Aatu Raty had two goals and an assist, and the Vancouver Canucks beat the Minnesota Wild 4-2 to snap a four-game skid.

If there was any opponent that could have provided Minnesota a get-well game it was Vancouver, which entered having lost seven of its last eight (1-6-1), including Friday night at home to Utah. The Canucks were playing without their top forward in Elias Pettersson, who was sidelined due to an upper body injury.

Minnesota failed to score in eight minutes of power play time in the first period.

Nikolaj Ehlers scored 46 seconds into the second period and goalie Frederik Andersen overcame a poor start to stop the final 18 shots he faced as the Carolina Hurricanes beat the Minnesota Wild 4-3.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Noah Ostlund scored the winner in a shootout on Saturday night and the Buffalo Sabres snapped the Minnesota Wild's seven-game winning streak with a 3-2 victory. Beck Malenstyn and Josh Doan scored in regulation for the Sabres,

In a matchup that saw the Vancouver Canucks suffer a last-minute injury issue with the departure of center Elias Pettersson, it was Tom Willander who brought some positivity to the game against the Minnesota Wild by scoring his first career NHL goal. The defenceman now has a goal and seven assists in 19 games played at the NHL level.

It was a Minnesota Wild game unlike any other, and it all had to do with this call of the game. Photojournalist Nick Lunemann and Derek James take us inside the booth, where three announcers helped make NHL history while honoring a language rooted in this land.

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