But Dadonov scored his second of the game at 16:08 on a redirection from the edge of the right face-off circle to give Dallas a 5-3 lead, and Hintz got his second on a breakaway at 16:56 to make it 6-3.
"This is just a weird game, I thought, to be honest," Nyquist said. "I think we started the game good. We came out with a lot of jump and got it back to 2-1. The same in the second, we got it back to 4-3. Just lost ourselves a little bit, gave them a couple easy chances that we usually don't do. Just sharpen that up and we'll be good to go."
Hintz completed his hat trick with a power-play goal at 12:16 of the third period, redirecting Robertson's feed for the 7-3 final.
"They had a short-handed breakaway and two power-play goals. What would you like 'Flower' to do, right?" Minnesota coach Dean Evason said. "He made some incredible saves for us. We just spoke of all the odd-man rushes that we gave up. Another one was a breakaway, another one was a power play. That's what, five?
"We gave them their opportunities. They took them too. They played really well, but we didn't do the right things in front of our goaltender tonight."