburgh by 5 points for the last wild card area with 11 video games staying. Charlie Lindgren stopped 35 shots.
The trio of Boldy, Marcus Johansson and Joel Eriksson Ek has actually set the tone for Minnesota in the 5 video games given that Kirill Kaprizov was hurt. Boldy has 5 objectives and 4 helps, Johansson has 2 objectives and 5 helps and Eriksson Ek has an objective and 4 helps.
Yet coach Dean Evason stated for group success it needs to be, and has actually been, more than about those 3 gamers.
” I would take it as the group has stepped up? Not simply a couple of people. Everyone. Everyone has. I do not believe they beinged in there and stated people we need to score now. They have actually constantly attempted to rating, however with his lack they all understand that there’s a little additional push that’s required to be had.”
Boldy finished his hat technique on a breakaway with 6: 02 to play, and 85 seconds after Ovechkin got the Capitals within 4-2. Boldy’s other three-goal video game was Feb. 14, 2022.
Less than a minute into the video game, Boldy knocked house a loose puck from a Johansson shot after T.J. Oshie whiffed on a cleaning effort. 4 crisp, textbook-like passes in between the trio made it 2-0 by means of a Boldy one-timer from low in the ideal circle less than 4 minutes later on.
” Some video games are easily. It follows you,” Boldy stated. “Linemates are playing incredible. One, simply an excellent play by Jojo, who lays it right there.
” Then the 3-on-2 one everybody gets a touch, simply snapping it around. The 3rd one I get a breakaway. It’s a lot of credit to those men.”
It’s the 3rd time in 4 video games Washington tracked by 2 after an opening duration.
” You eliminate the very first 5 minutes of the last 5 video games. I seem like we have actually got more objectives than the other group,” Strome stated. Because quintet, the current very first objective permitted by the Capitals is 5: 18.
From his power-play house atop the left circle, Ovechkin lasered a shot past Fleury early in the 2nd and scored from about the exact same location in the 3rd. He has 27 objectives in 45 video games versus Fleury, his most versus a single goaltender.
Ovechkin has actually tape-recorded a point in every video game in Minnesota because Oct. 12, 2006, and his 0.90 objectives per video game versus the Wild– 19 objectives in 21 video games– is the greatest rate he has actually tape-recorded versus a challenger.
With 39 objectives, his next tally will mark his 13 th season with a minimum of 40 objectives, breaking a tie with Wayne Gretzky for the majority of in league history.
Washington forward Evgeny Kuznetsov left the video game stooped over early in the 3rd duration after getting squashed by Matt Dumba. Oshie and Dumba then dropped the gloves.
” I do not like the hit, a gamer’s susceptible like that takes a pop to his head,” stated Washington coach Peter Laviolette. He had no upgrade on Kuznetsov.
BOUNTIFUL BOLDY
Boldy has 22 objectives this season, signing up with Marian Gaborik as the only gamers in Wild history to score a minimum of 20 objectives in a season prior to age22 Gaborik had 30 in 2001-02 and 2002-03 Now at 51 points, Boldy likewise signs up with Gaborik (67 in 2001-02, 65 in 2002-03) and Pierre-Marc Bouchard (59 in 2005-06) as the only Wild skaters to get at least 50 points in a season prior to age 22.
UP NEXT
Capitals: Host Columbus on Tuesday.
Wild: At New Jersey on Tuesday.
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