Granlund Leads Wild to Win Over Montreal

MONTREAL (AP) — Mikael Granlund scored twice, Devan Dubnyk made 30 saves and the Minnesota Wild beat the Montreal Canadiens 4-1 on Saturday night.

Nino Niederreiter opened the scoring for Minnesota and Erik Haula added an empty-netter.

Mark Barberio scored for Montreal in the first period. Mike Condon stopped 18 of 21 shots.

The Wild entered in ninth place in the Western Conference and improved their chances of clawing into the postseason.

Granlund scored his first goal with 6:40 left in the first period for a 2-1 lead, and then got his second goal on a power play 11:49 into the second period.