Folks headed out on the road for Thanksgiving will tell you that sometimes you need to weather a storm to get where you need to be.

On Thanksgiving Eve in Chicago, the Minnesota Wild weathered a storm of pucks, trailing by a pair of goals at one point, but rallying for a 4-3 overtime win over the Blackhawks in their first meeting of the season.

Kirill Kaprizov’s power-play goal in the extra session came on just his second shot of the game, but lifted the Wild to a 10-1-1 record in November.

The Wild got goals from Brock Faber, Nico Sturm and Matt Boldy to get to the overtime. But their MVP of the evening was goalie Filip Gustavsson, who was busy start to finish, recording 34 saves and keeping the game from getting out of hand with the Blackhawks throwing everything his way early.

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