Game Recap: Wild 3, Golden Knights 2 (OT)

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Kirill Kaprizov scored a power-play goal with 10 seconds left in overtime to lift the Minnesota Wild to a 3-2 win against the Vegas Golden Knights at Grand Casino Arena on Sunday.

Shea Theodore was called for hooking Matt Boldy with 29 seconds to go in overtime, and the Wild scored on the 4-on-3 advantage when Kaprizov redirected a Mats Zuccarello pass into the back of the net.

“Nice pass,” Kaprizov said. “Just couple options. I don’t know. It was 30 seconds and we just tried to shoot a couple times and maybe it goes in.”

Joel Eriksson Ek and Yakov Trenin also scored for the Wild (9-7-4), who extended their point streak to five games (4-0-1). Filip Gustavsson made 23 saves.

“I thought it was a hard-fought game by both teams and physical, competitive,” Minnesota coach John Hynes said. “We pushed, they pushed. So it was not a lot of free ice. So it was nice to be able to come out on top of a game that's highly contested like that.”

Pavel Dorofeyev and Reilly Smith scored on the power play, and Carl Lindbom made 24 saves for the Golden Knights (8-4-6), who have lost five of their past six (1-2-3).

“It was a tight game,” Vegas coach Bruce Cassidy said. “Again, it comes down, the way it ended for us leaves a sour taste in your mouth but there’s part of the games we played really well, and I think they would say the same about their game. And there’s parts where we needed to find more offense; 5-on-5 we weren’t able to do it. So, we’ll look at that. … But that’s where our power play did pick us up, but it wasn’t enough.”

Eriksson Ek made 1-0 at 4:49 of the first period when Zuccarello slid the puck across the slot to a wide-open Eriksson Ek in the left circle.

Dorofeyev tied it 1-1 at 15:14 on the power play, going top shelf off an initial Gustavsson pad save on Mitch Marner.

Trenin put Minnesota ahead 2-1 at 9:05 of the second period, playing the puck off the end wall and ricocheting a shot off the inside of Lindbom’s right pad.

“I think I visualized this play before, like getting the puck behind the net, and just like wrap to the net,” Trenin said.

Smith tied the game 2-2 at 6:35 of the third period on the power play with a shot through traffic.

Vegas has lost six of seven overtime games this season.

“Obviously, we have a lot of great players that can do a lot of great things, but it hasn’t gone our way,” Marner said. “We’ll try to figure it out, hopefully turn things around when we get into whatever the next one is. Yeah, like to get better at that but we’ll figure it out.”

NOTES: Wild forward Ryan Hartman left the game during the third period with a lower-body injury. Hynes did not have an update postgame. … Kaprizov scored his 11th career overtime goal. Since Kaprizov joined the NHL in 2020-21, only Sebastian Aho (13), Leon Draisaitl (11) and Cole Caufield (11) have as many. … Boldy had the secondary assist on the overtime goal and has six points (three goals, three assists) on a four-game point streak.