St. Paul, MN (Best E Casino) - Marian Gaborik's goal with 2:39 remaining in overtime gave the Minnesota Wild a 3-2 victory over the St. Louis Blues at Xcel Energy Center.

Gaborik picked up a loose puck just inside his own blueline and quickly darted up the ice up the left wing on an odd-man rush with Eric Belanger. As Gaborik got closer to the net, he used Belanger as a decoy and snapped the puck past Manny Legace on the short side to win it for Minnesota.

Brian Rolston had a goal and an assist while Niklas Backstrom stopped 22 shots for the Wild, who have won three straight.

"It's tough to lose a 2-0 lead," said Backstrom. "It would have felt much worse if we would have lost this game, so it was a big goal by Gaborik to get us two points and I think we earned those two points."

Lee Stempniak and Brad Boyes scored while Legace ended with 23 saves for the Blues, who had a three-game win streak snapped.

"We played hard, even though we got down two goals," said St. Louis defenseman Barrett Jackman."We tried to get pressure on their defense, I think we did that all night."

The Wild grabbed a 1-0 lead with 9:55 remaining in the first period. On a two- man advantage, Rolston slid a pass to Brent Burns in the slot and his snap shot beat Legace high to the glove side.

Minnesota extended its lead to 2-0 just nine seconds into the second stanza as Rolston tallied his eighth goal of the season off a feed from Belanger.

St. Louis managed to get on the board at 5:22 of the second after Stempniak fired a quick wrist shot past Backstrom and just under the crossbar from the high slot.

The Blues then managed to even the score at 2-2 at 11:18 of the second after Boyes took a feed from Paul Kariya down low and slipped the puck through the legs of Backstrom.

Game Notes

Minnesota has won six of the last eight meetings overall...Gaborik has 10 goals on the season...Boyes' goal was his 15th on the year...The Wild went 1- for-4 on the power play while the Blues did not score in four chances with the man advantage.