The Minnesota Wild hosted the Buffalo Sabers to complete their back-to-back home game on Saturday evening, November 29. The Wild’s injury list shortened again when they brought back Vladimir Tarasenko after he missed the previous seven games. They were still without Marcus Foligno, Marco Rossi and Vinnie Hinostroza. The Sabers were without Justin Danforth, Michael Kesselring, Jiri Kulich and Josh Norris due to injuries.
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Filip Gustavsson was in net for the Wild and Colton Ellis was in net for the Sabers. The game started in the Wild’s favor, and the Sabers fought back to tie the score twice and force overtime. Overtime ended scoreless and the match went to a shootout the Sabers won 3-2. This moved the Wild to 14-7-5 and the Sabers to 10-11-4.
Summary of the game
The Wild got things going midway through the opening period with a goal from Kirill Kaprizov. Mats Zuccarello and Danila Yurov assisted him to make it 1-0. The Sabers responded a short time later with a goal from Beck Malenstyn. Peyton Krebs and Josh Dunne scored the assists to make it 1-1. A few minutes later, the Wild answered back with an unassisted goal from Matt Boldy, making it 2-1. That was the last goal of the period, and the Wild took the lead in the second.
Despite some close calls for both sides, there was no scoring in the second period and the Wild took the lead in the final period. The Sabers tied the game early in the third on a goal that Zuccarello accidentally put into his own net after he tried to catch the puck after it bounced off the glass behind the net. The goal was given to Josh Doan and the assists went to Alex Tuch and Noah Östlund, making the score 2-2.
Neither team scored before time ran out, so overtime was required, with no one scoring again, and they went to a shootout. The Sabers scored three times to the Wild’s two and won 3-2.
This… wraps up the Wild’s two-game homestand, and they now hit the road to open the month of December with four games in the Northwest. Their first game is on Tuesday, December 2 against the Edmonton Oilers. The Sabers return home to host the Winnipeg Jets on Monday, December 1.
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