Both the Minnesota Wild and Vegas Golden Knights were in the second half of back-to-backs when they met in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Sunday evening, November 16. It was the first game of the season and both teams were coming off wins the night before. The Wild defeated the Anaheim Ducks 2-0 and the Golden Knights defeated the St. Louis Blues 4-1.
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In terms of injuries, the Wild’s Nico Sturm, Zach Bogosian, Marco Rossi and Vladimir Tarasenko were all still out. The Golden Knights were without Alex Pietrangelo, Adin Hill, Mark Stone and William Karlsson. Filip Gustavsson was in net for the Wild while Carl Lindbom was in net for the Golden Knights. The game started with the Wild taking the lead, only for the Golden Knights to fight back and force overtime. De Wilde came out with the 3-2 victory thanks to a power play goal. This moved the Wild’s record to 9-7-4 and the Golden Knights to 8-4-6.
Summary of the game
The Wild got on the board first early in the opening period with a goal from Joel Eriksson Ek to make it 1-0. He was assisted by Mats Zuccarello and Marcus Johansson. The Golden Knights answered back late in the period with a goal on Pavel Dorofeyev’s power play. He was assisted by Mitch Marner and Tomas Hertl to make it 1-1. That was the last goal of the period and they tied the score in the second.
The Wild also got the jump on first in the second with a goal from Yakov Trenin, his first of the season. He was assisted by Danila Yurov and Marcus Foligno to make it 2–1. That was the only goal of the period and the Wild took the lead in the third period.
The Golden Knights scored the first goal of the third period, their second power play goal of the game, to make it 2-2. It was scored by Reilly Smith and he was assisted by Shea Theodore and Ivan Barbashev. That was the only goal of the third and overtime was needed to finish the game.
The Golden Knights held control for most of the overtime until a holding penalty sent them into the penalty box with less than 30 seconds left. The Wild scored their only power play goal of the game and won 3-2. The goal was scored by Kirill Kaprizov and he was assisted by Zuccarello and Matt Boldy.
The Wild have one game remaining in this homestand on Wednesday evening, November 19th against the Carolina Hurricanes. The Golden Knights return home to host the New York Rangers on Tuesday, November 18.
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