Minnesota Wild goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury (29) and right wing Mats Zuccarello (36) celebrate after defeating the St. Louis Blues in Game 3. Jeff Le-USA TODAY Sports

Wild rout Blues, 5-1, take 2-1 series lead

By Mike Santa Barbara | Last updated 5/7/22

On Friday night, the Minnesota Wild took a 2-1 lead in their opening-round Stanley Cup Playoff series with St. Louis, blowing out the Blues 5-1 in Game 3.

The Wild's offensive attack jumped on the Blues early, scoring the game's first four goals en route to the Game 3 victory.

After Jordan Greenway opened the scoring, Kirill Kaprizov tallied his fourth goal of the postseason, giving Minnesota a 2-0 lead after the first period.

THIRTY NINE SECONDS

That's how long it took for us to take over Game Three Oh, and it was the franchise record for fastest goal scored in the postseason #ItsAboutWinning pic.twitter.com/6ryVjc9D8a
— Minnesota Wild (@mnwild) May 7, 2022

Mats Zuccarello scored the lone goal in the second period, and the Wild took a 3-0 lead into the second intermission.

In the third, Joel Eriksson Ek scored his third goal of the playoffs just 22 seconds into the period giving Minnesota a commanding 4-0 lead. St. Louis' Ryan O'Reilly got the Blues on the board with a power-play goal 2:17 into the period before Minnesota's Jonas Brodin closed out any hopes of a comeback with an empty-net goal 12:31 into the third.

BRODIN FINDS THE EMPTY NET AND WE ARE ALL THIS GUY AT THE END OF THIS VIDEO RN. #mnwild pic.twitter.com/mZcuwuOtwy
— Minnesota Wild (@mnwild) May 7, 2022