{"id":377581,"date":"2025-12-28T13:59:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T13:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/377581\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T13:59:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T13:59:14","slug":"wild-thrilled-to-open-road-trip-with-win-over-jets-winnipeg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/377581\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild thrilled to open road trip with win over Jets – Winnipeg"},"content":{"rendered":"

WINNIPEG \u2013 The Minnesota Wild snapped a two-game losing streak on Saturday by handing the Winnipeg Jets their fifth straight loss.<\/p>\n

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Matt Boldy scored his second goal of the game 39 seconds into overtime to lead the Wild to a 4-3 come-from-behind win before a sold-out crowd of 15,225 at Canada Life Centre.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s good,\u201d said Wild coach John Hynes. \u201cI mean, we knew we were coming in here losing the last two games off the break. And this is a big stretch of games for us as well as a big trip. And I give the guys a lot of credit.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought we did a really good job of sticking with it and overcoming some adversity at the end of the second period. And that\u2019s what we need. We\u2019re gonna spend a lot of time together. We\u2019ve got six more big games on the trip.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Jets had scored two quick goals \u2014 by Kyle Connor and Mark Scheifele \u2014 in the final 2:04 of the second to take a 3-2 lead into the third period.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, to start off with a good win in the fashion that it was, hopefully should set us up moving forward here on the trip,\u201d Hynes said.<\/p>\n

Mats Zuccarello scored the tying goal on the power play and goalie Jesper Wallstedt pulled with 21 seconds left in the third to force the OT. Dylan DeMelo had taken a cross-checking penalty when he took exception to Josh Morrissey being checked into the boards by Joel Eriksson Ek and no penalty was called.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThat\u2019s a terrible non-call on Josh Morrissey,\u201d said Jets coach Scott Arniel. \u201cIt should have been called. Head-first into the boards. And then, a ticky-tacky little call (on DeMelo) after that.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAny other top players in the league, elite players, get hit from behind into the boards, I\u2019m pretty sure that\u2019s a penalty.\u201d<\/p>\n

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That sent the game into overtime, where the Wild pulled out the victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, it\u2019s huge,\u201d said Boldy, who had knotted the score at 1-1 late in the first period. \u201cA long trip, to start off positive and keep that energy up after a long day and an early flight, that\u2019s huge for us. So, we got to use that to our advantage for the game (against Vegas) coming up.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Wild stuck with it after being stung by those two quick goals.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t think it was a bad game from us,\u201d Boldy said. \u201cI didn\u2019t think it was our best, but just sticking with it, taking the positives and getting back on track I think is the biggest thing.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor us, when we\u2019re playing hard and simple and letting the plays come to us rather than force them, that\u2019s what makes us good. I think, in the second there, we were forcing a little bit too much and trying to make too many plays, and (we) went out for the third and kind of simplified a bit and found a way to tie it up.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Kirill Kaprizov scored the other Minnesota goal and Quinn Hughes added three assists.<\/p>\n

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Wallstedt made 23 saves.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a hard game,\u201d he said. \u201cThey get a couple good looks and they capitalized on some of them, but I just keep reminding myself to just try to keep the team in the game, make the next save and do my best to make sure there\u2019s still a chance to win the game. Fortunately today, we could and the guys came up big.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought, overall, most of the game was a tight-fought match. Obviously, at the end of the second, we kind of made some small mistakes and they ended up capitalizing on their chances. But I thought the game overall was tight throughout and at the end there, we knew maybe we had an extra level and we put that in and I thought we created a lot and obviously capitalized at the end.\u201d<\/p>\n

Morrissey scored the other goal for the Jets, who lost yet another one-goal game.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo me, that was a strong effort, it really was a strong effort by us,\u201d Arniel said. \u201cIt\u2019s something that should have been two points. We\u2019ve got to make sure, those one-goal games, we\u2019ve got to find a way. That one had a little bit different feel to it. That had a different outcome than maybe some of the past ones have.<\/p>\n

\u201cNobody\u2019s happy about that. Nobody\u2019s happy about losing. We wanted both points. We need both points. We didn\u2019t get it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 28, 2025.<\/p>\n

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