ST. PAUL, Minn. — Birthday boy Jared Spurgeon scored two goals and Marco Rossi added the other as the Minnesota Wild rallied from a 2-0 deficit for a victory for the second time this season.
Marc-Andre Fleury made 20 saves to improve to 5-0-1 as the Wild beat the Chicago Blackhawks 3-2 at Xcel Energy Center. Advertisement The Wild are 13-0-1 in their past 14 meetings with their rival from two states over. Marcus Foligno had an empty net goal wiped off the board with 32 seconds left because of a mistake made by a linesman calling an icing.
The result was no goal but a center-ice faceoff. Kirill Kaprizov played his 300th career game and assisted on Rossi’s goal. It was his 366th career point.
The only active players with more points through 300 games include Sidney Crosby (407), Connor McDavid (394), Alex Ovechkin (384) and Evgeni Malkin (371). Only Ovechkin (204) and Auston Matthews (176) have more goals through 300 games among active skaters than Kaprizov’s 174. Filip Gustavsson , who is 10-4-3 with a 2.
06 goals-against average and .929 save percentage, will start Saturday night when the Nashville Predators visit for a rare home back-to-back for the Wild. Spurgeon celebrates the big 35 in style On the 14th anniversary of his NHL debut, Spurgeon celebrated his 35th birthday with his first two goals of the season.
Spurgeon, who has been on one of the NHL’s best shutdown defense pairs with Jonas Brodin this season, played his second game in a row alongside Declan Chishol.
