The post pays off: Wild takes advantage of its final chance

It's cliché, but for the Minnesota Wild on Saturday night, it was oh so true: Hockey is a game of inches.
Trailing by a goal in the final minute, Minnesota was frantically looking for the tying goal and, for the second time in three days, securing a second point in overtime.
All of the sudden, the puck squirted free to Kings defenseman Matt Roy. With the Wild cage vacant, Roy whipped the puck 106 feet down the rink in an attempt to ice the game.

Clank.
Wild goaltender Cam Talbot, on the bench for the extra attacker, turned to his teammates, attempting to will something good to happen.

"There's the break we need," he said.
Thirty-seven seconds later, with the puck back in the offensive zone, it came free to defenseman Ryan Suter, who had enough time for one final, futile shot at the goal.
He didn't miss.
With 0.3 seconds showing on the clock, Suter's shot found its mark inside the far-side post past Jonathan Quick, earning the Wild a point and forcing overtime.

"I actually have been on the other side of that, where we've hit the post and they come back and score on us," Suter said. "It's nice to get that bounce, for sure. It's a game of inches, as you saw there, they hit the post and then we barely squeak one in there at the end."
Granted new life in the extra session, the Wild capped its comeback when Marcus Johansson one-timed a Kirill Kaprizov pass through Jonathan Quick. He didn't get all of the shot, but he got enough of it, one that more went around the goaltender than past him.

"It bobbled a little bit when I shot it, I didn't get a lot of it but it turned out to be a nice little chip shot," Johansson said. "I'll take that any day."
It wasn't always pretty for the Wild, which for the second consecutive game, jumped ahead in the first period, only to fall behind 3-1 by the second intermission.
But for a second consecutive game, Minnesota rallied with two goals in the final 20 minutes and secured the bonus point in overtime.
At the end of the day, the Wild leaves Los Angeles and heads down the road to Orange County with four valuable points in the standings.
Two games into an abbreviated 56-game season -- two road games, no less -- the Wild sits atop the West Division with the Vegas Golden Knights. In what promises to be a frantic season all the way through, the Wild has managed to find a way to get four points.
"It's huge. We talked about wanting to have a good start, get off to a good start, especially this year, every point matters and every win matters," Johansson said. "It's going to be a tight race and I think that getting off to a good start, getting some confidence and showing each other that we can win and that what we're doing is right, that's huge for us I think. We'll take that."

Minnesota got the start it needed, getting a goal from Matt Dumba just 21 seconds into the contest ... getting the kind of bounce it fell victim to twice in Thursday's opener, when Dumba's centering feed bounced off a Kings defenseman and past Quick.
But once again, the Wild would surrender three-straight goals, one in the first and two in the second, as the Wild fell behind by a pair of goals through 40 minutes.

Joel Eriksson Ek made it a one-goal game again at 7:38 of the third, finishing off a rebound of a Greg Pateryn shot from the right point, one that was low off Quick's pads and bounced like a superball back into the slot, right onto Ek's tape.
"That whole line with Jordan Greenway and Marcus Foligno