Minnesota Wild at Columbus Blue Jackets, 2025-12-18

NHL · Dec 18, 2025

Minnesota Wild21-9-5

5–2

Final

Columbus Blue Jackets14-14-6

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The Wild beat the Blue Jackets 5–2 at Nationwide Arena. Z. Werenski took first star with 2 goals.

Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Wild	0	2	3	5	28
Blue Jackets	1	1	0	2	29

★ Three Stars

1Z. WerenskiCBJ · 2G 0A

2J. WallstedtMIN

3J. Eriksson EkMIN · 1G 1A

Scoring Summary

1st Period

15:20

Zach Werenski (Charlie Coyle, Cole Sillinger)

0-1

2nd Period

13:30

Ryan Hartman (Kirill Kaprizov, Brock Faber)PP

1-1

16:15

Vladimir Tarasenko (Yakov Trenin, Danila Yurov)

2-1

17:39

Zach Werenski

2-2

3rd Period

11:50

Joel Eriksson Ek (Yakov Trenin, Matt Boldy)

3-2

18:08

Kirill Kaprizov (Matt Boldy, Joel Eriksson Ek)EN

4-2

18:46

Matt Boldy (Kirill Kaprizov)EN

5-2

Boxscore

Wild5

Skater	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	SOG	HIT	BLK	TOI
Matt BoldyL	1	2	3	+2	0	3	0	2	21:25
Kirill KaprizovL	1	2	3	+1	0	2	0	0	23:44
Joel Eriksson EkC	1	1	2	+2	0	2	1	0	18:37
Yakov TreninC	0	2	2	+2	0	1	6	0	17:32
Ryan HartmanR	1	0	1	0	0	3	0	1	14:44
Vladimir TarasenkoR	1	0	1	+1	0	3	2	0	15:33
Danila YurovR	0	1	1	+1	0	1	1	1	16:12
Brock FaberD	0	1	1	0	0	4	0	1	30:57
Marcus FolignoL	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	14:32
Nico SturmC	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0	0	10:02
Quinn HughesD	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	32:02
Matt KierstedD	0	0	0	+1	0	0	0	4	17:37
Carson LambosD	0	0	0	+1	0	1	0	1	10:16
Jared SpurgeonD	0	0	0	+1	0	1	0	2	18:56
David JiricekD	0	0	0	+1	0	0	0	2	9:04
Tyler PitlickC	0	0	0	-1	2	2	2	1	8:10
Nicolas Aube-KubelR	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	10:39
Ben JonesC	0	0	0	-1	0	2	0	1	7:02

Goalie	SA	SV	GA	SV%	TOI
Jesper WallstedtStart	29	27	2	.931	60:00
Filip Gustavsson	0	0	0	-	0:00

Blue Jackets2

Skater	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	SOG	HIT	BLK	TOI
Zach WerenskiD	2	0	2	0	0	8	0	2	28:30
Charlie CoyleC	0	1	1	-1	0	0	3	1	18:28
Cole SillingerC	0	1	1	0	0	1	3	0	17:14
Egor ChinakhovR	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	15:58
Adam FantilliC	0	0	0	-1	0	3	2	0	18:00
Kent JohnsonC	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	8:44
Isac LundeströmC	0	0	0	-2	0	2	1	0	9:40
Kirill MarchenkoR	0	0	0	-1	0	3	1	1	15:50
Sean MonahanC	0	0	0	-1	0	0	1	0	16:30
Dmitri VoronkovL	0	0	0	-1	0	1	1	0	15:25
Miles WoodL	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	1	16:05
Dante FabbroD	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	14:57
Denton MateychukD	0	0	0	-1	0	2	1	1	24:20
Ivan ProvorovD	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	23:13
Damon SeversonD	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0	1	17:16
Brendan SmithD	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	10:24
Boone JennerC	0	0	0	+1	0	4	3	2	19:38
Zachary Aston-ReeseL	0	0	0	-2	2	0	3	1	8:50

Goalie	SA	SV	GA	SV%	TOI
Jet GreavesStart	26	23	3	.885	59:21
Elvis Merzlikins	0	0	0	-	0:00