DETROIT (AP) — Marco Rossi scored with 1:25 remaining in overtime as the Minnesota Wild rallied for a 4-3 victory over the Detroit Red Wings on Saturday.
Rossi had just come out of the penalty box after being called for hooking. He wound up with a breakaway and his shot squirted past the goal line.
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Detroit Red Wings center Dylan Larkin (71) scores on Minnesota Wild goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury (29) as Joel Eriksson Ek (14) defends in the second period of an NHL hockey game Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Detroit Red Wings right wing Alex DeBrincat (93) shoots but hits the pipes as Minnesota Wild goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury (29) defends in the second period of an NHL hockey game Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Detroit Red Wings right wing Alex DeBrincat, second from left, celebrates his goal with Albert Johansson (20), Vladimir Tarasenko (11) and Simon Edvinsson (77) in the first period of an NHL hockey game against the Minnesota Wild, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Detroit Red Wings goaltender Cam Talbot (39) stops a Minnesota Wild defenseman Brock Faber (7) shot as Moritz Seider (53) defends in the first period of an NHL hockey game Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Minnesota Wild center Vinnie Hinostroza (18) scores on Detroit Red Wings goaltender Cam Talbot (39) as Ben Chiarot (8) defends in the second period of an NHL hockey game Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Minnesota Wild center Vinnie Hinostroza (18) celebrates his goal against the Detroit Red Wings in the second period of an NHL hockey game Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Minnesota Wild goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury (29) stops a shot against the Detroit Red Wings in the first period of an NHL hockey game Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Detroit Red Wings defenseman Moritz Seider (53) protects the puck from Minnesota Wild right wing Mats Zuccarello (36) in the first period of an NHL hockey game Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Detroit Red Wings right wing Alex DeBrincat (93) scores past Minnesota Wild goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury (29) in the first period of an NHL hockey game Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Minnesota Wild goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury (29) and Minnesota Wild center Marco Rossi (23) celebrate after overtime in an NHL hockey game against the Detroit Red Wings, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Minnesota Wild center Marco Rossi (23) celebrates scoring on Detroit Red Wings goaltender Cam Talbot (39) in overtime of an NHL hockey game Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Minnesota Wild center Marco Rossi (23) scores on Detroit Red Wings goaltender Cam Talbot (39) in overtime of an NHL hockey game Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Matt Boldy had a goal and an assist for Minnesota, which rallied from a 3-1 third-period deficit. Marcus Foligno and Vinnie Hinostroza also scored and Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 27 shots.
Dylan Larkin, Alex DeBrincat and Lucas Raymond each had a goal and an assist for the Red Wings. Larkin's 13th power-play goal this season tied him with Tampa Bay's Jake Guentzel and Brayden Point for the league lead.
Detroit's Andrew Copp recorded his 300th point in his 700th career game with a first-period assist. Cam Talbot made 35 saves for Detroit.
Wild: They're more than surviving without leading scorer Kirill Kaprizov, who has missed seven straight games due to a lower-body injury that landed him on long-term injured reserve. Minnesota is 5-2 in that span.
Red Wings: Copp, who centered the second line, didn't finish the game. He was injured during a scuffle late in the second period.
Minnesota pulled Fleury for an extra skater trailing 3-2. Foligno scored the tying goal with a shot from the left side off a pass from Rossi.
The 40-year-old Fleury made the 1,045th appearance of his career, surpassing Roberto Luongo for second place on the NHL’s all-time list for games played by a goaltender. Martin Brodeur holds the all-time record with 1,266 games played. Fleury is retiring after the season.
The Wild host the Red Wings in a rematch on Tuesday night.
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Detroit Red Wings center Dylan Larkin (71) scores on Minnesota Wild goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury (29) as Joel Eriksson Ek (14) defends in the second period of an NHL hockey game Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Detroit Red Wings right wing Alex DeBrincat (93) shoots but hits the pipes as Minnesota Wild goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury (29) defends in the second period of an NHL hockey game Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Detroit Red Wings right wing Alex DeBrincat, second from left, celebrates his goal with Albert Johansson (20), Vladimir Tarasenko (11) and Simon Edvinsson (77) in the first period of an NHL hockey game against the Minnesota Wild, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Detroit Red Wings goaltender Cam Talbot (39) stops a Minnesota Wild defenseman Brock Faber (7) shot as Moritz Seider (53) defends in the first period of an NHL hockey game Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Minnesota Wild center Vinnie Hinostroza (18) scores on Detroit Red Wings goaltender Cam Talbot (39) as Ben Chiarot (8) defends in the second period of an NHL hockey game Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Minnesota Wild center Vinnie Hinostroza (18) celebrates his goal against the Detroit Red Wings in the second period of an NHL hockey game Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Minnesota Wild goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury (29) stops a shot against the Detroit Red Wings in the first period of an NHL hockey game Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Detroit Red Wings defenseman Moritz Seider (53) protects the puck from Minnesota Wild right wing Mats Zuccarello (36) in the first period of an NHL hockey game Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Detroit Red Wings right wing Alex DeBrincat (93) scores past Minnesota Wild goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury (29) in the first period of an NHL hockey game Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Minnesota Wild goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury (29) and Minnesota Wild center Marco Rossi (23) celebrate after overtime in an NHL hockey game against the Detroit Red Wings, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Minnesota Wild center Marco Rossi (23) celebrates scoring on Detroit Red Wings goaltender Cam Talbot (39) in overtime of an NHL hockey game Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Minnesota Wild center Marco Rossi (23) scores on Detroit Red Wings goaltender Cam Talbot (39) in overtime of an NHL hockey game Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
TENERIFE, Spain (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization sought Saturday to reassure residents of the Spanish island where passengers of a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship are expected to be evacuated, issuing them a direct message that the virus was “not another COVID.”
