The meeting became a least to say eventful story where Eriksson Ek's teammate Marcus Johansson scored the home team's first goal, which meant 1–1.
After the two teams continued to follow each other, Minnesota could pull away when Eriksson Ek followed up his first goal to 3–2 by scoring three goals in a row, first one at the end of the second period and then two more – just over a minute apart – at the beginning of the third period. This meant a lead of 7–4, but the match was not over yet.
Instead, San Jose could reduce the lead twice before William Smith, through a pass from Timothy Liljegren, could equalize with just 52 seconds left.
However, in overtime, it only took 61 seconds for Russian Kirill Kaprizov to shoot 8–7 to Minnesota, which thereby secured the extra point.
The night's harvest means that Joel Eriksson Ek, despite his absence, has scraped together a total of 28 points so far this season.
