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Wild: St. Louis' Backes scores OT winner against home-state team

ST. LOUIS -- David Backes, the Spring Lake Park native who loves to serve as a thorn in the side of his home-state Minnesota Wild, leaped into the glass and punched it with his right hand.

Meanwhile, after Wild goalie Devan Dubnyk arrived at his team's bench, he punched the wall, two fists piercing the boards for different reason.

In the Wild's second game that reached the NHL's funky new 3-on-3 overtime, Backes sent the Wild back to St. Paul with a 3-2 overtime loss in a game Backes' family was present to see.

The Wild earned a point for reaching overtime, but fell to 7-2-2 on the young season, despite erasing an early deficit.