Gaudreau, Steel lead Wild past Islanders 3-1
Frederick Gaudreau, Sam Steel and Kirill Kaprizov scored in the third period to lift the Minnesota Wild to a 3-1 triumph against the New York Islanders on Thursday night.
Filip Gustavsson made 19 puts something aside for the Wild, who snapped a three-game series of failures in the finale of a two-game excursion.
Scott Mayfield scored for New York, and Ilya Sorokin wrapped up with 33 recoveries. It was the Islanders’ fourth sequential misfortune.
The Wild went in front to remain with two objectives in 93 seconds in the third.
Gaudreau tied it at 1 when he scored an under-staffed objective at 10:55. Sorokin had the option to get his glove on the puck, however not before it crossed the objective line upon video audit.
Joel Eriksson-Ek evaded Islanders forward Jean-Gabriel Pageau and helped on Gaudreau’s tenth of the time.
Steel then, at that point, gave Minnesota a 2-1 lead at 12:28 off a decent arrangement by linemate Mats Zuccarello. Kaprizov recorded the optional help and got his 50th mark of the time.
Kaprizov added an unfilled net objective at 18:48.
Gustavsson made a basic save five minutes into the third time frame, denying a one-clock from Simon Holmstrom after Minnesota defenseman Jon Merrill turned the puck over in the cautious zone.
The Wild neglected to change over six strategic maneuver valuable open doors.
Mayfield opened the scoring 16:49 into the first with his fifth objective, matching his profession best from the 2018-19 season. The swelling defenseman sent a long wrist shot past Gustavsson.
It was whenever the Islanders first had scored first since Dec. 29 against Columbus. It additionally was the 26th objective by an Islanders defenseman this season.
HELP ON THE WAY
Islanders defenseman Adam Pelech rehearsed with the group preceding the game against the Wild interestingly since supporting an undisclosed injury on Dec. 6 against St. Louis. Pelech skated all alone for the past three days. … Islanders forward Kyle Palmieri likewise is near returning. He went with the group on its new four-game outing. Palmieri left the game against Arizona on Dec. 16 with a chest area injury. He has missed 22 of the past 23 games.
UP NEXT
Wild: Host the Arizona Coyotes on Saturday.
Islanders: Host the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday.
