Minnesota Wild roll past Philadelphia Flyers in decisive win

That brings us to the end of a first period — Minnesota Wild 1, Philadelphia Flyers 1. Philadelphia Flyers edged the shot clock 13-12, while Minnesota Wild still controlled most of the territorial pressure.

Alexis Lafreniere opened the scoring for Philadelphia Flyers at 6:47, then Nikolaj Ehlers tied it for Minnesota Wild at 19:07.

Yaroslav Askarov was under siege with 12 highlighted stops.

On the power play, Philadelphia Flyers went 0-for-1.

Philadelphia Flyers owned the last five minutes and carried the momentum into the break.

That brings us to the end of a second period — Minnesota Wild 0, Philadelphia Flyers 0. Philadelphia Flyers edged the shot clock 11-4, and they controlled most of the territorial pressure.

Neither side could solve the goaltending — a grinding, scoreless frame.

Yaroslav Askarov was under siege with 11 highlighted stops.

On the power play, Minnesota Wild went 0-for-1 while Philadelphia Flyers went 0-for-2.

Philadelphia Flyers owned the last five minutes and carried the momentum into the break.

That brings us to the end of a third period — Minnesota Wild 3, Philadelphia Flyers 0. Minnesota Wild edged the shot clock 10-8, and they controlled most of the territorial pressure.

Noah Cates put Minnesota Wild in front at 3:23, Matthew Knies extended the lead for Minnesota Wild at 15:11, and Joel Eriksson Ek extended the lead for Minnesota Wild at 17:33.

Yaroslav Askarov was under siege with 8 highlighted stops.

Minnesota Wild owned the last five minutes and carried the momentum into the break.