Pavel Buchnevich’s late winner put the Blues past the Wild.

Pavel Buchnevich scored the go-ahead goal with 3:39 left in the game, giving the St. Louis Blues a 3-1 victory over the Minnesota Wild on Sunday evening in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Logan Mailloux and Robert Thomas also attended St. St. Louis, recovering from a loss to the New Jersey Devils a day earlier. It was the Blues’ second win in their last three games.

Kirill Kaprizov scored the lone goal for Minnesota, which had its streak halted.

Blues goalie Joel Hofer stopped 22 of 23 shots in the win. He improved to 14-11-3 on the season and moved to within one win of 50 career wins.

Wild goalkeeper Filip Gustavsson stopped 21 of 23 shots.

The game remained scoreless until late in the second period when the two teams traded goals within two minutes.

Kaprizov opened the scoring on a power play with 3:51 to go in the second period. Matt Boldy moved the puck from his backhand to his forehand and passed to Kaprizov, who scored from the left side of the crease.

The sequence continued the streak of Minnesota’s two top scorers. Boldy extended his point streak to 10 games, while Kaprizov extended his point streak to seven games.

St. Louis tied the score at 1-all with 1 minute and 55 seconds left in the second half. Mailloux fired a wrist shot from the top of the right circle past Gustavsson, who was blocked by a Wild defender.

The shot was Mailou’s second goal in 45 games this season and his first since December 12.

Buchnevich put the Blues up 2-1 late in the third period. With the puck in front of him without a defender, he succeeded in scoring with a rising wrist shot from the right circle.

The Wild pulled Gustavsson for an extra skater at the last minute. Hopper withstood Minnesota’s pressure, and the Blues sealed the win when Thomas scored on an empty-net goal with 25 seconds left.

–Field level media