Quinn Hughes scores in Minnesota debut as Wild beat Bruins 6-2 for 4th straight win – Boston News, Weather, Sports

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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Quinn Hughes scored in his Minnesota debut and the Wild beat the Boston Bruins 6-2 on Sunday for his or her fourth straight win.

Kirill Kaprizov had two targets and an help for the Wild, who improved to 16-3-2 since Nov. 1, together with 10-0-2 at residence.

Ryan Hartman had a objective and two assists, Matt Boldy had a objective and an help and Jared Spurgeon additionally scored for Minnesota. Filip Gustavsson made 29 saves, enhancing to 6-1-1 with a 1.84 goals-against common and .931 save proportion in his previous eight begins.

Alex Steeves and Andrew Peeke scored, and Jeremy Swayman made 25 saves for Boston.

Enjoying his first recreation with the Wild after being acquired in a blockbuster trade with Vancouver on Friday, Hughes took a drop move from Hartman within the opening minute of the third interval and put a low wrist shot between Swayman’s pads to make it 4-0.

Hughes, who led all defensemen with 92 factors in 2023-24, was paired with Brock Faber on Minnesota’s high blue-line pair and quarterbacked the primary power-play unit. Faber had two assists.

Spurgeon scored his first objective in 30 video games when his wrist shot discovered its manner via site visitors for a power-play tally halfway via the primary interval for a 1-0 lead.

Halfway via the second interval, Kaprizov doubled the Wild lead because of a fortuitous carom. Boldy’s shot was deflected by a defenseman however rapidly ricocheted off the tip boards to Kaprizov who tucked the puck previous Swayman on the proper publish.

Faber cut up a pair of defenders and fed Hartman for a simple redirect lower than 4 minutes later for the Wild’s second power-play tally.

Boldy made it 5-0 earlier than Steeves scored off a scramble halfway via the third interval. Kaprizov made it 6-1 together with his twentieth of the season with 5:05 remaining, and Peeke scored within the last second of the third interval.