Kaprizov’s OT winner extends Wild points streak to 9 games

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 the team-leading 17th of the season for Kaprizov, who joined defenseman Quinn Hughes in extending their respective point streaks to nine games. Bobby Brink scored 2:53 into the third period and Jesper Wallstedt made 27 saves for the Wild, who boosted their point streak to nine games overall (7-0-2) and matched their highest win total (13) through 20 games of a season in franchise history (13 in both 2021-22 and 2024-25). Minnesota also improved to 20-2-0 in their last 22 games versus Montreal. The sterling goaltending duel between Wallstedt and Fowler (22 saves) came on the same day that the Canadiens honored netminder Carey Price, who s