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ANAHEIM -- Mikael Granlund scored two goals and had an assist for the Minnesota Wild in a 5-1 win against the Anaheim Ducks at Honda Center on Friday.

Jason Zucker had a goal and two assists, Jonas Brodin had a goal and an assist, and Alex Stalock made 20 saves for the Wild (10-4-2), who have won nine of their past 11 games.
Pontus Aberg scored for the Ducks (7-8-3), and John Gibson made 38 saves.
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Minnesota is 4-2-0 so far on its seven-game road trip, the longest in its history.
"We sat down early in the year, when we had meetings, and we wanted to be a much better team on the road this year," Stalock said. "What comes with that is having fun on the road as a group."

MIN@ANA: Zucker sets up Granlund in front to pad lead

Zucker and Granlund scored on similar plays in the second period to give the Wild a 3-0 lead.
Granlund held the puck behind the Anaheim net and waited for a teammate to cut toward the crease. Zucker made his move, and Granlund squeezed a pass between Ducks forward Ben Street and Gibson to Zucker, who chipped the puck high to make it 2-0 at 3:19.
Zucker then set up behind the Ducks net. Anaheim didn't pressure the puck, and Zucker fed Granlund cutting to the right post for a 3-0 lead at 7:17.
"It's one of those games, you know, you kind of just found a lot of space," Granlund said.
The Ducks scored after getting their first power play at 15:38 of the second period.
Defenseman Hampus Lindholm made a diagonal pass to Aberg at the bottom of the right face-off circle. Aberg made a quick stick move before shooting into the right corner to make it 3-1 at 16:53.
Brodin scored on a wrist shot from the left circle following a turnover in the neutral zone for a 4-1 lead at 10:06 of the third period, and Granlund made it 5-1 at 16:03.
Jordan Greenway gave the Wild a 1-0 lead 1:48 into the game. Joel Eriksson Ek had three Ducks surround him along the right half-wall with two others behind the play, allowing him to backhand a pass through to Greenway skating toward the left post. Gibson tried a poke-check, but Greenway pulled the puck to his right and slid it across the goal line.
Minnesota was coming off a 3-1 win at the Los Angeles Kings on Thursday.
"I was a little worried about the first period, thinking they would come out knowing we played last night really hard, and it was the opposite," Wild coach Bruce Boudreau. "We came out and sort of took a little bit of their spirit away."
Minnesota failed to score during 6:00 of power-play time in the first period. Anaheim forward Patrick Eaves received a double minor for high-sticking defenseman Nick Seeler at 7:05, but Gibson made five saves during the power play.
The Wild outshot the Ducks 19-5 in the first.
"We didn't have the execution level all night. I don't think it was necessarily the three penalties we took in the first period," Anaheim coach Randy Carlyle said. "It was right from the opening get-go. We didn't seem to make a tape-to-tape pass, we didn't seem to be able to execute, we didn't get inside on anybody or win any of the 1-on-1 battles we've been winning our share of over the last little while. We were just a flat hockey club."

MIN@ANA: Granlund buries rebound for his second goal

They said it

"It's fun coaching any team that's winning. It's not fun coaching teams that are losing, and I've been on both ends of the thing." -- Wild coach Bruce Boudreau
"We knew it was going to be a game that we needed to play tight. We needed to earn it. That's how that team plays, and that's how they've always been. That just shows we weren't willing to do anything to win the game."-- Ducks forward Andrew Cogliano

Need to know

Granlund has 17 points (nine goals, eight assists) in the past 13 games. … The 19 shots on goal were the most by the Wild in the first period this season and tied for fifth most in their history. … Eriksson Ek played his 100th NHL game. … Minnesota is 4-0-0 in the second game of a back-to-back this season. … Ducks forward Nick Ritchie returned after missing the past six games with an upper-body injury. He had one shot on goal, five hits and a minus-2 rating in 15:08. … Aberg's five goals in 12 games are tied with Jakob Silfverberg for the Anaheim lead.

What's next

Wild: At the St. Louis Blues on Sunday (3 p.m. ET; SN1, FS-MW, FS-N, FS-WI, NHL.TV)
Ducks: Host the Nashville Predators on Monday (10 p.m. ET; SN, FS-W, FS-TN, NHL.TV)

Granlund, Zucker power Wild to 5-1 win against Ducks