ST. PAUL, Minn. — Kirill Kaprizov scored the shootout winner as the Minnesota Wild defeated the Chicago Blackhawks 4-3 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
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 Chicago for the 17th time in 18 games.<\/p>\n
Yakov Trenin, Joel Eriksson Ek and Jared Spurgeon scored for Minnesota. Wallstedt stopped 29 of 32 shots.<\/p>\n
Teuvo Teravainen, Ryan Donato and Ilya Mikheyev scored for Chicago. Knight made 20 saves.<\/p>\n
The Blackhawks took a 2-0 lead in the first period on goals by Teravainen and Donato. <\/p>\n
Mikheyev made it 3-0 nearly six minutes into the second period, when he beat Wallstedt with a wrist shot.<\/p>\n
Trenin began the Minnesota comeback when he broke in alone and beat Knight with a wrist shot at 12:33 of the second.<\/p>\n
Minnesota cut the Chicago lead to 3-2 early in the third when Quinn Hughes fired a shot that hit Marcus Johansson’s skate and deflected to Erikson Ek, who got his stick down in time to tap it into the net.<\/p>\n
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 Minnesota had killed its fourth Chicago power play of the game. The Wild also killed a power play in overtime.<\/p>\n
Blackhawks: At Pittsburgh on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Wild: Host Calgary on Thursday.<\/p>\n
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