Penguins 4, Wild 2
James Neal scored his sixth goal and Jordan Staal added a power-play tally as the Pittsburgh Penguins snapped a three-game slide with a 4-2 victory over the host Minnesota Wild on Tuesday.
Brent Johnson made 24 saves and Chris Kunitz scored for the Penguins, who were without forwards Evgeni Malkin, Sidney Crosby and Tyler Kennedy.
After a scoreless first period, Kunitz put the Penguins on top with a slap shot past Niklas Backstrom 46 seconds into the second.
Pittsburgh took advantage of its lone power play later in the second when Staal’s wrister found the net.
The Penguins killed off all five penalties Tuesday and are 22 of 23 on the penalty kill this season.
Neal ended up with the game-winner early in the third and Pascal Dupuis put it away with 7:39 left when Matt Cooke stole the puck in the Pittsburgh zone and shoveled it forward. A streaking Dupuis took it up the ice and switched to the backhand to beat Backstrom for the short-handed tally.
Guillaume Latendresse would bring it back to a two-goal deficit less than a minute later.