Jason Pominville scored two third-period goals, Devan Dubnyk made 24 saves, and the Minnesota Wild rallied for a 2-1 win over the Washington Capitals on Thursday night.
Pominville tied the game with his 14th goal of the season off a scramble in front of the net at 9:19 of the period, then blasted a high shot past Braden Holtby from the left circle with 5:32 left after a Washington turnover in the neutral zone.
Holtby made 28 saves for the Capitals (35-21-10), who were without scoring leader Alex Ovechkin, who is day-to-day with a lower-body injury.
Zach Parise had two assists for Minnesota (35-22-7), which has won four consecutive games and 15 of 18.
Curtis Glencross scored a power play goal 2:51 into the game for the Capitals, his 10th of the season and first since coming to Washington from Calgary in a trade on Sunday.
The Wild have allowed just 12 goals in their past eight games.
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Dubnyk has started a franchise-record 22 consecutive games with the Wild. He is 17-3-1 with a 1.62 goals-against average in those games.
Washington took an early lead, getting a power-play goal just 16 seconds after Thomas Vanek was sent off for high-sticking at 2:35 of the first period.
Glencross took a pass from Evgeny Kuznetsov and skated in along the right boards. He fired a shot from a tough angle and beat Dubnyk over the goalie’s shoulder.
It was only the second goal allowed by Minnesota in its past 49 times short-handed.
The Capitals nearly took a two-goal lead when Andre Burakovsky put a cross-ice pass on Marcus Johansson’s stick on a rush late in the second period, but Johansson’s shot hit the post.
In the opening minutes of the third, Johansson’s slap shot clanged off the crossbar.
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Minnesota tied it after Holtby made a sliding save on Pominville, who dropped his stick. He was able to regain it as play continued and then poked the puck past Holtby during a scramble.
Scratched after missing the morning skate and pre-game warmup, Ovechkin had scored two goals in each of Washington’s past two games. He leads the league with 43 goals.
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