The Minnesota Wild returned home from a four-game road trip and started this tilt with the Los Angeles Kings off rather slow. It only took 1:33 seconds for Kings forward Rasmus Kupari to score a goal to put the Kings up 1-0. To add salt to the wound, it was a shorthanded goal too. A bad pass from Kevin Fiala at the blue line went directly to Trevor Moore, who threw it out in front so the backchecking defender, Frederick Gaudreau couldn’t reach it, and Kupari could pick it up, and he took advantage.
The Kings then took advantage of some weakness on the puck by Wild defenseman Alex Goligoski after some strong forechecking.