Wild score four unanswered to beat Blues, but lose Brock Faber to injury

The Minnesota Wild rallied with four unanswered goals in a 6-4 win over the St. Louis Blues Tuesday night at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minn., but they lost defenseman Brock Faber in the process as he was ruled out of the game with an upper-body injury.

Despite losing Faber during the first period and falling into a two-goal deficit in the second, the Wild (26-11-4) rallied with four unanswered goals from the end of the second period through the third. Joel Eriksson Ek had the first 9:41 into the second.

Jake Middleton knotted the game at 4-4 just 1 minute, 16 seconds into the third period, and Matt Boldy provided the go-ahead goal just 2 minutes, 41 seconds later. 

Marcus Johansson scored an empty-netter with 36 seconds remaining. 

Minnesota struck first with Zach Bogosian's goal just 1 minute, 23 seconds into the first period. Jon Merrill made it a two-goal advantage just 49 seconds later, but after Faber's exit, things started to unravel for the Wild. Pavel Buchnevich, who got tangled up with Faber, scored the first for the Blues 13 minutes, 26 seconds into the first. 

It was the first of four unanswered for St. Louis (19-19-4), which knotted the game on Jordan Kyrou's power-play goal 1 minute, 24 seconds into the second period. Jake Neighbours gave the Blues the lead 1 minute, 27 seconds later, and Robert Thomas made it a two-goal St. Louis lead just 1 minute, 42 seconds after that. 

After giving up the four goals on 18 shots, the Wild pulled goaltender Filip Gustavsson in favor of Marc-Andre Fleury, who stopped all 15 of the shots he faced. 

Jordan Binnington made 20 saves on 25 shots. 

The Wild return to action Thursday night when they host the Colorado Avalanche for a 7 p.m. puck drop.