Wyatt Johnston scored the game-winning goal in double overtime for the Dallas Stars.
Recap & Highlights
In what became a physical and fast-paced back-and-forth game, the first goal of the game was off a Dallas power play.
Following a Jonas Brodin tripping, Stars forward Mikko Rantanen scored 20 seconds into the PP to make it a 1-0 game.
Dallas would get a second chance on a power play eight minutes later following a Nick Foligno holding minor. They'd fail to capitalize, but would still manage to score two minutes later.
Jason Robertson scored his third goal of the playoffs to give Dallas a 2-0 lead with the assist from Matt Duchene, his second of the game and third of the playoffs.
But the Wild wouldn't go down without clawing their way back from the two-goal deficit.
In their first power play of the game, Minnesota's Marcus Johansson scored his first goal of the playoffs to slash the deficit in half, 2-1, before heading into the lockers for the first intermission.
Both teams would finish the first period with exactly nine shots on goal each.
Into the second, it would take exactly five minutes for the Wild to battle back and tie things up.
Joel Eriksson Ek scored his third goal of the playoffs to make it 2-2 with a pair of beautiful assists from Matthew Boldy and Quinn Hughes.
Hughes' three-game point streak is the longest ever by a Wild defenseman to start the first round of the playoffs, and the team just traded for him this season.
Eriksson Ek found himself in a wild carousel of penalties this game. He would be on the rough end of a Robertson high-sticking to end the first. Then, after his goal, Jamie Benn would get him with a hooking.
It wouldn't be until Esa Lindell would get called for roughing against him after Eriksson Ek slashed Dallas goaltender Jake Oettinger.
Ryan Hartman would then commit back-to-back penalties one right after the other, then Boldy would commit one as well, which left Dallas on the power play for the third, fourth, and fifth times of the game, converting on none of them.
Then, immediately after that fifth power play ended for Dallas, the Wild would make it 3-2 with Michael McCarron's first goal of the playoffs.
Entering the third, the Wild failed on two power play opportunities to extend the lead, and it came back to bite them.
Duchene scored his second goal of the playoffs off a patient assist from Rantanen to tie things up 3-3, eventually being the one who sent it to overtime.