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Minnesota Wild defeat Calgary Flames 3-0
Friday, Nov. 7, 2003
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CALGARY, Alberta (Ticker) -- The Minnesota Wild have been getting goals from virtually everyone in their lineup. That list now includes Pascal Dupuis.

Dupuis had a goal and an assist and Dwayne Roloson made 34 saves against his former team for his first shutout of the season as the Wild extended their unbeaten streak to five games with a 3-0 blanking of the struggling Calgary Flames.

Heading into this Northwest Division battle, the Wild received goals from 15 different players but none from Dupuis and Marian Gaborik, who recently ended their holdouts. Dupuis picked up his third assist of the season when he set up Marc Chouinard's goal with 4:53 left in the first period.

After Richard Park scored on the power play with 6:44 remaining in the second, Dupuis took advantage of a turnover by Craig Conroy at 13:06 of the third.

"He feeds it right in the middle. Thanks, Conroy," Dupuis said. "I kind of missed my shot, too. It's always good to get the first one, but the main thing is it was another big win tonight."

The Flames were shut out for the third time this season, have not scored in more than 122 minutes and were booed off the ice at the Pengrowth Saddledome.

"These are the low points in our season," Conroy said. "We've got to find a way to score goals and we're not finding a way. If it's one or two games, we can't let it go five or six games."

Roloson made 18 stops in the third period and caught a break when defenseman Jordan Leopold's shot caromed off the crossbar.

Seconds later, under heavy pressure at the boards, Conroy coughed up the puck and Dupuis fired a slap shot from the slot past Jamie McLennan.

"I made a terrible play," admitted Conroy, who was on the ice for two goals. "I gave it right to him. I saw (Chris) Clark and all their guys were down low. I was getting a little risky and it caught me. I thought I could catch him, but you know it's a stupid play. I was just trying to create something that wasn't there."

Roloson won his third straight decision following a 0-3-1 start, posting his 12th career shutout and 10th with Minnesota.

Minnesota posted its first shutout of the season and got on the board when Alexandre Daigle hit Chouinard with a cross-ice pass through the slot on a 2-on-1. Calgary defenseman Denis Gauthier got his stick on the puck, but Chouinard was able to lift a wrist shot over McLennan.

The Wild, who failed to score a power-play goal in Tuesday's 4-4 tie at Colorado, struck on its third man advantage of the game.

With three seconds remaining on Chuck Kobasew's high-sticking penalty, Jim Dowd feathered a pass from behind the net to Park. Unchecked in the slot, Park snapped a shot past McLennan's glove side.

"I saw Jimmy was going to get the puck, so I just tried getting open and tried getting a quick shot," Park said. "It's not exactly where I wanted it to go, but sometimes those go in."

McLennan turned aside just 17 shots and has lost four of his last six decisions.

Coming off a 3-0 loss to Detroit, Calgary tied a season high in shots. But the Flames generated few scoring chances in the first 40 minutes and lost for the fourth time in five games.



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