St. Paul, MN - ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Ryan Hartman and Marcus Foligno scored 52 seconds apart in the third period to break a tie and the Minnesota Wild scored four times in the final frame in a 6-3 win over the Detroit Red Wings on Wednesday night.
Kirill Kaprizov extended his goal-scoring streak to four games, Marcus Johansson scored twice and Matt Boldy added a goal for Minnesota, which has won four in a row and seven of eight. The Wild are 11-3-0 since John Hynes took over behind the bench and have won seven straight home games.
Filip Gustavsson made 25 saves and improved to 8-2 in his last 10 starts.
SAINT PAUL, MN - DECEMBER 27: Ryan Hartman #38 of the Minnesota Wild celebrates his goal along with his teammates Marcus Johansson #90 and Alex Goligoski #33 against James Reimer #47 of the Detroit Red Wings during the game at the Xcel Energy Center …
Patrick Kane scored for the fourth straight game and Alex DeBrincat and Daniel Sprong added goals as the Red Wings lost for the sixth time in seven games. Detroit is 2-8-1 in its last 11 games. James Reimer finished with 25 saves; he has allowed 24 goals in his last five starts.
DeBrincat scored a one-timer of a feed from Shayne Gostisbehere for a power-play goal early in the third period, tying the game at 2. Less than two minutes later, Pat Marron carried the puck down the left side and passed to a trailing Hartman, who coverted the feed in the slot for his third goal in three games. Hartman had missed the last two games with an upper-body injury.
Less than a minute later, Foligno scored while falling, tucking a rebound behind Reimer. Johansson scored his second of the game 75 seconds later to give the Wild a 5-2 lead.
A goal by Sprong got Detroit within 5-3, but Kaprizov scored on a redirect with 5:45 remaining.
Kaprizov, the NHL’s first star for the week ending Dec. 24, has a five-game point streak, with five goals and four assists.
Boldy converted a feed from Kaprizov 38 seconds into the game for a 1-0 lead.
Kane countered six minutes later, whistling a wrist shot from the left dot past Gustavsson for his fifth goal in four games, extending his points streak to five games. Kane last scored in four straight games during a six-game stretch from Nov. 7-17, 2019, with Chicago.
Johansson scored off a rebound in the slot early in the second period for a 2-1 Minnesota lead.
UP NEXT
Red Wings: Host the Nashville Predators on Friday.
Wild: At Winnipeg Jets on Saturday in the first of a weekend home-and-home.