ST. PAUL, Minn. -- The Flyers like their chances in three-on-three overtime, defenseman Michael Del Zotto said, given they have multiple goal scorers on the roster.
On Thursday, it was Del Zotto who scored the game-winner, thanks in part to crisp passing by Jakub Voracek and Claude Giroux.
Del Zotto buried his second goal of the game with 37 seconds remaining in overtime, giving the Flyers (17-15-7) a 4-3 win over the Wild and their first road victory in their last six attempts (see Instant Replay).
"We like our chances when we have three-on-three," Del Zotto, who had his first multi-goal game since 2012, said. "(Voracek and Giroux) did a good job of finding me, and we were fortunate to get the win."
The victory came on a night during in which the Flyers took a 3-1 lead in the second period but allowed the Wild (21-12-7) to score two unassisted goals to send the game to overtime.
Forward Ryan White scored his first goal in 10 games and his fourth of the season for the Flyers, and center Sean Couturier scored his fifth goal in nine games — his 10th point during that same span.
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"In the first two periods, we were a really solid hockey club," goalie Steve Mason, who saved 31 shots, said. "Third period I think we kind of sat back a little bit, but we were able to grind it out when we needed to, and it's nice to kind of get the winning feeling back on the road here."
The Flyers appeared to be the more aggressive team for much of the first and second periods, outshooting the Wild, 26-16, through two.
Couturier gave the team a 1-0 lead on a goal less than eight minutes into the game. Del Zotto and White scored second-period goals less than a minute apart, stretching the Flyers' lead to 3-1.
Couturier has centered Brayden Schenn and Michael Raffl for the past seven-plus periods. The move has appeared to spark the offense, as the threesome has combined for nine points in the past two games.
"They're just simple [and] easy to play with," said Schenn, who was playing his first game after the Flyers traded his brother, Luke, to the Los Angeles Kings. "All three of us are just feeding off one another right now."
The Wild appeared more aggressive in the third, and Zach Parise, a former New Jersey Devils star, tied the game on a unassisted goal with less than seven minutes remaining.
Mason said Parise's goal was not a miscommunication between him and defenseman Nick Schultz.
"We did everything we wanted to," he said. "It looked like it hit Schultz's stick, popped up, hit my pad and brought it right up into the front of the net. It's just a fluke play, nothing you can do about it."
The Wild then generated multiple shots in the beginning of the three-on-three overtime, all of which Mason saved. His effort allowed the threesome of Del Zotto, Voracek and Giroux to score the game-winning goal.
"I thought in the overtime our best player was our goaltender," coach Dave Hakstol said. "We didn't have the puck very much in the first three minutes of that OT, but that's a little bit the nature of the three-on-three is your going to need a save or two, and we got more than one or two. We probably got two or three good saves and then went down to the other end and made a play."
Hakstol did not speculate on the status of rookie defenseman Shayne Gostisbehere, who sustained a lower-body injury in the second period and did not return. The 22-year-old, who has seven goals, played eight shifts Thursday.
Hakstol said the rookie has done a good job this season, and Mason agreed.
"He's just got a different skill set that not many players have," the goalie said. "He's extremely shifty, sees the ice well, [and] he's got a really high-reward, high-risk type of game to him. You can just see that when he has an opportunity, he makes plays that not many guys can. He has a way of putting the puck through traffic and finding the net. It's nice to see a guy come in and playing with confidence like he is."