Five forwards score for Wild against Panthers

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Five forwards scored, and the Minnesota Wild won their fifth straight game, 5-1 against the Florida Panthers at Xcel Energy Center on Tuesday.
"I loved the fact that we can spread it out and get five goals amongst three lines," Minnesota coach Bruce Boudreau said. "You'd like it to be four lines. You can't have everything."

Wild goaltender Devan Dubnyk made 29 saves. He is 5-0-0 with seven goals allowed in his past five games.
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Minnesota (16-8-4) is 10-3-0 at home.
"We need to keep climbing," Dubnyk said. "It's exciting to be in this spot with games at hand as well, and again, those games don't matter unless we win them, but it's still a good situation to be in.
"Winning is fun, so you just gotta keep doing it."
Dylan McIlrath scored, and Roberto Luongo made 12 saves on 17 shots before he was pulled in the third period. The goal was McIlrath's first with the Panthers.
"We knew coming in they were a disciplined, structured team," McIlrath said. "They made it tough on us all night. I don't think we did enough to create. Their goalie was seeing a lot of shots and we didn't get to the net."
Jason Zucker scored on a breakaway at 8:26 of the third period for a 5-0 lead. Mikko Koivu made it 4-0 at 6:04.
Erik Haula scored on a rebound at 4:11 of the second period for a 2-0 lead, and Eric Staal made it 3-0 at 9:46.
Zach Parise scored his first goal since Nov. 25 to make it 1-0 at 11:19 of the first period.
"I tried to shoot the puck a little more and get to the net a little more lately," Parise said. "I've had better chances. They haven't gone in. Fortunately, that one went in for me."
A goal by Florida forward Kyle Rau at 8:39 of the second period was overturned after a coach's challenge. The review determined the play was offside.
James Reimer replaced Luongo at 8:26 of the third period and made five saves. McIlrath scored at 15:36.
Panthers forward Jaromir Jagr did not have a point and remains four behind Mark Messier for second in NHL history (1,187-1,183). Wayne Gretzky is first with 2,857.
"It's a bad loss," Panthers coach Tom Rowe said. "We didn't generate enough scoring chances. We outshot them [30-22], I get it, but our shots were from the outside and we didn't have enough guys going to the net.
"When you're going through the rut that we're going through right now offensively, everybody presses a little more and they don't do what comes naturally."

Goal of the game

Jason Pominville passed to Staal on a breakaway. Luongo stopped the first shot but Staal scored on the rebound.

Save of the game

Luongo skated out of the crease at 7:13 of the second period to deny a 2-on-1. Parise, who had a wide open net, shot but Luongo made the save with his stick.

Unsung performance of the game

Wild defenseman Christian Folin bailed out Dubnyk at 4:58 of the third period with a poke-check to stop a potential goal by Rau. Folin added three hits and three blocked shots in his first game back after missing the past seven games with a knee injury.

Highlight of the game

Zucker received a pass from Mathew Dumba to lead the breakaway. Switching to his backhand he sent it top-shelf for the five-goal lead.

They said it

"Guys have got to understand that if you're going to play in the National Hockey League you've got to show up every single day; [you] can't show up when you feel like it." -- Panthers coach Tom Rowe
"It's a long season, so you need some nights some other guys stepping up and the next night some other guys. If you look around the League, all the good teams, they have that depth. Now that we're healthy, you can really see that. All lines were going." -- Wild captain Mikko Koivu on balanced scoring
"Power plays, we've got to score. That's a game-changer. We gave up way too many odd-man rushes to leave Luongo out to dry. I think that was the main key." -- Panthers forward Nick Bjugstad on going 0-7 on the power play

Need to know

Panthers forward Jonathan Marchessault had an assist in his return after missing five games with a lower-body injury. … Wild forward Nino Niederreiter assisted on Haula's goal and has 10 points in 11 games. … Wild forward Mikael Granlund assisted on Koivu's goal and has a season-high four-game point streak.

What's next:

Wild: At the Nashville Predators on Thursday (8 p.m. ET; FS-N, FS-WI, FS-TN, NHL.TV)
Panthers: At the Winnipeg Jets on Thursday (8 p.m. ET; FS-F, TSN3, NHL.TV)