BOSTON — Monday night in New York, the Minnesota Wild blew third-period leads of 3-0 and 4-2 and lost to the Rangers.
Tuesday night, the Wild turned that around, rallying from a 3-1 third-period deficit to stun the Boston Bruins, 4-3.
The Wild got goals from left winger Zach Parise, right winger Justin Fontaine and defenseman Marco Scorabella — Scorabella scored his second goal of the season from the left point with 5:53 left.
The win, raising the Wild’s all-time record against Boston to 12-2-1, raised their record to 5-3.
The loss dropped the Bruins to 5-6-0.
Rookie Seth Griffith, playing in his seventh NHL game, scored two goals and added an assist to lead the Bruins.
Griffith converted nifty feeds from centers David Krejci and Gregory Campbell into his second and third NHL goals. He then assisted on Milan Lucic’s power-play goal, Lucic also directing one home against goaltender Niklas Backstrom, who is 5-0-1 lifetime against the Bruins.
Right winger Nino Niederreiter scored his second goal of the season, beating Tuukka Rask for the game’s first goal.
A very-sharp Rask, under siege in an 18-shot third period, made 38 saves, while Backstrom stopped 25 shots.
Minnesota went 0-for-2 on the power play and is 0-for-26 on the season.
The Wild, who had allowed six goals in the first 20 periods before the third in New York Monday, took a 1-0 a lead at 4:51 of the first period. Defenseman Matt Bartkowski coughed the puck up to left winger Tomas Vanek, and the long-time Bruins nemesis set Niederreiter up alone in front. It was Vanek’s 63rd point in 56 career games against Boston.
Griffith took over from there.
Lucic, playing a robust physical game, threw a heavy hit before the first goal and had the second assist on the second one before scoring the third. He has six points in the last four games.
Krejci extended his points streak to seven straight games, with three goals and six assists during the streak.
The last 51-plus minutes were played the old-fashioned way, with one referee and two linesmen. Referee Dave Lewis left after getting hit in the face with a puck — supervisor Bill McCreary saying Lewis had fractured his lower jaw and suffered other facial injuries that sent him to a local hospital.
NOTES: The Bruins celebrated Hockey Fights Cancer, wearing special warmup jerseys that will be auctioned off for the cause. … C Erik Haula (head) and D Jonas Brodin (general soreness) were both out for the Wild after taking game-misconduct hits from Chris Kreider and John Moore of the New York Rangers on Monday. Moore is facing a suspension for his elbow to Haula’s head. … D Justin Falk and C Kyle Brodziak dressed for the injured players … LW Zach Parise took 10 stitches to his face for an inadvertent stick hit in the Monday game. … The Bruins visit the Buffalo Sabres for the second time this season Thursday night and then have a four-game homestand. … The Wild host the San Jose Sharks the same night. … After giving up six goals in their first six periods, the Wild allowed five goals in 13:57 in the third period in New York on Monday night.
Jets 4, Islanders 3
UNIONDALE, N.Y. — Left wing Andrew Ladd scored a pair of goals to lift the Winnipeg Jets to a 4-3 win over the New York Islanders at Nassau Coliseum Tuesday night.
The Jets captain scored his second goal of the game at 3:31 of the third period, beating Islanders right wing Kyle Okposo to a rebound of a saved shot by center Bryan Little to give the Jets a 4-3 lead.
The Jets (4-5-0) have back-to-back wins and victories in three of their last four games, while the Islanders (6-3-0) lost for the second time on home ice.
Center Brock Nelson stuffed in a rebound to give the Islanders a 1-0 lead at 1:16 of the first period.
With right winger Blake Wheeler in the box for a hooking minor, Nelson needed just 14 seconds to score the power-play goal, knocking in the rebound of a slap shot by defenseman Johnny Boychuk for his team-leading sixth goal of the year. Right winger Kyle Okposo also picked up an assist and extended his point streak to four games.
The Jets entered the game 28th in the NHL on the power play, but scored twice on the same man advantage after Islanders left winger Nikolay Kulemin received a boarding major and a game misconduct 24 seconds into the second period.
Kulemin hit defenseman Mark Stuart, who crashed into the boards while attempting to dump the puck into the offensive zone. Stuart was shaken up, but returned later in the second.
Left winger Andrew Ladd tied the score for the Jets at 1:14 and defenseman Paul Postma followed with his first goal of the season on the same power play to put Winnipeg in front at 4:06 of the second.
Defenseman Jacob Trouba gave the Jets a 3-1 lead at 11:42 of the second, beating Islanders goaltender Jaroslav Halak with a wrist shot from the top of the circle for his first goal of the year.
Center John Tavares cut the Islanders deficit to 3-2 with his fourth goal of the year, stuffing in the rebound of a saved Nelson shot on the power play at 14:28 of the second. Boychuk also picked up an assist, his second of the game.
Center Mikhail Grabovski tied the score at 3 with his third goal of the season on a great individual effort 1:24 later.