Fleury set the tone early with his best save of the season, a glove snare that robbed the Flyers’ Travis Konecny of a near empty-net goal.
“I was a little late getting across, so I got a little lucky,” said Fleury, who improved to 6-1-1 in his 1,003rd start, tying Patrick Roy for third in NHL history. “But I’ll take it.”
Later in the first period, Kaprizov made his own dazzling play, wiring in a shot off Philadelphia goalie Samuel Ersson’s mask from near the goal line at 14 minutes, 18 seconds.
“He’s probably doing that 30 to 40 minutes after practice, then he gets in a game and does it,” Hynes said. “So, it’s the Catch-22, right? ‘Kirill, can you get off so you can be rested for the game?’ But then he does this.”
Boldy doubled the Wild’s lead with 4:39 left in the second period when he slid a Faber clear under the right pad of Ersson (19 saves) to become the second-fastest player in Wild history to reach 200 points — getting there in 233 games to trail only Kaprizov’s 169.
This was Boldy’s sixth game-winner, tied for first in the NHL, and although he took his sixth penalty over the past four games, the penalty kill went 3-for-3 while the power play blanked on its lone look.