Ducks 4, Wild 1

After Minnesota’s Nino Niederreiter tied the score off the rush in the first, Rakell got his stick on a point shot from Hampus Lindholm for a 2-1 lead at 16:01 of the first.

Wild: Friday, 10/16 at Los Angeles. He added an empty-netter with just over one minute remaining in the final frame.

According to oddsmakers from online sports book Mybookie.ag, the Wild are +105 money line underdogs versus the Ducks, who have -125 odds to win today’s game.

LOS ANGELES – Tyler Toffoli scored the go-ahead goal in the second period, and Los Angeles defeated Colorado for the sixth consecutive time.

St. Louis goalie Brian Elliott made 27 saves for his fourth win of the young season, while Ondrej Pavelec stopped 37 shots in the Winnipeg net. Anaheim called up Shea Theodore and Korbinian Holzer from San Diego of the American Hockey League after fellow defensemen Simon Despres (upper body) and Clayton Stoner (lower body) were placed on injured reserve Saturday.

Anton Khudobin led the Anaheim Ducks out of the tunnel for Sunday’s game against the Wild, Eric Stephens of the Orange County Register reports.

This is the first of two meetings between the two teams in less than a week. It was the Wild’s second straight loss on their West Coast road trip. They’re also 4-0 in their last four games in the third game of a 3-in-4 situation. All four of Minnesota’s games have been decided by one goal. The division as a whole has mainly started the year on the road, accruing a cumulative 14-6-1 mark. I saw signs of pulling out of it. I firmly believe if we get one goal, we’ll get three or four.

Nail Yakupov, on a power play, also scored for Edmonton. A possible weak spot? 900 save percentage in his three starts, at.894.