Deadspin | Six different Blues score in comeback victory over Wild 
Apr 13, 2026; St. Louis, Missouri, USA; St. Louis Blues defenseman Theo Lindstein (41) scores a goal past Minnesota Wild goaltender Filip Gustavsson (32) in the second period at Enterprise Center. Mandatory Credit: Joe Puetz-Imagn Images Six different players scored for the St. Louis Blues, who came from behind to defeat the visiting Minnesota Wild 6-3 on Monday night.
Jimmy Snuggerud had a goal and an assist for the Blues (35-33-12, 82 points), who are out of playoff contention but have won four of their last six games. Joel Hofer made 28 saves.
Nick Foligno had a goal and an assist, and Filip Gustavsson made 16 saves for the Wild (45-24-12, 102 points), who had nine regular players out of the lineup to rest up for the Stanley Cup playoffs, which starts on Saturday. They have lost three straight.
Colton Parayko gave St. Louis the early 1-0 lead at 1:22 of the first period. His slap shot through traffic narrowly beat Gustavsson five-hole and trickled over the goal line.
Foligno tied the game 1-1 on a power play at 14:46. Yakov Trenin’s shot ricocheted off the post, and Foligno scored on the rebound.
Danila Yurov extended Minnesota’s lead to 2-1 at 19:13. The Wild went on another power play after Parayko went to the box for boarding Yurov and getting into a scrum with Trenin. Valdimir Tarasenko set Yurov up with a cross-ice pass, and the winger scored on a wrist shot.
Hunter Haight appeared to score his first NHL goal at 1:13 of the second period and increase the Wild’s lead to 3-1, but the goal was waved off for goaltender interference. Michael McCarron successfully made it 3-1 on a short-handed attempt at 1:59. The Blues turned the puck over in the offensive zone, and Foligno broke up the ice before setting McCarron up.
The Blues appeared to retaliate with a power-play goal at 3:35, but the goal was waived off for being offside. Otto Stenberg successfully buried the second goal for St. Louis at 4:04, and Pavel Buchnevich scored his own at 4:31 to tie the game 3-3.
Cam Fowler almost gave the Blues their first lead of the game, 4-3, at 12:07, but that goal was also waved off for being offside. Theo Lindstein’s backhanded shot wasn’t contested at 16:41, and St. Louis officially took the 4-3 advantage.
Jake Neighbours increased the lead to 5-3 at 3:05 of the third period with a wrist shot.
Snuggerud iced the puck into an empty net with 3:04 remaining in regulation for the 6-3 final.
–Field Level Media
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Apr 13, 2026; St. Louis, Missouri, USA; St. Louis Blues defenseman Theo Lindstein (41) scores a goal past Minnesota Wild goaltender Filip Gustavsson (32) in the second period at Enterprise Center. Mandatory Credit: Joe Puetz-Imagn Images Six different players scored for the St. Louis Blues, who came from behind to defeat the visiting Minnesota Wild 6-3 on Monday night.
Jimmy Snuggerud had a goal and an assist for the Blues (35-33-12, 82 points), who are out of playoff contention but have won four of their last six games. Joel Hofer made 28 saves.
Nick Foligno had a goal and an assist, and Filip Gustavsson made 16 saves for the Wild (45-24-12, 102 points), who had nine regular players out of the lineup to rest up for the Stanley Cup playoffs, which starts on Saturday. They have lost three straight.
Colton Parayko gave St. Louis the early 1-0 lead at 1:22 of the first period. His slap shot through traffic narrowly beat Gustavsson five-hole and trickled over the goal line.
Foligno tied the game 1-1 on a power play at 14:46. Yakov Trenin’s shot ricocheted off the post, and Foligno scored on the rebound.
Danila Yurov extended Minnesota’s lead to 2-1 at 19:13. The Wild went on another power play after Parayko went to the box for boarding Yurov and getting into a scrum with Trenin. Valdimir Tarasenko set Yurov up with a cross-ice pass, and the winger scored on a wrist shot.
Hunter Haight appeared to score his first NHL goal at 1:13 of the second period and increase the Wild’s lead to 3-1, but the goal was waved off for goaltender interference. Michael McCarron successfully made it 3-1 on a short-handed attempt at 1:59. The Blues turned the puck over in the offensive zone, and Foligno broke up the ice before setting McCarron up.
