Marco Rossi scored two goals and an assist, Kirill Kaprizov added a goal and two assists and the Minnesota Wild defeated the Anaheim Ducks 5-1 on Friday night to secure their fifth straight victory, their biggest win of the season.

Matt Boldy also had a goal and two assists, Yakov Trenin scored into an empty net and Filip Gustavsson made 26 saves for the Wild.

Brock McGinn scored one goal and John Gibson made 28 saves for the undermanned Ducks, who were without forwards Trevor Zegras (lower body) and Leo Carlsson (upper body).

Rossi scored the first goal on a power play when he fired from near the right post at 4:22 of the second period. Less than four minutes later, he added his second goal of the game and his ninth goal of the season, making it 2-0.

Boldy scored less than three minutes later after a pass from Rossi.

Kaprizov pounced on a loose puck in front of the Ducks’ goal early in the third period and scored his 17th goal for the team, taking a 4-0 lead. McGinn scored for the Ducks with less than three minutes left to spoil the shutout.

Takeaways

Wild: Minnesota has a 7-0-2 record in its last nine road games, and Kaprizov has a 13-game point streak in road games.

Ducks: On the day Anaheim signed defenseman Jacob Trouba in a trade with the New York Rangers, defenseman Cam Fowler tied Corey Perry for the second-most games played in franchise history with 988.

Key moment

Rossi received credit for his second goal and his first multi-goal game of the season while near the Ducks’ net as Gibson was unable to hold on to a loose puck and ended up shooting it into his own net.

Key statistics

The Wild led the NHL in scoring the first goal of a game, the 17th time this season. Anaheim is now second with 16.

Next

Wild visits Los Angeles on Saturday and the Ducks visit Montreal on Monday to open a four-game trip.