Wild snap Kings’ 8-game home winning streak

Wild snap Kings’ 8-game home winning streak

Kirill Kaprizov had a goal and an assist as the Minnesota Wild ended Los Angeles' eight-game home winning streak by beating the Kings 3-1 on Monday night.Matt Boldy and Ryan Hartman also scored, Marc

Kirill Kaprizov had a goal and an assist as the Minnesota Wild ended Los Angeles’ eight-game home winning streak by beating the Kings 3-1 on Monday night.Matt Boldy and Ryan Hartman also scored, Marco Rossi had two assists and Filip Gustavsson made 23 saves for Minnesota (39-32-10, 88 points), which was outscored by a combined 13-3 in its previous two meetings with Los Angeles this season.Blake Lizotte scored and Cam Talbot had 26 saves and an assist for the Kings (43-27-11, 97 points), who remain one point ahead of the Vegas Golden Knights for third place in the Pacific Division.Los Angeles has one game left, on Thursday against the visiting Chicago Blackhawks, while Vegas has two games to go.The Kings were trying to win nine straight at home for the first time since a their franchise-record, 12-game run at home in 1992-93.Minnesota scored a power-play goal for the seventh straight game to take a 1-0 lead at 14:14 of the first period.Boldy received a lateral pass from Rossi as he crossed the Los Angeles blue line with speed. He cut between defensemen Vladislav Gavrikov and Matt Roy before sliding the puck between Talbot’s pads for his 29th goal of the season.After the Wild killed their second penalty of the first period, Alex Goligoski nearly scored coming out of the box.

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