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Kirill Kaprizov, Zach Parise, Jordan Greenway
and Nico Sturm scored for Minnesota, which had lost three
consecutive games since a 1-0 overtime victory in Game 1. Sturm
clinched the victory by producing an empty-net goal with 39
seconds remaining.
Mark Stone and Alec Martinez scored for Vegas, and Marc-Andre
Fleury stopped 10 of 13 shots.
Stone gave the Golden Knights a 1-0 lead at 8:14 of the first
period on a wrist shot from the slot.
However, the Wild soon answered, taking a 3-1 lead by period's
end.
Kaprizov tied the score just 52 seconds later on a one-timer
from the right faceoff circle. He took a cross-ice pass from
Mats Zuccarello, who picked up the puck in his own end and
swerved past several defenders before carrying the puck over the
blue line.
Parise, a healthy scratch for the first three games of the
series, made it 2-1 at 11:57. He alertly played a Jonas Brodin
slap shot off the end boards and banked the puck off Fleury from
beneath the goal line.
Greenway scored at 16:34, taking a pass at center ice and
shooting while surrounded by three defenders. Fleury made the
save, but Greenway was first to the rebound and poked the puck
into the net for a 3-1 Wild lead.
The Golden Knights pulled within 3-2 on Martinez's power-play
goal at 9:43 of the second. Martinez scored on a one-timer from
the right faceoff dot after taking cross-ice pass from Alex
Pietrangelo.
Vegas outshot Minnesota 22-1 in the second period but managed
just the one goal.
--Field Level Media
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