TORONTO — Jared Spurgeon and Marat Khusnutdinov scored in the first period, Filip Gustavsson stopped 31 shots, and the Minnesota Wild beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-1 on Wednesday night. Marcus Foligno added an empty-netter in the final minute as Minnesota won its second straight to improve to 3-5-0 in their last eight games.

The Minnesota Timberwolves are at the New York Knicks Friday night, and center Naz Reid had his high school jersey retired at Roselle Catholic in New Jersey Thursday night.

New Jersey Devils goaltender Jacob Markstrom will be out 4-6 weeks with a knee injury. The Swede was injured in a 5-1 win over the Bruins on Wednesday. The injury occurred when Boston forward Justin Brazeau crashed into him.

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Dmitry Kulikov has finally gotten his time in the spotlight. Skating in his 1,000 career game Wednesday versus the Los Angeles Kings, the veteran blue-liner

Susan Krause of Rosemount alleged New Jersey-based Integra LifeSciences pressured her to lie to regulators. Integra says ‘salacious’ allegations not true.

NEW YORK (AP) — Former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez was sentenced Wednesday to 11 years in prison for his conviction for accepting bribes of gold bars, cash and a car and what his lawyers said made him a “national punchline” and earned him a new nickname: “gold bar Bob.”

A Minnesota-based officiating team is the NFL’s High School Officiating Crew of the Year. The crew was nominated by the Minnesota Vikings.

During his time suiting up for the Celtics, Pavlovic wore only jersey Nos. 77 and 11 and put up 2.4 points and 1.4 rebounds per game.

On a call with Senator Chuck Schumer, the minority leader, six Democratic governors pushed him to slow down the confirmation of President Trump’s nominees and to do more to block his agenda.

The Utah Hockey Club has chosen three finalists for the permanent team name it will adopt beginning with the 2025-26 NHL season. Yeti isn’t one of them.

Novo Nordisk agreed to cap insulin prices to settle a lawsuit in which Minnesota's attorney general accused the three largest insulin makers of charging astronomically high prices for the diabetes drug.