With the game-winning goal tonight, Kirill Kaprizov earns player of the game honors.

ST. PAUL - Kirill Kaprizov has now scored in three straight games for the Wild and it's all coming at a very important time. 

Without Mats Zuccarello and Ryan Hartman up front, the Wild have had to rely on some depth scoring the last couple of games. That being said, Kaprizov has really turned it up a notch recently. 

The 5-foot-10 forward has four goals and seven points in his last four games and has scored the game-winner in three straight games for the Wild. 

Tonight he scored the go-ahead goal in the second period after the Wild completely dominated the Bruins. 

It was a sloppy first period with an early penalty that allowed David Pastrnak and the Bruins to score and was later followed up with another penalty but the Wild were able to escape the first period only down a goal. 

They took over in the second period though, outshooting the Bruins 19-6 the Wild were able to get a power-play goal by Joel Eriksson Ek and then it was Kaprizov who gave them the lead. 

It started off the face-off when Eriksson Ek won it back to Alex Goligoski who passed one to Kaprizov who then tried to fire one to the net. Oskar Steen blocked it with his stick in the high slot and Kaprizov was able to keep it in. 

The star forward then passed it back to Goligoski and jolted to the slot before Goligoski gave him a one-timer.

"Since I've been here, I haven't seen a difference in his game. For me, I would just say that he's getting rewarded for it," Wild head coach John Hynes said. "There were a couple times, maybe the first few games we were here, I was getting the same questions about Kirill. 

But the production wasn't there, but his game was there. And now you're getting the production. I think when you're an elite player like him, and you play the game the right way, and play to the style of game that he has, it's kind of what I said, it wasn't if. It was going to be when -- when those points were going to come in, and his production was going to come, and now it's here."

Kaprizov's second period goal eventually turned into the winning goal as the Wild hung on to beat the Bruins 3-2 and head into Christmas break 10-3-0 under Hynes.