Nico Sturm didn't officially earn an assist on the play, but he put the goal in motion.
Sturm and Kirill Kaprizov were next up for an overtime shift, and Sturm told Kaprizov to make the first substitution.
"I knew he had one in him tonight," Sturm said.
So when Frederick Gaudreau approached the bench for a line change, Kaprizov darted into action while Sturm idled.
And when Sturm finally made it on the ice, he wasn't joining the play.
He was piling onto a postgame celebration.
"Maybe he owes me dinner," Sturm said. "We'll talk about that."
Kaprizov scored his first goal of the season in overtime, shedding an eight-game drought and lifting the Wild to a 5-4 victory over the Senators on Tuesday in front of 15,276 at Xcel Energy Center that also nixed the Wild's two-game slide.