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ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Zach Parise scored twice and the Minnesota Wild overcame a slow start with five unanswered goals to beat the Calgary Flames 5-1 at Xcel Energy Center on Tuesday night.
Josh Harding improved to 8-2-1 this season by stopping 24 shots for Minnesota, which has won five of its past six games.
The Flames came out firing. Calgary took the first five shots on goal of the game and opened the scoring 5:24 into the game when Jiri Hudler took a nifty backhand pass from Lance Bouma and beat Harding with a snap shot into an open net for his sixth of the season.
The Wild finally got its first shot on goal and took control of the game from there. Mikko Koivu flipped a backhander over the blocker of Flames goaltender Reto Berra off a Parise rebound for his second of the season at 9:07.
Calgary went almost 10 minutes without a shot on Wild goaltender Josh Harding after their goal and finished with eight in the period.
The Wild grabbed the lead for good early in the second period thanks to a dominant effort on the power play. Minnesota kept the puck in the offensive zone for more than a minute before Parise scored his seventh goal of the season at 6:28. Koivu passed to Ryan Suter at the right circle, and Suter set up Parise in front for a one-timer. Berra stopped the initial shot, but Parise slammed home the rebound.
For Koivu, it was his first multi-point game of the season and the 94th of his career - second-best in franchise history. The goal was Parise's fifth with the man-advantage this season, third-best in the NHL.
The Wild broke it open in the third period, scoring three times in a period for the first time this season.
Justin Fontaine made it 3-1 at 8:05, skating from behind the net to the hashes in front and banking his fifth of the season off a defenseman in front. Fontaine's five goals are third among all rookies
Zenon Konopka buried a 2-on-1 wrist shot short-side past Berra 33 seconds later for his first career point with the Wild. Tuesday's game was his 53rd with the team.
The Parise-Koivu-Suter combo struck again at 13:14 with a highlight reel goal that saw Koivu throw a no-look pass to Parise, who roofed his eighth of the season past a sprawling Berra.
The three-point effort was the 27th of Parise's career and 21st for Koivu.
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