The Dutch-flagged MV Hondius, with more than 140 passengers and crew on board, is headed to Spain's Canary Islands, off the coast of West Africa, and is expected to arrive at the island of Tenerife early Sunday.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, along with Spain’s Health Minister Monica Garcia and Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska, were due on the island Saturday to coordinate the disembarkation of passengers and some crew.
“I know you are worried. I know that when you hear the word ‘outbreak’ and watch a ship sail toward your shores, memories surface that none of us have fully put to rest. The pain of 2020 is still real, and I do not dismiss it for a single moment,” Tedros said in a message to the people of Tenerife.
“But I need you to hear me clearly: This is not another COVID. The current public health risk from hantavirus remains low. My colleagues and I have said this unequivocally, and I will say it again to you now,” Tedros added.
The WHO, Spanish authorities and cruise company Oceanwide Expeditions said nobody on the Hondius is currently showing symptoms of the virus.
Hantavirus can cause life-threatening illness. It usually spreads when people inhale contaminated residue of rodent droppings and isn’t easily transmitted between people. But the Andes virus detected in the cruise ship outbreak may be able to spread between people in rare cases. Symptoms usually show between one and eight weeks after exposure.
Three people have died since the outbreak, and five passengers who left the ship are infected with hantavirus.
Some on Tenerife say they are worried. On board the cruise ship, some Spanish passengers have voiced concern about being stigmatized.
“I tell you, I don’t like this very much,” said 69-year-old resident Simon Vidal. “Anyone can say what they want. Why did they have to bring a boat from another country here? Why not anywhere else, why bring it to the Canary Islands?”
Others said they empathized with the boat's passengers, but were still concerned.
“The truth is that it is very worrying,” said 27-year-old Venezuelan immigrant Samantha Aguero. She added: “We feel a bit unsafe, we don’t feel as there are 100% security measures in place to welcome it. This is a virus after all and we have lived this during the pandemic. But we also need to have empathy.”
Spanish Health Minister Monica Garcia said passengers and some crew would disembark in Tenerife “under maximum safety conditions.”
The ship will not dock but will remain at anchor. Everyone disembarking will be checked for symptoms and won't be taken off the ship until a flight is already in Tenerife waiting to fly them off the island, Garcia said during a news conference in Madrid. There are currently people of more than 20 different nationalities on board.
Both the U.S. and the U.K. have agreed to send planes to evacuate their citizens. Americans are to be quarantined at a medical center in Nebraska.
All Spanish passengers will be transferred to a medical facility and quarantined, Garcia said. Oceanwide has listed 13 Spanish passengers and one Spanish crew member on board.
Those disembarking will leave behind their luggage, Garcia said, and will be allowed to take only a small bag with essential items, a cellphone, charger and documentation.
Some crew, as well as the body of a passenger who died on board, will remain on the ship, which will sail on to the Netherlands, where it will undergo disinfection, the minister added.
According to a letter sent by the Dutch foreign and health ministers to parliament late Friday, Spain has activated the EU civil protection mechanism for a medical evacuation plane equipped for infections diseases to be on standby in case anyone on the ship becomes ill. That person would then be transported by air to the European mainland.
The Dutch government will work with Spanish authorities and the ship company to arrange repatriation of Dutch passengers and crew as soon as possible after arrival in Tenerife, subject to medical conditions and advice from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, the letter said. Those without symptoms will go into home quarantine for six weeks and be monitored by local health services.
As the ship is Dutch-flagged, the Netherlands may also temporarily accommodate people of other nationalities and monitor them in quarantine, it said.
Health authorities across four continents were tracking down and monitoring more than two dozen passengers who disembarked before the deadly outbreak was detected. They were also scrambling to trace others who may have come into contact with them.
On April 24, nearly two weeks after the first passenger had died on board, more than two dozen people from at least 12 different countries left the ship without contact tracing, Dutch officials and the ship’s operator have said.
It wasn’t until May 2 that health authorities first confirmed hantavirus in a passenger.
Dutch public health authorities have been monitoring people who were on a flight that was briefly boarded by a Dutch ship passenger who later died and was confirmed to have hantavirus. Three people who were on the flight and had symptoms have all tested negative for hantavirus, Dutch National Institute for Public Health spokesperson Harald Wychgel told The Associated Press on Saturday.
Becatoros reported from Sparta, Greece. Associated Press reporters Angela Charlton in Paris and Helena Alves in Tenerife contributed to this report.
A Spanish Civil Guard officer inspects the area where passengers from the MV Hondius cruise ship are expected to arrive at the port of Granadilla in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, Saturday, May 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
Media crew members stand in the area where passengers from the MV Hondius cruise ship are expected to arrive at the port of Granadilla in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, Saturday, May 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
Workers set up temporary shelters in the area where passengers from the MV Hondius cruise ship are expected to arrive at the port of Granadilla in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, Saturday, May 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
Passengers on the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship, MV Hondius, scan the horizon with binoculars during their voyage to Spain's port of Tenerife, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo)
Passengers on the the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship, MV Hondius, watch epidemiologists board the boat in Praia, during their voyage to Spain's port of Tenerife, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo)
A passenger checks his camera inside his cabin on the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship, MV Hondius, during the voyage to Spain's port of Tenerife, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo)
Crew members of the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship, MV Hondius, wait their turns for a first interview with epidemiologists, during the voyage to Spain's port of Tenerife, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo)
A passenger on the the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship, MV Hondius, takes a photo of the ship's weighing anchor in Praia, during the voyage to Spain's port of Tenerife, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo)