LAS VEGAS (AP) — Pavel Dorofeyev had two power-play goals and added an assist and the Vegas Golden Knights broke open a tie game with three third-period goals to beat the Minnesota Wild 4-1 on Sunday night.
The Golden Knights joined Washington and Winnipeg atop the NHL with 61 points, avoiding their first three-game losing streak of the season.
Click to Gallery
Vegas Golden Knights defenseman Zach Whitecloud (2) pushes Minnesota Wild left wing Marcus Foligno (17) during the third period of an NHL hockey game Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Ian Maule)
Vegas Golden Knights center Tomas Hertl (48) high-fives teammates after his goal during the third period of an NHL hockey game against the Minnesota Wild, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Ian Maule)
Minnesota Wild left wing Marcus Foligno (17) dives past Vegas Golden Knights defenseman Zach Whitecloud (2) and goaltender Adin Hill, center, during the third period of an NHL hockey game Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Ian Maule)
Minnesota Wild goaltender Filip Gustavsson (32) makes a save during the second period of an NHL hockey game against the Vegas Golden Knights, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Ian Maule)
Minnesota Wild defenseman Travis Dermott (44) and goaltender Filip Gustavsson (32) defend against a shot by Vegas Golden Knights defenseman Noah Hanifin (15) during the second period of an NHL hockey game Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Ian Maule)
Vegas Golden Knights right wing Keegan Kolesar (55) skates past Minnesota Wild defenseman Declan Chisholm (47) during the second period of an NHL hockey game Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Ian Maule)
Vegas Golden Knights goaltender Adin Hill chases down the puck during the first period of an NHL hockey game against the Minnesota Wild, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Ian Maule)
Minnesota Wild center Marat Khusnutdinov, right, checks Vegas Golden Knights right wing Cole Schwindt, left, during the first period of an NHL hockey game Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Ian Maule)
Minnesota Wild center Marcus Johansson (90) and right wing Ryan Hartman (38) celebrate after Hartman's goal during the first period of an NHL hockey game against the Vegas Golden Knights, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Ian Maule)
Vegas Golden Knights left wing Pavel Dorofeyev reacts after scoring during the second period of an NHL hockey game against the Minnesota Wild, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Ian Maule)
Vegas Golden Knights right wing Keegan Kolesar (55) and Minnesota Wild left wing Marcus Foligno (17) fight during the first period of an NHL hockey game Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Ian Maule)
Tomas Hertl added a goal and an assist, Keegan Kolesar scored the tiebreaker and Mark Stone and Shea Theodore each had two assists. Adin Hill made 15 saves.
Ryan Hartman scored for the Wild. Filip Gustavsson stopped 32 shots.
Jack Eichel, who leads the Golden Knights with 54 points, did not play because of an illness. Vegas, however, got back center Nicolas Roy after he missed 11 games because of an upper-body injury.
Unless these teams meet in the postseason, this was Wild goalie Marc-Andre Fleury's final game at T-Mobile Arena. Fleury played for the Golden Knights from their inaugural season in 2017-18 until 2021 and still is arguably the most popular player in the franchise's short history.
He didn't play against his old club, but was cheered and fans chanted his name in pregame, when the Golden Knights saluted him on the video board at the first timeout and in the final minutes.
Wild: After taking a 1-0 lead, Minnesota was not able to capitalize on the lead. The Wild were outshot 17-6 in the second period as the Golden Knights began to seize control.
Golden Knights: Both of Dorofeyev's goals were on the power play, giving Vegas four in four games.
Kolesar scored off Zach Whitecloud's rebound to put the Golden Knights ahead 2-1 4:09 into the third period.
3 hours, 43 minutes — The time between five-on-five goals for the Golden Knights when Kolesar scored in the third.
The Wild host Edmonton on Wednesday night. The Golden Knights are at Nashville on Tuesday night.
AP NHL: https://apnews.com/hub/nhl
Vegas Golden Knights defenseman Zach Whitecloud (2) pushes Minnesota Wild left wing Marcus Foligno (17) during the third period of an NHL hockey game Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Ian Maule)
Vegas Golden Knights center Tomas Hertl (48) high-fives teammates after his goal during the third period of an NHL hockey game against the Minnesota Wild, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Ian Maule)
Minnesota Wild left wing Marcus Foligno (17) dives past Vegas Golden Knights defenseman Zach Whitecloud (2) and goaltender Adin Hill, center, during the third period of an NHL hockey game Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Ian Maule)
Minnesota Wild goaltender Filip Gustavsson (32) makes a save during the second period of an NHL hockey game against the Vegas Golden Knights, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Ian Maule)
Minnesota Wild defenseman Travis Dermott (44) and goaltender Filip Gustavsson (32) defend against a shot by Vegas Golden Knights defenseman Noah Hanifin (15) during the second period of an NHL hockey game Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Ian Maule)
Vegas Golden Knights right wing Keegan Kolesar (55) skates past Minnesota Wild defenseman Declan Chisholm (47) during the second period of an NHL hockey game Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Ian Maule)
Vegas Golden Knights goaltender Adin Hill chases down the puck during the first period of an NHL hockey game against the Minnesota Wild, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Ian Maule)
Minnesota Wild center Marat Khusnutdinov, right, checks Vegas Golden Knights right wing Cole Schwindt, left, during the first period of an NHL hockey game Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Ian Maule)
Minnesota Wild center Marcus Johansson (90) and right wing Ryan Hartman (38) celebrate after Hartman's goal during the first period of an NHL hockey game against the Vegas Golden Knights, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Ian Maule)
Vegas Golden Knights left wing Pavel Dorofeyev reacts after scoring during the second period of an NHL hockey game against the Minnesota Wild, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Ian Maule)
Vegas Golden Knights right wing Keegan Kolesar (55) and Minnesota Wild left wing Marcus Foligno (17) fight during the first period of an NHL hockey game Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Ian Maule)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal agents carrying out immigration arrests in Minnesota's Twin Cities region already shaken by the fatal shooting of a woman rammed the door of one home Sunday and pushed their way inside, part of what the Department of Homeland Security has called its largest enforcement operation ever.
