NHL Capsules: Wild score three in 59-second span, beat Stars
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — For six weeks, little had gone right for the Minnesota Wild. Games were lost. Goals weren't scored. And coach Mike Yeo used the word fragile more than once to describe his team.
Saturday night, however, things were different after a 5-2 victory over Dallas.
Scoring three goals in a 59-second span certainly improves the mood of a hockey team. Instead of heads hanging, there was laughing, shouting and even a shaving cream pie in the face of Chad Rau, the Wild rookie who scored the winner in his NHL debut.
"That was really big," Minnesota's Matt Cullen said. "You look at where these two teams are in the standings and we have two huge games going into the All-Star break, so it was really big for us to kind of turn things."
And it took less than a minute for things to turn around.
The Wild (23-18-7), 3-11-4 over the past 18 games, trailed 2-1 when Cal Clutterbuck picked up a loose puck in the Dallas zone and flipped it over a sprawling Kari Lehtonen to tie it. Fourteen seconds later, Rau took a shot from the left side of the crease that went off the stick of Dallas' Brenden Morrow and into the net.
