BOSTON _ Charlie Coyle, who grew up 25 minutes from Boston ("without traffic") in Weymouth, scored his first career goal against his hometown Bruins on Tuesday night.
As the former Bruins diehard celebrated the first of four-second period goals by the Wild, one would have thought the game was being played at Xcel Energy Center, not TD Garden.
That's how loud Coyle's friends and family members were in the stands as the Wild went on to rout the Bruins and their two minor league call-up goaltenders, 5-0.
Asked before the game who would be attending the game, Coyle, who had dinner with his parents and sisters the night before the game, said, "Everybody."
Coyle and Chris Stewart scored 12 seconds apart to break a scoreless tie, then Ryan Suter and Jason Zucker added goals as the Wild, who lead the NHL with 15 second-period tallies, skated to their first road win of the season (1-2-1).
Jason Zucker and rookie Joel Eriksson Ek each had three-point games, the first multi-point game of the 19-year-old Eriksson Ek's career in just his third game. Jason Pominville also scored a third-period goal.
Devan Dubnyk, who entered the game with a 0-5 record and 5.20 goals-against average lifetime against the Bruins, made 27 saves for his first shutout of the season, 11th with the Wild and 20th of his career.
The Wild are 13-4-2 all-time against Bruins and 8-2 all-time in Boston.
With Bruins goalies Tuukka Rask and Anton Khudobin injured, Boston was forced to call up Providence goalies Malcolm Subban and Zane McIntyre.
Subban, 22, the younger brother of Nashville Predators star P.K. Subban, had only one prior NHL start under his belt two seasons ago. He was yanked after 32 minutes that night in St. Louis.
Pulled in two of his first three starts in Providence and riding a 4.50 goals-against average, Subban lasted less than 31 minutes on this night.
After Coyle's hard work led to his third goal of the season, Christian Folin dumped the puck off the ensuing faceoff and Zucker and Eriksson Ek sprinted in on the forecheck. The puck squirted from behind the net to the front, and Stewart, who had angered the coaches one shift before with a turnover, roofed a beauty.
The goals 12 seconds apart were one second off the Wild's road record, previously set in 2006 by Mattias Weinhandl and Wes Walz.
Later, after Adam McQuaid cross-checked Nino Niederreiter viciously, Suter made the Bruins pay by one-timing a goal five seconds into the power play.
That ended Subban's night and began the NHL career of McIntyre, the Thief River Falls native and former University of North Dakota goalie. Zucker greeted him by redirecting Suter's shot for his first goal of the season.
The Wild now have 16 goal scorers, the most in the NHL.
