One thousand games into his NHL career, Marcus Johansson is playing some of his best hockey.

The Wild wing started his 1,000th NHL game with a career-best points streak of eight games and extended it to nine in Minnesota’s 2-0 victory over a struggling Calgary Flames team Sunday night at Grand Casino Arena.

Matt Boldy converted on Johansson’s centering pass from the top of the right circle to break a scoreless tie with 6 minutes, 13 seconds left in the second period for a 1-0 lead, and Kirill Kaprizov scored an empty netter with 50 seconds left as the Wild improved to 4-1-0 in November.

Jesper Wallstedt, making his first start of the season that wasn’t part of a back-to-back, was sharp, stopping several Grade-A chances from a Flames team that was active in the Wild’s end. Calgary outsho

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