To cap a road trip that seemed like it would never end, the Minnesota Wild found a sudden and spectacular way to finish.

Mats Zuccarello’s overtime goal, after a set-up pass from Kirill Kaprizov, lifted the Wild to a 3-2 win over the Kraken in Seattle on Thursday night.

With the victory, they finished their seven-game road trip with a 4-1-2 mark, getting at least a point in all but one game.

Ryan Hartman and Brock Faber had first period goals for the Wild, who got 26 saves from Jesper Wallstedt to cool off the red-hot Kraken.

Seattle is now 8-0-2 in its last 10. The Wild out-shot Seattle 4-0 in overtime to win for the seventh time in a row when visiting the Kraken. With two assists in the game, Kaprizov now has reached the 50-point mark for the sixth time in his career.

Minnesota was held scoreless on its first power play, and was out-shot in the opening 20 minutes, but still emerged with a two-goal lead via two shots through traffic that found their mark.

Hartman got it going five minutes into the game when Kaprizov carried the puck into the zone, only to have it knocked off his stick. But the Kraken were slow to pounce on the takeaway, giving Hartman time to send a shot from distance past the Seattle goalie. It was the second consecutive game with a goal for Hartman.

Late in the first, Faber doubled the lead, completing a crisp passing play among the Wild’s other two Team USA Olympians. Passes from Matt Boldy and Quinn Hughes set up Faber for a long shot into the net’s top left corner. It was the 10th goal of the season for Faber, tying his career high.

Late in the first, Hartman clipped former Gophers captain Ben Meyers in the Seattle offensive zone, and was whistled for tripping. But Minnesota’s penalty killers, ranked atop the NHL when playing on the road, held the Kraken harmless.

The second period was all Minnesota early, with the Wild out-shooting Seattle 7-1 at one point, and coming perilously close to a three-goal lead. The the Kraken turned the tables in the final few minutes of the middle frame, forcing Wallstedt into the fight where he stopped everything thrown his way.

The third period began without second-line center Joel Eriksson Ek on the visitors bench, and the Wild juggled lines to account for his absence. With Minnesota looking disjointed in its own zone, the Kraken took advantage and cut the lead in half when Adam Larsson zipped a low shot from the top of the right circle.

Then the Wild ran into penalty trouble, with back-to-back trips to the penalty box. They killed the first one, but could not kill both, and the Kraken forged a tie near the midway point of the third.

Phillip Grubauer had 31 saves for Seattle. The Kraken will complete their season series with the Wild on April 7 with Seattle’s lone visit to St. Paul.

After completing their longest road trip of the season, and longest in franchise history in terms of most consecutive days away from home, the Wild are flying east to enjoy the comforts of home. They will play their next three at Grand Casino Arena, starting Saturday evening with a 7 p.m. opening faceoff versus the New York Islanders.

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The Timberwolves were beaten decisively both times they met Cleveland last season, as Minnesota had no answers for the Cavaliers’ dynamic offense.

The tables were turned Thursday at Target Center.

Minnesota delivered one of its most complete offensive performances of the season.

The Wolves shot 57% from the field while making 20 triples on a night when all five starters scored in double figures, with four of them recording 22-plus points.

Anthony Edwards finished with 25 points, a season-high nine assists and seven rebounds. Julius Randle had 28 points, 11 rebounds and eight dimes. Donte DiVincenzo scored 22 points, while Jaden McDaniels had 26 points on a hyper-efficient 11 for 14 shooting performance.

Thirty-three of Minnesota’s 51 buckets were assisted.

“It’s fun when we play like this, so connected,” Randle said in his postgame, on-court interview.

The Timberwolves (25-13) have now won four straight.

“I just think we’re focused as a group,” Randle said. “We’re starting to realize how good we can be, and it’s up to us to come out and prove it every night.”

The performance was highlighted by a volcanic third quarter in which the Wolves scored 43 points while shooting 70% from the field, including 7 for 9 from distance as they turned a four-point halftime deficit into a 17-point lead through three quarters.

Cleveland (pushed back in the fourth to make it interesting, getting to within four at multiple points in the closing minutes as Cavaliers guard Sam Merrill poured in a barrage of triples.

But the Wolves closed the door with good ball movement that resulted in a couple good looks for McDaniels, who put the game on ice.

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By MORIAH BALINGIT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorneys general in five Democratic-led states filed a lawsuit Thursday against President Donald Trump’s administration after it said it would freeze money for several public benefit programs, citing concerns about fraud in the programs designed to help low-income families.

The states — California, Colorado, Minnesota, Illinois and New York — called the move an unconstitutional abuse of power. The Trump administration announced earlier this week it was withholding their social safety net funding. The funding went toward three federal programs, two of which focus on lifting families with children out of poverty.

New York Attorney General Letitia James, who is leading the lawsuit, said the Trump administration is overstepping its authority by freezing billions of dollars in funds that were already approved for the states by Congress.

The lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York asks the courts to order the administration to halt the freeze and release the funds.

“Once again, the most vulnerable families in our communities are bearing the brunt of this administration’s campaign of chaos and retribution,” James said.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services this week told the five states it was freezing their money for the Child Care and Development Fund, which subsidizes child care for children from low-income families; the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, which provides cash assistance and job training; and the Social Services Block Grant.

HHS officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the lawsuit.

About half of the $10 billion in funding targeted by the Trump administration supported California programs, said the state’s attorney general, Rob Bonta.

In letters to the states, Alex J. Adams, assistant secretary for the Administration for Children and Families, wrote that HHS had “reason to believe” the states were providing benefits to people who were in the U.S. illegally, offering no further details about the allegations. They requested reams of data, including the names and Social Security numbers of everyone that had received some of the benefits.

“The letters requested that California turn over essentially every document ever associated with the state’s implementation of these federal programs and do so within 14 days, by Jan. 20, including personally identifiable information about program participants,” Bonta said. “That is deeply concerning and also deeply frustrating.”

The government intensified its focus on the child care subsidy program after a conservative YouTuber released a video claiming day care centers in Minneapolis had committed up to $100 million in fraud. The child care centers were run by members of the city’s Somali community, which has been frequently maligned by Trump and targeted by immigration authorities.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat, has defended his state’s response and said his state is taking aggressive action to prevent further fraud.

MINNEAPOLIS — The federal immigration agent who fatally shot a woman in her car this week was dragged about 100 yards by a different driver in Minnesota last year during an immigration operation, interviews and court records show.

The agent, described by a spokesperson as a 10-year veteran of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, was treated for a gash on his forearm that required 20 stitches after the dragging incident, for which the driver was convicted of assault last month.

Now that same agent is at the center of a growing backlash over the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement efforts, after he shot and killed Renee Good, 37, in the driver’s seat of her car Wednesday.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noeme said at a news conference Wednesday that the agent, whom she did not name, had feared for his life during the encounter, and noted that he had been dragged by a car in June. Two law enforcement officers with knowledge of the matter, who were not authorized to speak publicly, identified the ICE agent as Jonathan Ross.

It is unclear when the agent, who is part of a division called Enforcement and Removal Operations, returned to work following the June incident, which took place in Bloomington, a Minneapolis suburb.

Ross and other agents were trying to apprehend a Guatemalan man who had been convicted of sexual abuse in Minnesota, according to court records. The agents followed the man, Roberto Carlos Muñoz, as he drove away from his house, and later pulled him over.

A photo provided by the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota shows the officer who shot Renee Good on Wednesday Jan. 7, 2026, at the hospital after the dragging incident in June 2025, where he was treated for his injuries. (New York Times via U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota)

When Ross told the driver to lower his window and open his door, Muñoz refused, an FBI agent wrote in an affidavit. Ross then pulled his Taser, shattered the rear driver’s side window of Muñoz’s car and reached in with one arm to try to unlock a door. At that point, Muñoz shifted into drive and pulled away.

While being dragged, Ross fired his Taser at Muñoz, shocking him twice, the affidavit said, but Muñoz continued to drive for about 100 yards, weaving back and forth in an apparent effort to shake the agent from the car, which he finally did.

The agent landed on the street, bleeding from his right arm, and photographs taken later and included in court documents show a wound to his arm and blood on his pants and left hand. The cut to his arm required 20 stitches, according to court records.

Muñoz, meanwhile, had called 911 to say that he was assaulted by an immigration agent — a phone call that ultimately helped officers find and arrest him about a mile away.

His trial took place over several days in Minnesota last month. On Dec. 10, a jury deliberated for about two hours before convicting him of assaulting a federal officer with a dangerous or deadly weapon, resulting in injury.

Muñoz has not yet been sentenced, and his lawyer, Eric Newmark, declined to comment on his case.

The Wednesday shooting of Good, an American citizen, in South Minneapolis has resulted in sharply different interpretations of the event from local and federal officials. President Donald Trump and other federal officials have said that the agent acted in self-defense, while state and local officials described those accounts with terms like “propaganda” and “garbage.”

Tricia McLaughlin, the Homeland Security spokesperson, said in a statement that the agent who killed Good, whom she also did not name, had extensive experience, including in marksmanship and as a member of ICE’s special response team, and that he had “acted according to his training” on Wednesday.

Minnesota law enforcement officials said Thursday that they were being denied access to evidence from the shooting by federal agencies, and could no longer participate in the investigation as a result.

Footage of the shooting shows one federal agent grabbing the handle of Good’s vehicle, which is partially blocking a street in South Minneapolis, while Ross walks around the front of her car. Good reverses slightly, then shifts into drive, moving the car toward the agent before turning the wheels to the right, away from him.

Ross fires one shot, then continues firing as the vehicle moves past him. It appears from the videos that he fired once through the front windshield and twice through the driver’s side window, killing Good.

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