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The Minnesota Wild faced the Vancouver Canucks on Saturday night, December 6, on their most recent road trip. The Wild’s injury list got a little shorter when Danila Yurov returned, but they were still without Marco Rossi, Vinnie Hinostroza and Marcus Foligno. The Canucks were without Elias Pettersson (center), Pierre-Olivier Joseph, Filip Chytil, Nils Hoglander, Thatcher Demko and Derek Forbort.

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Jesper Wallstedt was in net for the Wild and Nikita Tolopilo for the Canucks. The game started in the Wild’s favor, but the Canucks fought back and built a strong lead in the second period. They protected their lead and took the win 4-2. This moved the Wild’s record to 15-9-5 and the Canucks to 11-15-3.

Summary of the game

The game went back and forth with chances until the Wild scored first and put themselves ahead 1-0 on a goal from Matt Boldy. Mats Zuccarello and Yakov Trenin assisted him. That was the only goal of the first period and the Wild took the lead in the second.

The Canucks thought they would score their first goal of the game early in the middle period, but it was canceled due to a kicking move. However, they answered back a few minutes later with a good goal and tied the match: 1-1. The goal was scored by Tom Willander, the first of his career, with Linus Karlsson and Jake DeBrusk assisting.

A few minutes later, the Canucks scored again on a goal from Elias Pettersson, taking their first lead of the game. Willander and Aatu Raty helped him. Raty scored later in the period to extend the lead to 3-1. The only assist went to Evander Kane. That was the last goal of the period and the Canucks took the 3-1 lead into the third period.

Raty scored his second of the game for the Canucks after Wallstedt made a mistake behind the net, making it 4-1, with no help. The Wild responded late in the third period with a goal from Zuccarello on the power play. Kirill Kaprizov and Boldy assisted him to make it 4-2. That was the last goal of the game and the Canucks won 4-2.

The Wild will have one more game on the road, and that will be against the Seattle Kraken on Monday, December 8. The Canucks will also continue their homestand on Monday against the Detroit Red Wings.