Wild Sink Stars Thursday

The Minnesota Wild beat the Dallas Stars 3-1 Thursday night at Xcel Energy Center. The Wild are now 3-1-1 on their eight game homestand.

Ryan Suter scored a power play goal with less than a second remaining the first period to give the Wild a 1-0 lead. Erik Haula scored at 4:51 of the second period to make the score 2-0 after two periods of play.

Dallas got a goal back early in the third period, but Jared Spurgeon iced the game with a goal with just under seven minutes left.

Darcy Kuemper earned the win with a 34 save performance.

The Wild will host the Nashville Predators Saturday night. The game can be heard on AM 1240 WJON.