Six Wild score in win against Blues

ST. LOUIS -- Mikko Koivu, Jason Zucker and Eric Staal each had a goal and an assist for the Minnesota Wild in a 6-2 win against the St. Louis Blues at Scottrade Center on Tuesday.
Nino Niederreiter, Marcus Foligno and Matt Dumba scored, Mikael Granlund had two assists, and Devan Dubnyk made 35 saves for the Wild (29-19-5), who are 7-2-1 their past 10 games.

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Minnesota was coming off a 6-1 loss at the Dallas Stars on Saturday.
"It was something you want to forget right away and move forward," Koivu said. "We wanted to learn from it, and I thought we did that. I thought we responded really well."
Blues goaltender Carter Hutton lost for the first time in five starts and was replaced by Jake Allen to begin the second period after allowing three goals on eight shots. He allowed two goals on 123 shots and had two shutouts and a .984 save percentage his previous four starts.

The Wild scored six goals on 20 shots.
Jaden Schwartz and Dmitrij Jaskin scored for St. Louis (32-20-3).
"Goalies stand on their head for two months, and then we do that to them," Blues captain Alex Pietrangelo said. "Just disconnect all over the ice."
Schwartz gave the Blues a 1-0 lead 45 seconds into the game, but the Wild scored three goals in the first period, including two in 1:14.
Niederreiter tied it 1-1 on a shot from the slot at 2:02, Foligno made it 2-1 at 16:53, and Koivu scored on the power play at 18:07 to make it 3-1.

"[Dubnyk] made the saves when we needed them, and then we were able to get the puck to the net when we had a chance," Koivu said. "I thought that was good for the confidence, and after what happened last game, that was very important that we could get the lead."
Zucker scored with a backhand at 9:45 of the second period to make it 4-1, and Dumba's one-timer from the left face-off circle got between Allen's pads to make it 5-1 at 16:19.
Staal scored on the power play to put St. Louis ahead 6-1 at 5:05 of the third period.
Jaskin made it 6-2 at 12:36.
"I hope this is a confidence-builder, especially for road play," Wild coach Bruce Boudreau said. "To win in this building is a little special."

Goal of the game

Zucker's goal at 9:45 of the second period.

Save of the game

Dubnyk stopping Vladimir Tarasenko at 12:59 of the first period.

Highlight of the game

Koivu's goal at 18:07 of the first period.

They said it

"It feels good, but I'm not satisfied with it and I want to be better. It's nice to be clicking as a line, but it's even better to get a win against a team like this." -- Wild forward Jason Zucker on tying his NHL career high for goals (22)
"I feel real upset about our game tonight. I feel really upset about this loss, not only about my game. But trust me, not one of us wants to play like this. We're trying hard. I know it's not enough now. Like I said, it's on us to find out what's going on." -- Blues forward Vladimir Tarasenko
"Yeah, we can't ... that's disturbing, that's disappointing that we're coming out and ... the turnovers that we had in the first period, instead of making it hard on [Minnesota] and making it a really tough night, we didn't do that. We made it easy and we allowed them to get going. Yeah, that's something we've got to fix, obviously." -- Blues coach Mike Yeo

Need to know

Zucker scored his 22nd goal in his 53rd game; he had 22 in 79 games last season. ... Granlund has 21 points (eight goals, 13 assists) the past 17 games. ... Staal has 11 points (four goals, seven assists) the past eight games. ... Dubnyk is 6-1-1 with a 2.38 goals-against average and .920 save percentage his past nine games (eight starts). ... Jaskin's goal was his first in 22 games dating to Dec. 9 at the Detroit Red Wings.

What's next

Wild: Host the Arizona Coyotes on Thursday (8 p.m. ET; FS-N, FS-A, NHL.TV)
Blues: Host the Colorado Avalanche on Thursday (8 p.m. ET; FS-MW, ALT, NHL.TV)