Marc-Andre Fleury surpassed Patrick Roy for sole possession of second place in NHL history with 552 career victories as the Minnesota Wild earned a 5-0 win over the visiting New York Islanders on Monday evening in Saint Paul, Minn.
Fleury stopped all 21 shots he faced to record his first shutout of the season and the 74th of his career. With his 552nd win, he now trails only Martin Brodeur, who is No. 1 all-time with 691 victories.
Joel Eriksson Ek scored two goals to lead Minnesota, which snapped a four-game winless streak. Mats Zuccarello, Connor Dewar and Marcus Foligno added one goal apiece.
The Islanders were shut out for the third time this season. They have lost two games in a row and four of their past five contests.
Fleury stopped 10 shots in the first period, three in the second and eight in the third to improve to 8-9-3 on the season.
Islanders goaltender Ilya Sorokin turned aside 29 of 32 shots to drop to 13-10-8. He was replaced in the third period by Kenneth Appleby, who stopped six of eight shots in his season debut.
The Wild opened the scoring on the power play 2:11 into the first period. Zuccarello took a pass from Brock Faber and fired a wrist shot from the top of the left circle for his seventh goal.
Minnesota made it 2-0 at 2:18 of the second period. Dewar intercepted a pass off the boards in the Wild’s offensive zone, and he buried a wrist shot from the slot for his seventh goal.
The play marked a new career high for Dewar, who finished with six goals in his first full season in 2022-23.
Minnesota capitalized on another power-play opportunity to make it 3-0 with 6:24 to go in the second period. Kirill Kaprizov zipped a pass toward the front of the net for Eriksson Ek, who punched a shot into the net.
Eriksson Ek struck again in the third, this time on the penalty kill, to notch his second goal of the game and his 17th of the season.
Foligno capped the scoring in the final minute with his seventh goal.
–Field Level Media
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