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Niemi shines in relief as Stars beat Wild
Benn, Seguin, and Klingberg have scored for five of the seven Stars goals in the two games played thus far, accounting for 13 points total between them. 7, Minnesota, Niederreiter 7 (Coyle, Fontaine), 10:26. Dallas has won three of four meetings with Minnesota, including two meetings this season. Minnesota’s captain had three goals and five assists in three games….
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Jordie Benn’s shot sneaked past goalie Devan Dubnyk at 14:59 of the second period to make it 2-1, and the questionable tripping penalty against Spurgeon came just 1:33 later, leading to the tying goal.
Dallas has gone under in three of their last five games. Charlie Coyle then scored on an absolute snipe of a shot from the left circle some 3 minutes and change later.
Nino Niederreiter cut the Wild’s deficit to 4-3 midway through the third period, but the Wild failed to tie the scored after that.
“I think our sense of urgency kind of dropped and we stopped going as hard for pucks, and winning those loose-puck battles and what we were doing before to make us successful”, Coyle said. Minnesota is 17-8-6 overall, 12-3-1 at home and 14-11 with the under. The Stars took their late period momentum and 3-2 lead into the second intermission.
“He has the ability to play in every situation: up a goal, down a goal, both specialty teams”, Fletcher said. He’s a smart player that is often overshadowed and whose name gets brushed away around the league as a serious top pairing guy.
It shouldn’t be cause for panic – the Wild are 17-9-6 after 32 games – but the result removed some of the Christmas cheer from another standing-room-only crowd at the X.
The old green-and-gold of the classic Minnesota North Stars uniform will see the ice once more! To celebrate the anniversary, the Wild held a “Winter Whiteout” night, wearing their white sweaters at home and encouraging fans to wear white to Monday’s game….
Jared Spurgeon, who signed a four-year $20.75 million contract extension early Monday, scored the first goal for the Wild.
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Again, this isn’t really anything new to the Wild.it already experienced exactly what the Stars are all about, yet it chose to stop applying pressure to the Stars defensemen – who can be had – and allowed the Stars find their game. Dallas is above. 500 in Central Division games this season, which is a significant step forward from a year ago.