Minnesota Wild took home St. Petersburg in Game 5 of the National Hockey League (NHL) first-round playoff series. Louis Blues (2:5).
Among the victories, Vladimir Tarasenko scored a hat-trick, while Ryan O’Reilly and Brandon Saad each scored. Pavel Buchnevich played 15:56 and had two assists. Ivan Barbashev spent 12:57 on the ice and had an assist. Alexey Toropchenko played 9:22.
“Minnesota” scored two goals from Kirill Kaprizov.
The score in the series was 3-2 in favor of the Blues. Game six is on May 13 in St. Louis will be played. It starts at 04:30 Moscow time.
NHL. 1/4 final. West. Fifth match.
Minnesota Wild 2-5 St. Louis Blues
Goals: 0:1 – O’Reilly (Schenn, Perunovich) – 4.53;
1:1 – Whims (Spurgeon, Fiala) – 13.15;
2:1 – Caprices (Fiala, Zuccarello) – 17.07;
2:2 – Saad (Kairu, Thomas) – 35.28;
2:3 – Tarasenko (Buchnevich, People) – 41.03;
2:4 – Tarasenko (Barbashev, People) – 42.31;
2:5 – Tarasenko (Buchnevich) – 58.27.
Before Kaprizov set a new record Number of goals club per playoff series.