ST. PAUL, Minn. — Not eight minutes after Seth Jones and Erik Gustafsson teamed up for a long-awaited goal Saturday, a miscommunication involving Jones and Gustafsson rendered the goal moot.
The defensemen, as well as Jonathan Toews, pursued a dump-in by the Wild with just over three minutes to play, but not one of them got to the puck first. Two quick passes later, a wide-open Ryan Hartman buried a backdoor shot to restore the Wild’s lead in an eventual 3-1 victory over the Blackhawks.
