Parise's goal lifts Wild over Flames 2-1 in OT

Perhaps Parise's goal 27 seconds into overtime and in Tuesday night's comeback 2-1 win over the Calgary Flames will get Minnesota going.

"If we thought that we were just going to sign a couple players and all of a sudden we've arrived, and they were going to open the gates, and here we are, a playoff team, that's not reality," Wild coach Mike Yeo said. "It's hard. You have to do a lot of things to be a winner, to find yourself at that point."

Jason Zucker scored for Minnesota with 4:19 left in regulation to send it to overtime.

Calgary's Mark Giordano was then given a delay-of-game penalty with 43 seconds to go. The penalty carried over into the extra period, and Parise beat goalie Joey MacDonald for the 4-on-3 winner. Parise's goal was only Minnesota's fourth in its last 41 power-play opportunities.

Alex Tanguay scored for the Flames and MacDonald stopped 28 shots.

The Flames went 1-for-7 with the man advantage, and failed to put Minnesota away when given several chances.

Calgary wasted a five-minute power play in the second and a four-minute advantage in the third. It didn't get a shot on either chances and could barely get set up in Minnesota's zone.

"When you waste nine minutes of power play without even getting a shot on net, you don't deserve to win," said Flames coach Bob Hartley, who abruptly ended his postgame news conference after two questions. "We could have put them away and we didn't."

Niklas Backstrom made 20 saves for the Wild.

The Flames took nine of the game's first 10 shots and led 1-0 after Tanguay batted in a shot that popped up and out of Backstrom's glove.

It wasn't the way the Wild wanted to start after losing to Calgary on Saturday.

"We know we need to be better. We can't come out flat after losing to these guys in their building," said Devin Setoguchi, who set up Zucker's goal. "For them to come in and run us out of our building, that's not good enough."

Parise appeared to tie it later in the first period, but replays showed that Giordano stopped the puck before it completely crossed the red line and the goal was waived off.