Wild win on Koivu goal in shootout

Mikko Koivu scored the lone goal in the shootout for Minnesota, and the Wild defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning, 2-1, last night in St. Paul, Minn., to avoid losing consecutive home games for the first time this season.

Koivu used a masterful left-right move to flip the puck past the Lightning’s Andrei Vasilevskiy, who denied Jason Pominville and Zach Parise before and after Koivu. Brayden Point, who scored for Tampa Bay in regulation, Jonathan Drouin and Nikita Kucherov all went wide right with their shootout attempts against Devan Dubnyk.

Nino Niederreiter scored in regulation and Dubnyk made 26 saves for the Wild, who improved to 18-6-1 and rebounded from an overtime loss to rival Chicago two nights earlier.

Vasilevskiy stopped 37 shots for the Lightning.

Blackhawks 5, Jets 2 — Linemates Patrick Kane, Artem Anisimov and Artemi Panarin each scored and combined for seven points to help Chicago beat host Winnipeg.

Duncan Keith’s late goal was the winner, and Marian Hossa also scored.

The goaltenders were busy in the fifth and final meeting of the season between the Central Division rivals. Chicago’s Corey Crawford made 28 saves in his 22nd victory of the season, and Winnipeg’s Connor Hellebuyck stopped 31 of the 34 shots he faced.

Bryan Little and Adam Lowry scored goals for Winnipeg.

Elsewhere in the NHL — Washington forward Andre Burakovsky is expected to miss at least a month with an injured right hand. Burakovsky was hurt when he was hit by the puck while blocking a shot in the 6-3 victory over Detroit on Thursday night. . . .

Red Wings defenseman Jonathan Ericsson is expected to miss 12 weeks after fracturing his wrist in the game at Washington.