Paul Cotter and Jesper Bratt scored in the shootout, and the New Jersey Devils beat the Minnesota Wild 3-2 on Monday night for their third win in four games.

Nico Hischier scored three goals for his second hat trick of the season and the New Jersey Devils beat the Minnesota Wild 5-2. Paul Cotter and Tomas Tatar also scored, Jesper Bratt had two assists, and Jacob Markstrom stopped 22 shots for the Devils.

Kirill Kaprizov and Joel Eriksson Ek have begun on-ice work toward returning to the active roster while Alexander Ovechkin's pursuit of Wayne Gretzky's all-time scoring record comes to St. Paul.

Jake Oettinger shut out his home-state team stopping 32 shots, Wyatt Johnston and Matt Duchene scored 58 seconds apart late in the second period and the Dallas Stars beat the Minnesota Wild 3-0 on Monday night.

Marco Rossi, Justin Brazeau, Mats Zuccarello and Frederick Gaudreau scored, and the Minnesota Wild beat the Buffalo Sabres 4-1. Comfortably in the Western Conference first wild-card spot, Minnesota moved within two points of third-place Colorado in the Central Division.

With 13 games to go, seven at home, the Wild are seven points up on Vancouver in the Wild Card playoff standings.

Ryan Hartman, Matt Boldy and Liam Ohgren scored 1 minute, 42 seconds apart early in the first period and the Minnesota Wild beat the Seattle Kraken 4-0 on Wednesday night.