Wild Hold Off Maple Leags, overcome the absence of Kirill Kaprizov

“Just try to take time and space away as always, be close to them,” said Joel Eriksson Ek, who matched Matthews’ line that went meaningless.

Chisholm and Yakov Trenin fit nature after both were healthy scratches Sunday in the 4-2 win in Chicago. The Wild also called Ben Jones up from minors to give them an extra forward for their trip.

Leafs used their best pressure in the third, and that was when they finally solved Gustavsson: Nylander buried a redirection at 1 p.m. 8:16.

“I’m glad he will soon be on my team,” Gustavsson said, referring to the next 4 Nations Face-off when he and Nylander will represent Sweden.

But Gustavsson was airtight the rest of the way for his second equal victory after going Winless over his previous five starts, and Foligno forced a turnover in the diminishing seconds before getting ahead of Nylander to a loose puck to put the finish wild show With Foligno’s third goal in three games.

“We didn’t panic,” said Gustavsson, who became the fifth Swedish goalkeeper in the NHL story to place three consecutive 20-victory seasons. “We didn’t hunt or took any mute sanctions. We stayed with the plan and just tile out the puck and even had some o-zone time to waste some time and get some scoring chances.