Matt Boldy has 2 goals and assist as Wild score final 5 goals to beat Islanders 6-3

By MIKE COOK

ST. PAUL — Matt Boldy had 2 goals and an assistance and the Minnesota Wild scored the last 5 goals to bushed the New York Islanders 6-3 connected Saturday night.

Marco Rossi, Frederick Gaudreau, Yakov Trenin and Marcus Foligno besides scored for Minnesota, which has won 5 of seven. Jared Spurgeon had 2 assists and Filip Gustavsson made 30 saves.

Kyle Palmieri and Brock Nelson each had a extremity and an assist, Anders Lee besides scored, and Maxim Tsyplakov had 2 assists for the Islanders, who person mislaid 3 of 4 aft winning 7 straight. Ilya Sorokin stopped 27 shots.

Boldy completed his archetypal multigoal crippled since Nov. 7 erstwhile his centering effort astir six minutes into the 3rd play deflected disconnected Islanders defenseman Anthony DeAngelo earlier getting down Sorokin. Minnesota’s 2nd extremity besides went successful disconnected DeAngelo.

New York pulled Sorokin with 5 minutes left, but Foligno rapidly scored an empty-net goal.

TAKEAWAYS

Islanders: Palmieri scored his 4th extremity successful six games and has 10 points successful his past 12 contests aft the halfway had 1 extremity and 2 assists successful his erstwhile 12 games.

Wild: Center Joel Eriksson Ek was scratched with a lower-body wounded forcing Minnesota to play with 11 forwards and 7 defensemen. Eriksson Ek is scheduled to play for Sweden astatine the upcoming 4 Nations Face-Off tournament.

KEY MOMENT

Nelson and Lee, some Minnesota natives, gave New York a 3-1 pb successful the 2nd period, but the Wild scored 3 times successful a 5:21 span precocious successful the period. Gaudreau scored connected the powerfulness play earlier Boldy and Trenin scored 51 seconds isolated for a 4-3 Wild lead.

KEY STAT

The Wild are 30-3-2 erstwhile scoring astatine slightest 3 goals.

UP NEXT

Both teams are disconnected for the 4 Nations Face-off break. Islanders big Dallas connected Feb. 23, and Wild play astatine Detroit connected Feb. 22.