{"id":547143,"date":"2026-04-08T09:59:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T09:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/547143\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T09:59:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T09:59:39","slug":"wild-beat-kraken-5-2-for-4th-straight-win-setting-up-showdown-with-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/547143\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild beat Kraken 5-2 for 4th straight win, setting up showdown with Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vladimir Tarasenko scored the go-ahead goal in the second period, Matt Boldy had a goal and an assist, and the Minnesota Wild twice benefited from replay reviews Tuesday night in a 5-2 victory over the Seattle Kraken.<\/p>\n<p>Marcus Johansson also had a goal and an assist for the Wild, who won their fourth straight game. Marcus Foligno scored the tying goal early in the second, and Joel Eriksson Ek added an empty-net goal and two assists.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota trails Dallas by two points for second place in the Central Division and Western Conference heading into their showdown Thursday in Texas. Each team has four regular-season games remaining before they square off in a first-round playoff series, with home-ice advantage still up for grabs.<\/p>\n<p>Brandon Montour and Adam Larsson scored for Seattle in the first period.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor Related Stories:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kstp.com\/tag\/minnesota-wild\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Wild<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kstp.com\/tag\/wild\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wild<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vladimir Tarasenko scored the go-ahead goal in the second period, Matt Boldy had a goal and an assist,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5118],"tags":[5,161,38,5280,4,162],"class_list":{"0":"post-547143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-wild","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-minnesota","10":"tag-minnesota-wild","11":"tag-minnesotawild","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-wild"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116368505446186345","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547143","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=547143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}