Minnesota Get 7th of 8 With OT Win Over Flames

The Minnesota Wild are on quite a roll winning 2-1 in overtime to beat the Calgary Flames for their seventh win in the Wild's last eight starts. Calgary netminder Miikka Kiprusoff played a great game in the losing effort, stopping 44 of 46 Minnesota shots while his counterpart Niklas Backstrom faced a total of 23 from the Flames.

Neither team could get anything past either goalie until the 3rd period when Calgary took a 1-0 lead Aaron Johnson with his first of the year at 5:10 as he blasted a rebound past Backstrom. That was Johnson's first in his 11 games with the Flames since being acquired from the Chicago Blackhawks. James Sheppard tied it at 9:30 snaring a rebound off the end boards after defenseman Shane Hnidy's point shot. Sheppard tucked the puck Kiprusoff with as the Calgary netminder was turned away expecting the puck to emerge from the other side of the net.

In the extra 5 minute overtime, Martin Havlat got his 3rd of the season on a nifty cross-ice pass from defenseman Marek Zidlicky and fired a shot behind Kiprusoff, who had no chance on the play.

Calgary heads to Colorado for a Sunday game against the Avalanche while Minnesota jumps across the mountains to take on the Vancouver Canucks Saturday night.