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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Quinn Hughes scored in his Minnesota debut and the Wild beat the Boston Bruins 6-2 on Sunday for his or her fourth straight win.
Kirill Kaprizov had two targets and an help for the Wild, who improved to 16-3-2 since Nov. 1, together with 10-0-2 at residence.
Ryan Hartman had a aim and two assists, Matt Boldy had a aim and an help and Jared Spurgeon additionally scored for Minnesota. Filip Gustavsson made 29 saves, bettering to 6-1-1 with a 1.84 goals-against common and .931 save share in his previous eight begins.
Alex Steeves and Andrew Peeke scored, and Jeremy Swayman made 25 saves for Boston.
Taking part in his first sport with the Wild after being acquired in a blockbuster commerce with Vancouver on Friday, Hughes took a drop go from Hartman within the opening minute of the third interval and put a low wrist shot between Swayman’s pads to make it 4-0.
Hughes, who led all defensemen with 92 factors in 2023-24, was paired with Brock Faber on Minnesota’s high blue-line pair and quarterbacked the primary power-play unit. Faber had two assists.
Spurgeon scored his first aim in 30 video games when his wrist shot discovered its manner by way of visitors for a power-play tally halfway by way of the primary interval for a 1-0 lead.
Halfway by way of the second interval, Kaprizov doubled the Wild lead due to a fortuitous carom. Boldy’s shot was deflected by a defenseman however rapidly ricocheted off the tip boards to Kaprizov who tucked the puck previous Swayman on the proper put up.
Faber break up a pair of defenders and fed Hartman for a straightforward redirect lower than 4 minutes later for the Wild’s second power-play tally.
Boldy made it 5-0 earlier than Steeves scored off a scramble halfway by way of the third interval. Kaprizov made it 6-1 together with his twentieth of the season with 5:05 remaining, and Peeke scored within the closing second of the third interval.
Up subsequent:
Bruins: Host Utah on Tuesday.
Wild: Host Washington on Tuesday.
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