For the seventh game this season, the Wild were without do-everything center Joel Eriksson Ek, who missed the one-game trip to Chicago.

Mats Zuccarello scored at 3:09 of overtime to give the Minnesota Wild a 4-3 victory against the Chicago Blackhawks at United Center on Tuesday. Zuccarello won it with a wrist shot from the top of slot off Marcus Johansson’s pass from the goal line.

Gustavsson starts for Sweden, but key Wild players Wallstedt and Johansson are healthy scratches in the Olympic opener.

Marcus Johansson scored at 3:38 of overtime with the goal off its moorings and the Minnesota Wild overcame a last-second tying goal to beat the Nashville Predators 3-2 on Tuesday night.

The normal Scandinavian stoicism one would expect from a veteran like Marcus Johansson was long gone when he left the rink following an early January morning skate for the Minnesota Wild in Anaheim, Calif. There was rain coming down in Southern California ...

Johansson is back, bringing renewed offensive spark to the Wild's attack after a tough upper-body injury sidelined the forward.