Kirill Kaprizov scored twice to help the Minnesota Wild beat the Philadelphia Flyers 4-1 on Saturday afternoon in Saint Paul, Minn.
Matt Boldy and Marco Rossi also scored for Minnesota, which bounced back from a 7-1 loss to the Edmonton Oilers in their previous game. The Wild have not lost two games in a row in regulation this season.
Travis Sanheim scored the only goal for the Flyers, who lost for the first time in their last three games.
Wild goalie Marc-Andre Fleury made 20 saves on 21 shots. The 40-year-old improved to 6-1-1 on the season and earned his 567th career win, which keeps him second on the all-time list behind Martin Brodeur (691).
Flyers goalie Samuel Ersson stopped 19 of 22 shots.
Minnesota took the lead with 5:42 left in the first period on a great goal by Kaprizov. Standing to the right of the crease, Kaprizov fired a wrist shot over Ersson’s left shoulder for the goal.
Boldy made it 2-0 with 4:39 remaining in the second period. He scored on a breakaway, putting the puck in with a forehand shot for his 13th goal of the season.
The Wild went up 3-0 with 10:26 left in the third period. On a two-on-one rush, Mats Zuccarello passed the puck to Rossi, who scored with a wrist shot from the left circle for his 11th goal.
The Flyers got on the board with 5:42 to go in the third period. Sanheim scored on a one-timer for his sixth goal of the season and his first since Nov. 16.
Kaprizov finished the game with an empty-net goal at 2:11. It was his second goal of the game and his 20th of the season, marking the fifth straight year he has scored at least 20 goals.
Neither team scored on the power play. The Flyers were 0-for-3 on the man advantage, and the Wild went 0-for-1.
