Game 36: Wild Ending

Games against the Wild have typically not lived up to their namesake over the years but Tuesday night was a different story. Unfortunately for the Canucks they probably would have preferred a less eventful outing.

Jason Pominville scored the lone marker in the shootout to lift the Wild to a 3-2 come-from-behind win over the Canucks at the Xcel Energy Center.

The loss snapped the Canucks' season-high seven-game win streak although Vancouver still managed to pick up a point for the eighth straight game.

For two-and-a-half periods, the game went according to most typical outings involving the Wild – a low-scoring affair with few chances to speak of.

Jannik Hansen and Zach Parise traded goals in the opening frame while David Booth's second period marker gave the Canucks a lead they would carry into the third period before Charlie Coyle squared the game at 2-2 with a hard wrister coming from the right faceoff circle that just managed to squeak five-hole and past Roberto Luongo.

That goal would set off a flurry of chances – mostly for Minnesota – that would force the Canucks to hang on for dear life before managing to extend the game to a shootout where they would eventually fall.

Luongo stopped 30 of 32 shots through regulation and overtime but, despite managing to go the distance in net for the first time in four tries at the Xcel Energy Center, still saw his career record in Minnesota fall to 3-9-3.

Wild netminder Josh Harding made 29 saves on 31 shots through regulation and overtime, and held out all three Canucks' shootout attempts, for the victory.

The Canucks continue their three-game road trip on Thursday in Dallas.