Minnesota Wild vs Vancouver Canucks — Recap

📰Game Recap

The Minnesota Wild established an early lead and maintained control against the Vancouver Canucks, validating SportsFBI's pregame lean of 65% in favor of Minnesota. The Wild outshot the Canucks 34-17, securing a 4-2 victory. The win advanced Minnesota's record to 7-3-2, while Vancouver dropped to 2-9-1.

Minnesota opened the scoring in the first period when Maxim Shabanov, assisted by Kirill Kaprizov and Matt Boldy, found the net at 18:33. The Wild extended their lead in the second period with two more goals. Bobby Brink scored at 5:54, assisted by Michael McCarron, followed by Quinn Hughes' goal at 12:55, with assists from Joel Eriksson Ek and Shabanov, making it 3-0. Throughout the first 40 minutes, Minnesota's offense consistently tested Vancouver's Leevi Meriläinen, who made 30 saves on 34 shots faced.

Kirill Kaprizov further widened Minnesota's advantage to 4-0 early in the third period, scoring at 3:38 with an assist from Quinn Hughes. Vancouver mounted a response, with Max Sasson breaking the shutout at 6:24, assisted by Filip Hronek and Elias Pettersson. Brock Boeser added another goal for the Canucks at 16:53, assisted by Elias Pettersson and Jake DeBrusk, narrowing the deficit to two. Calvin Pickard of the Wild stopped 15 of 17 shots to preserve Minnesota's victory.