Kaprizov became the first player in Wild history with three career multigoal playoff games and the third Wild player to start a postseason with consecutive multipoint games, joining John Klingberg (2023) and Eric Staal, who had a record four assists in the first two games in 2020.

Kirill Kaprizov had two goals and an assist as the Minnesota Wild took advantage of turnover-prone Vegas and beat the Golden Knights 5-2, tying the first-round playoff series at a game apiece.

Matt Boldy got the Wild run started with the first goal of the contest just four seconds shy of the midway point of the first period. Marcus Foligno made it a two-goal lead 11 minutes, 35 seconds into the frame, and Mats Zuccarello had the Wild well on the way to victory when his goal with 2 minutes, 45 seconds remaining in the first made it 3-0.