NHL Highlights | Wild vs. Blue Jackets – December 18, 2025

NHL Highlights | Wild vs. Blue Jackets – December 18, 2025

is quite a matchup and as Boon Jenner said in the preg what a challenge for the Jackets against this wild team. >> Yeah, this team is one of the top teams in the National Hockey League right now in the Minnesota Wild and the Blue Jackets are up for this test and we’ll see early in this one. >> He will play the puck lifted out. He’s having a hard time getting to the bench. Starting in now will be Capri off. He fires stopped by Greavves and hopefully Zack Warinski is okay. Back into the play and rushing off ice is Quinn Hughes. Hughes cuts in on a dropper. This is Ryan Hartman. Hartman with a hard pass. Favor a drive and a glove save by Jet Greens. >> Minor penalty for high sinking to Nick Obel. And it is Warenski over to Marenko on the touch pass. Winsky fires. Wad makes the save from Travis. A lot of bodies in front of him. Worked across to Marenko. Open was Warki and now hits him with the pass. Worky to Carell Marenko. Inches into the circle. He shoots. One off by Walstead and the Wild find a rebound and clear it out of there. Dozen seconds left in the chance. First of the game return pass. Damon Severson fires and Wstead with the stop up on his skates. Take away from Cole Cinger trying to shuffle it back to Prov who pinched and out come the Wild on the rush. It’s Ben Jones. Drop pass Sam Hampton. Tyre makes the save on Pitlick. Second line was really good. You >> see Prop comes down the wall. Smart play there to poke it away from him and then Jones gets the puck back and Jet Greavves just stays right with him the whole way. Look at Jet’s focus there. Used to Baldi on side apparently Baldi to Favor to the forehand. He looks and shoots and Gre has another one. Good opportunity playing on a second line with Jenner and Monahan. Marcus Felino to center ice. Saucers one across. There’s a long wrist shot losing in six games to the Vegas Golden Knights. Going to go on a playoff run that has eluded them. A London strip in. Fires a shot. The save made by Walad. No rebound. Crashing the net was Kent Johnson. Gustoson. And then this year coming to camp and knowing and being refreshed and having a very good summer. Boy, he’s really exploded on the scene for the Minnesota Wild. Agorinaov throws it off of Boon Jenner trying to recover it. He can’t. It’ll be punched to center ice. It’s a two-on-one now. Twoon two for Minnesota. Ryan Hard closing. Firing fall off by Greavves. Nice move by Trenan, but that shot got disrupted. Tipp back to the line. Pier Stab letting it go. That was tipped and stopped by Greavves. Somehow one of six 20 goal scorers so far in the NHL. They are still wheeling and dealing here. And now good defensive play by Miles Wood taking off to take a favor. Rushing up ice. Here come the Jackets with Coyle. Point on the back end of War Lensky scores. Zack Lorinski. What a play. Off the rush. One- nothing Jackets. The Wild get crossed up and Wood makes his play. And as Cylinger gives it over to Coyle, Warensky arrives on the scene and opens up and he just instantly points at Coyle because that play put it right on the platter for Zack Warky. No chance for Walstead zone, but that’s something that has to be tightened up here as this game goes on. Jackets better faceoff team in period number one. 70% to slow it down and wait for Zack to come through like a slingshot and get that chance in this offensive zone. Face off on goal STEP REBOUND COIL BACK IN FRONT. MISSED BY Cylinger going back to the bench. Rock Faber flying in. Stops on a dime. Taps it to Baldi. Baldi to Faber trying to go east west Faber. Favor back to the circle right in front to Hartman. They score. Power play goal. Ryan Hartman ties the game up for the Wild. >> 97 on the right side of our screen here. He’s going to miss that puck, but then he just flings it towards the net. So, he misses it, but in the all in one motion, he takes a look and it goes underneath the stick of Matechuk and right on Hartman. Harman doesn’t have to do much except stay strong on that lower hand and you see no chance for Greavves trying to make the play and a nice play by Tyler Pitlick