Kirill Kaprizov scored a power-play goal 18 seconds into overtime to fuel the visiting Minnesota Wild to a 2-1 victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Tuesday.
Matt Boldy’s diagonal seam pass from outside the left circle to deep in the right circle found Kaprizov, who unleashed a one-timer past rookie goaltender Jacob Fowler. The goal was Kaprizov’s team-leading 17th goal of the season. He joined defenseman Quinn Hughes in extending his point streak to nine games.
Bobby Brink scored 2:53 into the third period, and Jesper Wallstedt made 27 saves for the Wild, who extended their point streak to nine games overall (7-0-2) and matched their franchise-record win total through 20 games of a season with 13, a mark also reached in 2021-22 and 2024-25. Minnesota also improved to 20-2-0 in its last 22 games against Montreal.
The goaltending duel between Wallstedt and Fowler, who made 22 saves, came on the same day the Canadiens honored goaltender Carey Price, who spent his entire 15-year career with Montreal.
Price received nearly a four-minute standing ovation from the Bell Centre crowd before the game. He was then added to the team’s Ring of Honor, one day after being inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.
Montreal captain Nick Suzuki scored to tie the game at 1-1 with 1:38 remaining in the third period.
Cole Caufield fired a shot toward the net that caused the puck to skid along the goal line. Suzuki alertly got his stick on the puck before Minnesota’s Blake Coleman inadvertently knocked it into the net.
Despite the loss, the Canadiens extended their point streak to 11 games (8-0-3).
Minnesota finally broke the scoreless tie in the third period when Montreal’s Josh Anderson was unable to cleanly glove the puck near the blue line, allowing Brink to steal it and skate away on a breakaway. Brink snapped a shot past Fowler for his second goal of the season and first since Oct. 25.
Montreal nearly opened the scoring with 7:33 remaining in the first period on what initially was ruled its first shot of the game. However, video review revealed Alex Newhook’s attempt hit the post and did not cross the goal line.
–Field Level Media
