{"id":371277,"date":"2025-12-23T15:36:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T15:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/371277\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T15:36:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T15:36:55","slug":"wild-defeat-oilers-5-2-for-seven-straight-victories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/371277\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild defeat Oilers 5-2 for seven straight victories"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Minnesota Wild left wing Matt Boldy shoots and scores a goal past Edmonton Oilers goaltender Calvin Pickard on Saturday.Abbie Parr\/The Associated Press<\/p>\n

Matt Boldy scored twice, Filip Gustavsson made 28 saves and the Minnesota Wild beat the Edmonton Oilers 5-2 on Saturday for their seventh straight victory.<\/p>\n

Ryan Hartman, Vladimir Tarasenko and Nico Sturm also scored, Mats Zuccarello had two assists and Minnesota set a franchise record with a 14-game home points streak, going 12-0-2 at Grand Casino Arena since Nov. 1.<\/p>\n

Gustavsson is 8-1-1 in his last 10 starts. The Wild have allowed just 11 goals during the winning streak , giving up no more than two in any game.<\/p>\n

Connor McDavid and Andrew Mangiapane scored for Edmonton, and Calvin Pickard stopped 32 shots. The Oilers had won four of five and six of eight.<\/p>\n

Leon Draisaitl had two assists to reach 50 points for the 11th straight season, tying Glenn Anderson and Mark Messier for the Oilers\u2019 record.<\/p>\n

Midway through the third period, Tarasenko scored his fourth goal in three games, poking home a puck that trickled behind Pickard to give the Wild a 4-2 lead. Sturm added an empty-netter.<\/p>\n

It was the first goal since Minnesota led 3-2 after a frenetic opening period.<\/p>\n

Boldy opneed the scoring at 3:42, racing in alone to score for the fourth straight game. He buried a feed from Quinn Hughes on a power play seven minutes later to make it 2-0.<\/p>\n

Boldy has seven goals in his past eight games and has 22 overall to tie Kirill Kaprizov for the team lead. Minnesota is the only team with two 20-plus goal scorers.<\/p>\n

Mangiapane scored on a redirect and McDavid poked in a loose puck to tie it late in the period, but Hartman finished a give-and-go with Jake Middleton with eight seconds left. McDavid has 11 goals and 12 assists in his last nine games.<\/p>\n

Up next, the Oilers will host Vegas on Sunday night while the Wild host Colorado.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Minnesota Wild left wing Matt Boldy shoots and scores a goal past Edmonton…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5125],"tags":[198,146,5300,5,4,1929,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-371277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edmonton-oilers","8":"tag-edmonton","9":"tag-edmonton-oilers","10":"tag-edmontonoilers","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-noastack","14":"tag-oilers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115769628663953341","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}