Boldy added an assist for three points, Kirill Kaprizov had a goal and an assist, and Mats Zuccarello had two assists for the Wild (42-22-11), who have alternated wins and losses for eight straight games. Filip Gustavsson made 29 saves for his 100th win with Minnesota.
Wild defenseman Quinn Hughes was plus-4 with one assist in his first game against his former team. The Canucks traded their captain and all time highest scoring defenseman to Minnesota on Dec. 12 after seven-plus seasons for defenseman Zeev Buium, forwards Marco Rossi and Liam Ohgren, and a first-round pick in the 2026 NHL Draft.
Tom Willander and Jake DeBrusk scored 42 seconds apart, and Nikita Tolopilo made 32 saves for the last-place Canucks (22-45-8), who were coming off an 8-6 win at the Colorado Avalanche on Wednesday that ended a six-game losing streak. Vancouver hasn’t won consecutive games since winning four in a row through Dec. 20.
Minnesota went up 1-0 at 8:32 of the first period after Joel Eriksson Ek knocked a clearing attempt out of the air inside the blue line, setting up a 2-on-1 that Boldy finished by keeping the puck and snapping it between Tolopilo’s pads from inside the bottom of the left circle. It was Boldy’s first goal in eight games.
Willander tied it 1-1 with the teams playing 4-on-4 at 16:00 after Teddy Blueger’s shot from above the left circle bounced hard off the end boards and came out to Willander on the other side before Gustavsson could get across.
DeBrusk made it 2-1 on the power play at 16:42, batting the puck out of the air behind Gustavsson after Filip Hronek hit the cross bar on a one-timer from the point.
Boldy reached 40 goals for the first time in the NHL on a breakaway 23 seconds into the second period to tie it 2-2, sending a wrist shot past the glove of Tolopilo after Buium whiffed on a cross-ice pass at the far blue line.
Kaprizov put the Wild ahead 3-2 with his 40th of the season at 6:08 after intercepting a pass from defenseman Elias Pettersson along the boards in the Canucks end. Kaprizov passed immediately across the ice to Zuccarello atop the left circle and then one-timed the quick return feed past a sprawling Tolopilo from below the right face-off dot.
Hartman made it 4-2 at 6:03 of the third period by deflecting a Zuccarello point shot past Tolopilo from the edge of the crease, and scored his second into an empty net at 18:52 for the 5-2 final.
