The line of Joel Eriksson Ek, Marcus Foligno and Jordan Greenway went to work in the offensive zone, with Greenway nearly connecting with Foligno for a backdoor chance ... it worked out anyway, as Foligno pushed the puck back to Brodin at the point, who was just trying to get a puck to the cage, only to see it slip past Lehner and under the crossbar for an improbable lead with 1:06 remaining.
The goal was Brodin's ninth of the season, which established a new career high - a nice reward for the Wild's best shutdown defenseman that admitted he's been trying to burnish his offensive credentials this season.
"Maybe it's just the confidence I think. I'm trying to work on my offense, bring a little more offense because I know I have my defensive game," Brodin said. "So I'm trying to create more offense, and I think one big thing is, I'm trying to shoot more. Like the last shot today, it was rolling up to me and I was just trying to get it on the net. And sometimes it goes in and sometimes it doesn't go in, but I think that's the big thing, I'm just trying to put more pucks on the net this year."
Whatever it is, Brodin has scored two of the biggest goals of the season over the past couple of days. He also tied the game and forced overtime in Saturday's come-from-behind win against the Blues, firing a shot past Jordan Binnington with just under a minute left in regulation.
Fiala would win that game a few minutes later in 3-on-3.