to break up the pass going the other direction. Jones in on the backand save made by Greavves. Not a whole lot of NHL experience between the two. Severson trying to dodge a check passing to come out of the zone. Now it’s flipped forward. Oddman break here for the Wild. Drop back. Here’s Terasenko. He shoots and scores. Ends up being a threeon two and Vladimir Terraasenko has made it 2-1 Minnesota in the offensive zone. It’s a fourth line, you know, and here Severson tries to make a move and then maybe a little too much to Londrom who’s not ready for that pass that creates this oddman rush. And boy, what a talented play as this line gets up the ice for the Minnesota Wild. Then Terasenko with the goalender moving goes back against the grain. You know Jeff Gre pumps across to get trying to post up there now with the puck is Marenko. Marenko fighting his way through but he bumped enough by Hughes. Moransky with the takeaway. Moransky skates in. He shoots and scores. Another one for Wretzky. WE’RE TIED UP AT TWO. WELL, Zack Morensky just knows where the play is going to go and then he takes over. He has been an absolute dominant player here. >> Every shift he’s on the ice, but now the Wild come out and get the lead and Zach Winsky has been a man possessed since then. He’s tied it up. >> He’s got more Zack Warinski for the Blue Jackets. A man on a mission. Back-to-back multi-goal games for Zack Warinski. Vladimir Terasenko cutting on in. GOOD PASS. EURO OF A CHANCE SAVE. He’s double shifting here with two lines and Hughes is shifting between stopped by Walstead doesn’t agree as the Blue Jackets a lot of momentum on this shift but there was the best chance in the last few minutes. Pass is way out of the reach of Hughes. He got it now but outside the zone and Quinn Hughes is twisting and turning and he’ll build some momentum. He’s into the jacket zone. Hughes stops Baldi right there. He shoots and a great block by Dante Fabro. Baldi behind the net. Tren inside of the cage. Erikson a CHANCE IN TIGHT AND THEY SCORE. Mad scramble around the net. The Wild have taken a 3-2 lead. Joel Erikson Eker with the trenion line. Then you change up and go with the Baldi line with Hughes. And then the pressure is just mounting here as the Blue Jackets look back to try to get a part of a change. And you can see Fabro and Prover. They’re tired. Not sure if he pushed the pad there or not. We’ll take a look at this. But they’re just trying to put pucks towards the net. And there’s the one initial and then he gets a stick on it. Looks like two sticks in there. There he pushes the pad. Ricochet to Chino. Warren gallops through center for Columbus. Zack Morenski pass to Monahan. HOLD SOON. STOPPED BY WALSTEAD. PUCK JUMPS forth wide. >> Throw this puck through. Mate wanted to drop it off. Gets it back in the corner. Jammed in behind now. Marenko to Ward. Matechuck. Extra attackers on for Columbus. Two minutes to go. Third period. They’re trying to tie up the game against the Wild. Marenko to the front. That’s punched away. Erikson E over to Baldi. Baldi snaps it to Capri off and he scores into the empty net. Oh, Erikson bounced him a little too hard. >> Make a play to the middle of the ice. It’s broking broken up neatly and two goal lead here for the Wild. Confident team and this is a team with seven regulars out of the lineup. Well, you can see they really lean on their top. The Blue Jackets want to get him on one of those themselves here. >> That is empty. Matt Baldi looking toward that empty net. He’s got Marenko to beat. He will do it. And Matt Baldi has himself an empty net goal to make it 52. >> Baldi’s 20th of the year. >> Power forward in a lot of ways. Seems to always be underneath the puck in the right way. And here he’s got a forward back and Marenko. Oh, just an icing on this night for Zack who took two pucks and ended up down the runway. Scored two goals, but at the end >> the Wild get it done.

Both Kirill Kaprizov and Matt Boldy picked up a goal and two assists, while Joel Eriksson Ek and Yakov Trenin each notched two points of their own, as the Minnesota Wild earned a 5-2 win over the Columbus Blue Jackets.
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