ST. PAUL, Minn. — Kirill Kaprizov scored the shootout winner as the Minnesota Wild defeated the Chicago Blackhawks 4-3 on Tuesday night.
Kaprizov was Minnesota’s second shooter and beat Spencer Knight with a wrist shot. Wild goalie Jesper Wallstedt stopped all three shootout attempts as the Wild came back from a 3-0 deficit to beat the Hawks for the 17th time in 18 games.
Yakov Trenin, Joel Eriksson Ek and Jared Spurgeon scored for the Wild. Wallstedt stopped 29 of 32 shots.
Teuvo Teräväinen, Ryan Donato and Ilya Mikheyev scored for the Hawks. Knight made 20 saves.
The Hawks took a 2-0 lead in the first period on goals by Teräväinen and Donato.
Mikheyev made it 3-0 nearly six minutes into the second period, when he beat Wallstedt with a wrist shot.
Trenin began the Wild’s comeback when he broke in alone and beat Knight with a wrist shot at 12:33 of the second.
The Wild cut the Hawks’ lead to 3-2 early in the third when Quinn Hughes fired a shot that hit Marcus Johansson’s skate and deflected to Eriksson Ek, who got his stick down in time to tap it into the net.
Spurgeon knocked in a rebound of an Eriksson Ek shot to tie it with 2:01 to play in the third. The goal came after the Wild had killed its fourth Hawks power play of the game. The Wild also killed a power play in overtime.
Up next
Hawks: At the Pittsburgh Penguins on Thursday.
Wild: Host the Calgary Flames on Thursday.