Minnesota’s Joel Eriksson Ek scored the second of his two goals with 25.7 seconds left in regulation, and the visiting Wild beat the Dallas Stars 3-2 on Friday night. After a big battle on the end boards behind Dallas goalie Ben Bishop, Eriksson Ek collected a miss by Jonas Brodin and wrapped the puck around past Bishop for the game-winning tally. Minnesota rebounded from a 2-0 deficit to beat the Stars for the third time in four meetings and win the season series. Ryan Donato scored, Devan Dubnyk stopped 31 shots and the Wild won their third straight and sixth of their last eight. But the Wild tied it at 2 when Eriksson Ek scored his fifth at 8:25 as a puck hit his skate, bounced in the blue paint and went in, and Donato zipped in a sharp-angle marker at 12:09 for his 10th.

Source: National Post February 08, 2020 04:41 UTC