{"id":560678,"date":"2026-04-27T08:09:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T08:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/560678\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T08:09:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T08:09:19","slug":"wilds-matt-boldy-on-game-4-ot-winner-i-was-happy-to-see-it-go-in-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/560678\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild&#8217;s Matt Boldy on Game 4 OT winner: &#8216;I was happy to see it go in&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Brief<\/p>\n<p>The <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nhl\/teams\/minnesota\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Minnesota Wild;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Minnesota Wild&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Wild<\/a> and <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nhl\/teams\/dallas\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Dallas Stars;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Dallas Stars&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Stars<\/a> are tied 2-2 in their best-of-seven Stanley Cup Playoff series as it heads to Game 5 in Dallas Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nhl\/players\/8290\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Matt Boldy;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Matt Boldy&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Boldy<\/a> scored the game-winner in overtime of Game 4 Saturday on a deflected shot.<\/p>\n<p>ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) &#8211; Matt Boldy dreamed of scoring a highlight-reel worthy goal to win playoff game while playing hockey in his driveway growing up.<\/p>\n<p>Boldy delivered in a huge way for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox9.com\/tag\/nhl\/wild\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Minnesota Wild;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Minnesota Wild&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Minnesota Wild<\/a> in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs Saturday night to even their series with the Dallas Stars 2-2, even if it wasn\u2019t the flashiest goal you\u2019ll ever see.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Matt Boldy scores OT winner for Wild<\/p>\n<p>The big play<\/p>\n<p>The Wild needed a Game 4 win in the worst way, wanting to avoid heading back to Dallas down 3-1 in the best-of-seven series and avoid possible elimination on the road. With 29 seconds left in overtime Saturday at Grand Casino Arena, he was in the right place at the right time.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nhl\/players\/5232\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jared Spurgeon;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Jared Spurgeon&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jared Spurgeon<\/a> took a shot that was well wide of the net, but Boldy\u2019s stick found it, and the redirection got past Jake Oettinger for the game-winner. The crowd went crazy as Boldy jumped into the glass to celebrate the winning goal with his teammates. The Wild and Stars are now tied 2-2 heading back to Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Boldy was asked postgame if the moment was what he dreamed of as a kid.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, I was probably going backhand toe-drag through the legs in the driveway. There\u2019s no pictures on the scoresheet, so I was happy to see it go in. It was a great forecheck by Ek and Kirill, and a great shot by Jared. I was lucky enough to have it hit my stick and go in,&#8221; Boldy said.<\/p>\n<p>Marcus Foligno nets game-tying goal<\/p>\n<p>Why you should care<\/p>\n<p>Affectionately called &#8220;Moose&#8221; and known mostly for his physicality, Marcus Foligno got the game-tying goal with things getting tense in the third period.<\/p>\n<p>Foligno got a rebound that was on Oettinger\u2019s shoulder, and flicked it backhand into the net at the 14:40 mark of the third period. The Wild had life. Boldy said it was the loudest he\u2019s ever heard Grand Casino Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah it\u2019s pretty cool, it\u2019s pretty cool to look around and take it in a bit. They\u2019ve been awesome, the fans have been into it, passionate. After Moose scored that one to tie it up, that\u2019s probably the loudest I\u2019ve ever heard it. We feed off that energy,&#8221; Boldy said.<\/p>\n<p>Game 5 Tuesday night<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s next<\/p>\n<p>The Wild and Stars head back to Dallas for Game 5 of their best-of-seven series Tuesday night. Puck drop is set for 7 p.m., and it\u2019s the swing game of the series. The team that wins has the 3-2 advantage, and would be one win away from advancing in the playoffs with Game 6 in St. Paul Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Wild hasn\u2019t won a playoff series since the 2014-15 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief The Minnesota Wild and Dallas Stars are tied 2-2 in their best-of-seven Stanley Cup Playoff series&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5118],"tags":[147,5,424,1339,1336,799,161,38,5280,4,1491,162],"class_list":{"0":"post-560678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-wild","8":"tag-dallas-stars","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-jake-oettinger","11":"tag-jared-spurgeon","12":"tag-marcus-foligno","13":"tag-matt-boldy","14":"tag-minnesota","15":"tag-minnesota-wild","16":"tag-minnesotawild","17":"tag-nhl","18":"tag-the-wild","19":"tag-wild"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116475655864006892","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560678","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=560678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}