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01/03 00:28 CST Danila Yurov scores 2 goals, Quinn Hughes has 4 assists as
surging Wild beat Ducks 5-2
Danila Yurov scores 2 goals, Quinn Hughes has 4 assists as surging Wild beat
Ducks 5-2
By MIKE DiGIOVANNA
Associated Press
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) --- Danila Yurov scored twice, Quinn Hughes had four
assists and the Minnesota Wild beat the Anaheim Ducks 5-2 on Friday night.
Kirill Kaprizov, Yakov Trenin and Nico Sturm also scored for the Wild, who
earned a point for the fifth straight game (3-0-2). Filip Gustavsson stopped 26
shots.
Minnesota is 22-4-4 in its last 30 games, and 8-1-2 since acquiring Hughes, the
2024 Norris Trophy winner, in a blockbuster with Vancouver on Dec. 12.
Beckett Sennecke and Troy Terry scored for Anaheim, which has lost five
straight and nine of 11. Lukas Dostal had 29 saves, including 17 in the second
period.
Yurov put the game out of reach when he redirected Hughes' shot past Dostal for
a 4-1 lead 3:21 into the third. Sturm's shot from the left circle made it 5-1
with 4:58 left.
Dostal made eight saves during a pair of penalty kills in the first seven
minutes of the second, but he caught an unlucky break when the Wild scored on a
double-deflection to take a 2-0 lead at the 8:10 mark.
Hughes, one of eight Minnesota players named to Winter Olympic teams Friday,
sent a shot from the blue line that hit Trenin's stick and Yurov's right skate
before trickling into the net.
Anaheim grabbed some momentum when Mason McTavish's faceoff swipe from the left
circle landed on the stick of Sennecke, whose snap shot beat Gustavsson
stick-side to cut the lead to 2-1. Sennecke leads NHL rookies with 13 goals.
But Minnesota pushed it to 3-1 with 5:15 left in the second when Trenin took a
pass from Hughes in the right circle and rifled a shot past Dostal.
Minnesota took advantage of Alex Killorn's tripping penalty, needing only 9
seconds to score on the power play for a 1-0 lead 5:39 into the first. Dostal
blocked Hughes' slap shot from the point, but Kaprizov banged a shot past
Dostal after a scramble in front of the net for his 24th goal.
Up next
Ducks: At Washington on Monday night.
Wild: At Los Angeles on Saturday night.
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