Tom Willander scored his first NHL goal and had an assist and fellow rookie defenseman Elias Nils Pettersson also scored for the Canucks (11-15-3), who won for the first time in five games (1-3-1) and second time in nine (2-6-1). Rookie Nikita Tolopilo made 27 saves for his second win in his third start of the season.
Vancouver was coming off a 4-1 loss against the Utah Mammoth on Friday, and played without top center Elias Pettersson, who was a late scratch with an upper-body injury.
Mats Zuccarello had a goal and assist and Jesper Wallstedt made 16 saves for the Wild (15-8-5), who have lost two in a row following a 12-game point streak (10-0-2). It was first regulation loss of the season for Minnesota’s rookie goalie (8-1-2), who had won seven in a row.
Matt Boldy put the Wild ahead 1-0 at 3:11 of the first period, converting a 2-on-1 cross-ice pass from Zuccarello, who had just finished serving an early tripping penalty to Wallstedt, with a one-timer from the right face-off dot past a stretched-out Tolopilo.
Vancouver appeared to tie it seven minutes into the second period when Keifer Sherwood caught Wallstedt sliding past his post with a backdoor pass to an open Raty off the rush, but after a video review initiated by the NHL Situation Room it was disallowed because Raty kicked the puck in with his left skate.
Willander tied it 1-1 at 9:29, taking a cross-ice rush pass from Linus Karlsson atop the right face-off circle and sending a wrist shot back over the blocker shoulder of Wallstedt.
Pettersson put the Canucks ahead 2-1 at 11:46 after Raty won an offensive zone face-off back to Willander, who passed across to Pettersson for a quick wrist shot from the left point.
Raty made it 3-1 on a 2-on-1 rush at 15:12, keeping the puck and firing a wrist shot over Wallstedt’s blocker from inside the left face-off circle.
Raty stole the puck from Wallstedt behind the net and tucked it in at 5:09 of the third period to make it 4-1 and give him his first three-point game.
Zuccarello scored a 6-on-4 power-play goal with Wallstedt pulled for an extra attacker on a screened wrist shot over Tolopilo’s glove at 17:22 for the 4-2 final.
