The Wild played a patient, mostly monotonous road game to find itself on the winning end of a 3-1 score. Kevin Shattenkirk scored for the Blues, but the Wild answered back with goals from Nino Niederreiter, Erik Haula, and Thomas Vanek.
Both teams skated to a scoreless tie in the first period, with each team tallying 10 shots apiece. With the Wild's Zach Parise and the Blues' Vadimir Tarasenko out of the line-up, both teams scratched and clawed their ways through a locked down neutral zone. There just wasn't much room to get much of anything going. Devan Dubnyk was challenged with the tougher shots faced, but Jake Allen in net for the Blues was very good too.