NHL roundup: Wild level series with Stars on Matt Boldy’s OT winner

Matt Boldy scored with 29 seconds left in overtime to give the Minnesota Wild a 3-2 win over the visiting Dallas Stars to level their best-of-seven Western Conference first-round series ​at 2-2 on Saturday evening in St. Paul, Minn.

had ‌a goal and an assist, Marcus Foligno also scored and Jesper Wallstedt made 43 saves for the Wild, who dominated the series opener 6-1 before losing two in a row, including Game 3 at home in double-overtime.

Jason Robertson and Miro Heiskanen ‌scored ​goals, Matt Duchene and Mikko Rantanen had two ⁠assists each, and Jake ⁠Oettinger made 40 saves for the Stars.

Minnesota won despite going 0-for-4 on the power play while Dallas was 2-for-2. Game 5 is set for Tuesday night in Dallas.

Hurricanes 4, Senators 2

Logan Stankoven’s power-play goal ​midway through the third period broke a tie for Carolina, which never trailed in defeating host Ottawa to eliminate the Senators from ⁠the playoffs.

The Hurricanes completed a four-game sweep ⁠in the first-round Eastern Conference series. Sebastian Aho scored ​two empty-net goals, and Taylor Hall had a goal and an assist ​for Carolina. Seth Jarvis had two assists and Frederik Andersen ‌made 25 saves.

Drake Batherson had a goal and an assist for Ottawa, and Dylan Cozens scored. Linus Ullmark stopped 26 shots.

Penguins 4, Flyers 2

Sidney Crosby had a goal and an assist as visiting Pittsburgh stayed ⁠alive with a victory over Philadelphia in Game 4 of their Eastern Conference first-round playoff series.

Rickard Rakell also scored a goal and set up another ⁠for Pittsburgh, which had ‌been outscored 11-4 while dropping the first three games ⁠of the series. Penguins coach Dan Muse opted ​to start ‌Arturs Silovs in net instead of Stuart Skinner, ​and Silovs ⁠responded with 28 saves in a crisp performance.

Denver Barkey and Travis Konecny scored for Philadelphia, which will have another chance to win the best-of-seven series Monday when the teams reconvene for Game 5 in Pittsburgh. Dan Vladar, playing with a right arm injury, turned aside 17 shots for the ​Flyers.

–Field Level Media