In a dramatic scene similar to those playing out across Minneapolis, agents captured a man in the home just minutes after pepper spraying protesters outside who had confronted the heavily armed federal agents. Along the residential street, protesters honked car horns, banged on drums and blew whistles in attempts to disrupt the operation.
Video of the clash taken by The Associated Press showed some agents pushing back protesters while a distraught woman later emerged from the house with a document that federal agents presented to arrest the man. Signed by an immigration officer, the document — unlike a warrant signed by a judge — does not authorize forced entry into a private residence. A warrant signed by an immigration officer only authorizes arrest in a public area.
Immigrant advocacy groups have conducted extensive “know-your-rights” campaigns urging people not to open their doors unless agents have a court order signed by a judge.
But within minutes of ramming the door in a neighborhood filled with single-family homes, the handcuffed man was led away.
More than 2,000 immigration arrests have been made in Minnesota since the enforcement operation began at the beginning of December, said Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told Fox News on Sunday that the administration would send additional federal agents to Minnesota to protect immigration officers and continue enforcement.
The Twin Cities — the latest target in President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement campaign — is bracing for what is next after 37-year-old Renee Good was shot and killed by an immigration officer on Wednesday.
“We’re seeing a lot of immigration enforcement across Minneapolis and across the state, federal agents just swarming around our neighborhoods,” said Jason Chavez, a Minneapolis city councilmember. “They’ve definitely been out here.”
Chavez, the son of Mexican immigrants who represents an area with a growing immigrant population, said he is closely monitoring information from chat groups about where residents are seeing agents operating.
People holding whistles positioned themselves in freezing temperatures on street corners Sunday in the neighborhood where Good was killed, watching for any signs of federal agents.
More than 20,000 people have taken part in a variety of trainings to become “observers” of enforcement activities in Minnesota since the 2024 election, said Luis Argueta, a spokesperson for Unidos MN, a local human rights organization .
“It’s a role that people choose to take on voluntarily, because they choose to look out for their neighbors,” Argueta said.
The protests have been largely peaceful, but residents remained anxious. On Monday, Minneapolis public schools will start offering remote learning for the next month in response to concerns that children might feel unsafe venturing out while tensions remain high.
Many schools closed last week after Good’s shooting and the upheaval that followed.
While the enforcement activity continues, two of the state’s leading Democrats said that the investigation into Good's shooting death should not be overseen solely by the federal government.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and U.S. Sen. Tina Smith said in separate interviews Sunday that state authorities should be included in the investigation because the federal government has already made clear what it believes happened.
“How can we trust the federal government to do an objective, unbiased investigation, without prejudice, when at the beginning of that investigation they have already announced exactly what they saw — what they think happened," Smith said on ABC’s "This Week."
The Trump administration has defended the officer who shot Good in her car, saying he was protecting himself and fellow agents and that Good had “weaponized” her vehicle.
Todd Lyons, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, defended the officer on Fox News Channel’s “The Sunday Briefing.”
"That law enforcement officer had milliseconds, if not short time to make a decision to save his life and his other fellow agents,” he said.
Lyons also said the administration’s enforcement operations in Minnesota wouldn't be needed “if local jurisdictions worked with us to turn over these criminally illegal aliens once they are already considered a public safety threat by the locals.”
The killing of Good by an ICE officer and the shooting of two people by federal agents in Portland, Oregon, led to dozens of protests in cities across the country over the weekend, including New York, Los Angeles, Washington D.C. and Oakland, California.
Contributing were Associated Press journalists Giovanna Dell’Orto in Minneapolis; Thomas Strong in Washington; Bill Barrow in Atlanta; Christopher Weber in Los Angeles; and John Seewer in Toledo, Ohio.
A woman gets into an altercation with a federal immigration officer as officers make an arrest Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher)
A federal immigration officer deploys pepper spray as officers make an arrest Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher)
A family member, center, reacts after federal immigration officers make an arrest Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Bystanders are treated after being pepper sprayed as federal immigration officers make an arrest Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher)
A family member reacts after federal immigration officers make an arrest Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Federal agents look on after detaining a person during a patrol in Minneapolis, Minn., Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (Christopher Katsarov/The Canadian Press via AP)
Bystanders react after a man was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during a traffic stop, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Robbinsdale, Minn. (AP Photo/John Locher)
People stand near a memorial at the site where Renee Good was fatally shot by an ICE agent, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jen Golbeck)
A man looks out of a car window after being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during a traffic stop, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Robbinsdale, Minn. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Border Patrol agents detain a man, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Adam Gray)
People shout toward Border Patrol agents making an arrest, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Adam Gray)
Demonstrators protest outside the White House in Washington, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026, against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey holds a news conference on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jen Golbeck)
Protesters react as they visit a makeshift memorial during a rally for Renee Good, who was fatally shot by an ICE officer earlier in the week, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher)
