ST. PAUL, Minn. \u2014 Connor Bedard scored a goal and defenseman Alex Vlasic made a game-saving stop as time ran out on Thursday night as the Chicago Blackhawks beat the Minnesota Wild 2-1 to snap the NHL\u2019s longest active point streak for one team against another.<\/p>\n
Ilya Mikheyev also scored and Spencer Knight made 28 saves for the Hawks, who were 0-18-1 in their last 19 games against the Wild. Their last win in the series was on Dec. 15, 2019.<\/p>\n
Nico Sturm scored for the Wild and Jesper Wallstedt stopped 24 of 26 shots.<\/p>\n
With Wallstedt pulled for an extra attacker, the Wild nearly tied it in the final seconds. Knight got a piece of Quinn Hughes\u2019 shot, but the puck trickled behind him in the crease. Before a Wild player could get to it, the 6-foot-6 Vlasic swept his stick into the crease and tucked the puck beneath his goalie.<\/p>\n
The Wild played without leading scorer Kirill Kaprizov, who was scratched with a lower-body injury. He\u2019s listed as day to day.<\/p>\n
The Hawks took a 1-0 lead late in the first when Andrew Mangiapane found Mikheyev at the goal mouth for an easy tap-in. Bedard doubled the lead midway through the second when he intercepted a pass at the Wild blue line, skated in alone and beat Wallstedt with a backhander for his 28th goal of the season.<\/p>\n
Sturm put the Wild on the board with a wrist shot that beat Knight between his skates with 4:13 to play in the second.<\/p>\n
The Wild were unable to score during a five-on-three power play early in the third, as Matt Boldy and Vladimir Tarasenko each hit the left post behind Knight.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Blackhawks: vs. Colorado Avalanche on Friday.
\nWild: vs. Dallas Stars on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PAUL, Minn. \u2014 Connor Bedard scored a goal and defenseman Alex Vlasic made a game-saving stop as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5118],"tags":[1569,96,508,5,8180,161,38,5280,4,488,162],"class_list":["post-512886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-minnesota-wild","tag-alex-vlasic","tag-chicago-blackhawks","tag-connor-bedard","tag-hockey","tag-ilya-mikheyev","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-wild","tag-minnesotawild","tag-nhl","tag-spencer-knight","tag-wild"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116260590664273325","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512886","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=512886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}