blackhawks 2, wild 1, ot

Philipp Kurashev’s goal at 1:48 of overtime lifted Chicago to a win over Minnesota on Sunday night, snapping a two-game slide.

Kurashev ripped a shot from left wing that sailed past Filip Gustavsson’s glove.

Petr Mrazek finished with 32 saves to help the Blackhawks end a 12-game losing streak against the Wild. Chicago hadn’t beaten Minnesota since Dec. 15, 2019.

Matt Boldy scored with 4:31 left in the third period to tie it at 1 on Minnesota’s 32nd shot of the game.

Jason Dickinson scored in the first. Mrazek made several close-in, rapid-fire stops in the third as the Wild outshot Chicago 19-4 in the period and 33-22 for the game, Gustavsson blocked 20 shots.

At 10-2-3 and 23 points, the Wild are off to their best start after 15 games.

sharks 1, devils 0

Nico Sturm scored late in the first period and Mackenzie Blackwood made 44 saves as San Jose beat New Jersey.

Sturm scored his third goal of the season when his backhand caromed off New Jersey’s Timo Meier and past Devils netminder Jake Allen with less than four minutes to play in the opening period. Carl Grundstrom and Henry Thrun assisted.

Blackwood, who played five seasons for the Devils before he was traded to the Sharks in June 2023, recorded the 11th shutout of his career in his first game as a visiting netminder at Prudential Center.

The loss ended the Devils’s three-game winning streak. New Jersey was coming off Saturday’s 4-3 comeback overtime road win against the Islanders.

ducks 4, blue jackets 2

John Gibson made 38 saves, Brett Leason and Jackson LaCombe each scored their first goals of the season and Anaheim ended a four-game losing streak with a victory over Columbus.

Gibson made his season debut after having an emergency appendectomy in September.

The Ducks got off to a fast start when Leason scored 3:13 into the game off a feed from Cutter Gauthier.

Columbus tied it late in the first period when Yegor Chinakhov scored his fourth goal of the season. Anaheim grabbed a 2-1 lead at 4:22 of the second period when LaCombe converted off a loose puck.

Leo Carlsson scored for the Ducks with 9:40 left in the game.