Joel Eriksson Ek and Brock Faber also scored, and Mats Zuccarello had two assists for Minnesota (7-1-2), which has won six of its last seven games. Filip Gustavsson made 28 saves.

“Yes, it’s a great win, but I feel like we’re not playing our (best) hockey in the first period,” Kaprizov said. “Maybe it was because it was a long trip and something like that. But I feel like we played better in the second and third periods, and Gus made some huge saves and some blocked shots and we got our goals.

Brayden Point extended his point streak to four games (three goals, three assists), and Jake Guentzel extended his point streak to three (three goals, two assists) for the Lightning (7-4-0), who had won three in a row. Andrei Vasilevskiy made 17 saves.

“In hindsight you think about it: ‘Do I think we deserve some points in this game?’ Yes, Lightning coach Jon Cooper said. “I thought we deserved points the first time we played them. They end up getting four. And you look at it, there were so many. good things that happened on our side during the match, but timing is everything. 2-2 match with five minutes to go and we lose one, it’s tough. In moments like this.. .there are no moral victories. At the end of the day, you’re going to wake up tomorrow and we didn’t get any points.

Point made it 1-0 on the power play at 19:15 of the first period. Victor Hedman’s rebound found Point in the slot, who buried it in the open net.

Eriksson Ek scored his fifth goal of the season to tie the score 1-1 47 seconds into the second period. Kaprizov beat Lightning defenseman Erik Cernak on the wing and sent a cross-ice pass to Eriksson Ek for the one-timer.

Faber gave Minnesota a 2-1 lead at 2:41 of the third period with a wrist shot from the top of the circles, but Guentzel made it 2-2 at 6:23 on the power play with a shot from five holes in the left face. off point.

“You’re not going to run every game for the whole game, are you? There’s going to be adversity,” Faber said. “There will be, like last year, injuries and things like that and nights off. And to be able to find a way to win like that, a more serious win, a very imperfect win, we’re really, really happy about that.