Postgame Hat Trick: Wild 3, New York Rangers 2

Wild.com's Dan Myers gives three takeaways from the Wild's 3-2 win against the New York Rangers at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul on Tuesday night:

1. For the third consecutive game, the Wild jumped out to a 3-zip lead.
Eric Staal's goal 3:09 into the game came on the first shot on goal for either team and gave Minnesota an early advantage.

Just over a minute later, Zach Parise made it 2-0 on the Wild's third shot on goal.

Less than two minutes after that, Marcus Foligno accepted a pass from Daniel Winnik and buried a wrister top shelf for a three-goal lead.

2. Two of the three goals resulted from turnovers by the Rangers.
Parise's goal was vintage; an outstanding forecheck forced Rangers forward Rick Nash into an awkward position. Nash tried to rid himself of the puck, but Parise poked it off his stick from near the hashes in front of Henrik Lundqvist, where it snuck between the King, his right pad and the post, sneaking just across the goal line.
It was the fourth consecutive game with a point for Parise but his first goal since he scored in back-to-back games Jan. 20 and 22.
3. New York scored the following two goals of the game, raising anxiety levels inside Xcel Energy Center.
During parts of the second period, it even seemed like stretches of last week's game against Arizona, in which Minnesota coughed up a 3-0 lead in an eventual 4-3 overtime loss. The Rangers outshot the Wild 19-8, but Devan Dubnyk was big when he needed to be, preserving the lead.

Unlike the effort against the Coyotes, however, the Wild wasn't satisfied to simply protect a third-period lead. Minnesota came out with jump, nearly getting insurance markers from Jason Zucker and Matt Cullen early in the period.
The Wild outshot the Rangers 8-4 in the final period, running its franchise-record home points streak to 13 games (10-0-3).

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