Berglund's Goal Lifts Blues, Wild Edge Blackhawks

By ESPN

The St. Louis Blues finally put an end to their struggles at The Honda Center.

Patrik Berglund's second goal of the game, 51 seconds into overtime, lifted the Blues to a 2-1 victory over the Anaheim Ducks on Sunday night. It was St. Louis' first win in 11 visits to Anaheim.

Carter Hutton stopped 22 shots for his second win in two nights and Berglund scored his ninth goal in the last 14 games. The Blues got their first win in Ahaheim since Oct. 17, 2009, going 0-9-1 in 10 visits since.

In the extra period, Jaden Schwartz found Berglund speeding past Ryan Getzlaf and into the slot, where he was able to chip the puck high over goalie John Gibson.

"I think he made a great decision to leave the zone and regroup and get some speed going," Berglund said. "Great play by him. I just kind of went straight towards the net."

Berglund said there was no real plan in overtime, but Blues coach Ken Hitchock said the plan was simply to ride the hot hand.

"He wouldn't have played that early (in overtime), but when the guy is playing that well you have to keep playing him," Hitchock said. "He deserved it."

Rickard Rakell scored for Anaheim and Gibson made 24 saves as the Ducks fell to 1-8 in overtime.

"There was an extra point there for us," Ducks coach Randy Carlyle said. "Tonight I thought we had a decent first, we were kind of flat in the second, and got reset and refocused in the third. It's a tough break in overtime. We missed an assignment, but we'll move on."

Wild 3, Blackhawks 2

Playing on the road for the second straight night against one of their biggest rivals, Devan Dubnyk and the Minnesota Wild rallied to another impressive victory.

Not much to complain about for Wild coach Bruce Boudreau.

"They just refuse to lose at this stage," he said.

Dubnyk made 33 saves, Jason Pominville scored in the third period and Minnesota beat the Chicago Blackhawks 3-2 on Sunday to grab sole possession of the top spot in the Western Conference.

Nino Niederreiter and Chris Stewart also scored as Minnesota earned its fourth straight win and improved to 17-1-1 since Dec. 4. The Wild also beat the Blackhawks for the eighth straight time.

"To beat this team eight times in a row is really something," said Boudreau, who was behind the bench in Anaheim when the Ducks were eliminated by the Blackhawks in the 2015 Western Conference finals. "I don't understand how you can do it. I wish I had had that knowledge a couple years ago."

Minnesota (28-9-5) jumped in front for good when Marco Scandella shot the puck behind the net and it caromed right to Pominville standing all alone on the right side of the crease. He knocked it into the open net for his sixth of the season at 5:08.

Minnesota defenseman Ryan Suter was sent off for tripping with 22.4 seconds left, but Chicago was unable to get a good look even with the 6-on-4 advantage.

"It's a big game, just point-wise," Dubnyk said. "If we want to be in first place, we're going to have to win games against these guys."

Patrick Kane scored twice on a whopping 12 shots for the Blackhawks (27-14-5), who were coming off an ugly 6-0 loss at Washington. Artem Anisimov, battling an illness, had two assists, and Corey Crawford made 29 stops.

"Frustrating. Even though it was 2-0, at 2-2 you still feel good being in a tie game going to the third at home playing a team playing on back-to-back nights," Kane said. "Tough not to get anything out of that game."

Sunday, January 15 Scoreboard

Washington 5, Philadelphia 0

Minnesota 3, Chicago 2

New Jersey 2, Vancouver 1 (OT)

St. Louis 2, Anaheim 1 (OT)

Monday, January 16 Schedule (All Times Central)

New York Islanders at Boston, noon

Dallas at Buffalo, noon

Montreal at Detroit, 2 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Los Angeles, 3 p.m.

Winnipeg at San Jose, 3 p.m.

Washington at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.

Arizona at Edmonton, 8 p.m.