The Blues appeared to retaliate with a power-play goal at 3:35, but the goal was waived off for being offside. Otto Stenberg successfully buried the second goal for St. Louis at 4:04, and Pavel Buchnevich scored his own at 4:31 to tie the game 3-3.
Cam Fowler almost gave the Blues their first lead of the game, 4-3, at 12:07, but that goal was also waved off for being offside. Theo Lindstein’s backhanded shot wasn’t contested at 16:41, and St. Louis officially took the 4-3 advantage.
Jake Neighbours increased the lead to 5-3 at 3:05 of the third period with a wrist shot.
Snuggerud iced the puck into an empty net with 3:04 remaining in regulation for the 6-3 final.
–Field Level Media
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He recently sat down for an interview on the USA Soccercast, and in that interview, he mentioned that the rise in popularity of the game wasn’t based on one big moment, but a sustained buildup of momentum.“[American soccer] sort of grew when I was starting in 1990,” Alan Rothenberg, former U.S. Soccer president and CEO of the 1994 World Cup, said in an interview for the USA Soccercast. “I had a glimpse of it back in the 70s when we had a team in Los Angeles ,and obviously the Cosmos set the world on fire at that time with Pelé and [Franz] Beckebauer…you had Giants Stadium. So there were those glimpses of what the future could hold. But as we started to build the soccer federation, our [1994] World cup team and the World cup organization, it just started to accelerate. So there wasn’t one ‘a ha!’ moment.”Soccer Meets America takes the unique yet unexpected path of professional soccer in the United States andn gives the story some definition. 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Yesterday, SB Nation collaborated with Vox Creative and Roku to release Soccer Meets America, a 3-part docuseries that focuses on the rise of soccer in the United States.Soccer Meets America focuses around the meteoric rise in popularity, from the North American Soccer League days of the 1970s and 1980s to the 1984 Olympics, leading up to the 1994 World Cup. At the center of that history was Alan Rothenberg, who served as soccer commissioner for the 1984 Olympics, the president of the U.S. Soccer Federation from 1990 to 1998, and the CEO of the 1994 World Cup. He also had a hand in the start of Major League Soccer, adding women’s soccer to the Olympic program in 1996, and bringing the 1999 Women’s World Cup to the United States.Rothenberg recently released a new book entitled The Big Bounce: The Surge that Shaped the Future of U.S. Soccer. In the book, Rothenberg gives an inside account at how American soccer went from the days where leagues were not organized and fizzled quickly to some of the success we have today with leagues like Major League Soccer, the National Women’s Soccer League, and the United Soccer Leagues. He details his firsthand knowledge of what it took for the United States to host a successful soccer tournament at the 1984 Olympics, how the nation won the bid to host the 1994 World Cup, and how he was able to organize the federation to get everything done and push the game forward. He recently sat down for an interview on the USA Soccercast, and in that interview, he mentioned that the rise in popularity of the game wasn’t based on one big moment, but a sustained buildup of momentum.“[American soccer] sort of grew when I was starting in 1990,” Alan Rothenberg, former U.S. Soccer president and CEO of the 1994 World Cup, said in an interview for the USA Soccercast. “I had a glimpse of it back in the 70s when we had a team in Los Angeles ,and obviously the Cosmos set the world on fire at that time with Pelé and [Franz] Beckebauer…you had Giants Stadium. So there were those glimpses of what the future could hold. But as we started to build the soccer federation, our [1994] World cup team and the World cup organization, it just started to accelerate. So there wasn’t one ‘a ha!’ moment.”Soccer Meets America takes the unique yet unexpected path of professional soccer in the United States andn gives the story some definition. Through people like Rothenberg, we see that the history is shaped by chance, persistence, and communities that kept the game alive long before it found mainstream recognition. Starting with the sport’s deep roots in immigrant communities in the 1920s, each episode of the docuseries explores soccer on a personal and professional level. Both nostalgic and forward-facing, the series features a variety of influential figures in American soccer and aims to resonate with new and old fans of the sport alike.But there’s also the legacy of the 2026 World Cup, which will be different from what it was in 1994. “Well, obviously we’re starting from a different baseline,” Rothenberg said. “We started at virtually zero back in [1990], and now we’re starting from level 60 or 75…so the dramatic consequences will not be the same as they were after 94, but I think it’s going to be a huge spike in interest in the sport at all levels.”To grow the history, you must learn from it. 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