ST. LOUIS (AP) — Kirill Kaprizov scored two goals in the third period, and Jonas Brodin And Ryan Hartman also scored to help the Minnesota Wild beat the St. Louis Blues 4-2 Tuesday night.

Filip Gustavsson made 22 saves for the Wild who improved to 12-3-3 this season.

Scott Perunovich And Jake Neighbors marked, and Jordan Binnington made 24 saves for St. Louis, which saw Robert Thomas returns to the lineup after missing 12 games with a broken right ankle.

Brodin scored his second goal of the season with 6:16 left in the third period to give the Wild a 3-2 lead, and Kaprizov added an empty-net goal for his second of the game and 13th of the season with 1:23 left. achieve victory.

Neighbors scored their team-high sixth goal of the season on a power play with 9:23 left in the third period to tie the score at 2-all.

Kaprizov deflected a shot from Jake Middleton in front of Binnington 6:07 into the third period to give Minnesota a 2-1 lead.

Takeaways

Wild: Minnesota continued to dominate away, improving to a league-best 8-1-2 on the road.

Blues: As Thomas returned to the lineup, the lack of depth continued to show on defense as St. Louis played without defenders. Nick Leddy, Philippe Broberg And Pierre-Olivier Joseph.

Key moment

With just over three minutes left in the third period, referees Kelly Sutherland and Corey Syvret missed an apparently high stick penalty on Jared Spurgeon that would have sent St. Louis to a late power play.

Key statistic

Kaprizov has 12 points (six goals, six assists) while recording at least one point in each of his last six games.

To be continued

The Wild visit Edmonton while the Blues host San Jose on Thursday night.

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