David Pastrnak was held off the scoresheet on Sunday in Minnesota and, if you have been following these Bruins, you know that’s not a good thing.

Pastrnak, who has been carrying this team offensively, had his 17-game point streak snapped and the undermanned B lost to the equally decimated Minnesota Wild, 1-0, in St. Paul.

Freddy Gaudreau scored the only goal in the game and Filip Gustavsson made 28 saves — five on Pastrnak — for the Wild victory.

The B’s played without Brad Marchand after the captain left Saturday’s game in Pittsburgh. Marchand had his head rammed into the boards by Penguin defenseman PO Joseph and needed help to the dressing room. He traveled with the team to St. Paul but was not available and interim coach Joe Sacco did not have any update on this condition. He’ll be re-evaluated on Monday in Boston.

In Marchand’s place, Georgii Merkulov moved up to the second line with Elias Lindolm and Charlie Coyle while Justin Brazeau drew back in the lineup.

The scoreless first period was a relatively quiet with neither team getting much sustained pressure. Marcus Foligno tried to get his team going by dropping the gloves Mark Kastelic, who had earlier taken exception with a Jon Merrill hit on Matt Poitras. Both Kastelic and Foligno landed a couple punches before Foligno scored the takedown.

The B’s had a good chance early in the second when John Beecher fed Jeffrey Viel in front. Filip Gustavsson made an excellent pad save on Viel, who then put his head down and took a couple of whacks at the puck. It eventually crossed over the line but it was ruled that Gustavsson had frozen it under his pad before Viel pushed it in.

The Wild took a 1-0 lead at 5:01 on what looked like a preventable sequence. With the B’s top line at the end of a shift, David Pastrnak flipped a pass for Morgan Geekie from behind the red line. It went ahead of Geekie, who was ahead of Wild defenseman Brock Faber and believed it would nullify the icing. But he stopped skating, Faber did not and it was called for icing.

With gassed Bruin skaters on the ice, the Wild controlled the faceoff and Marcus Johansson’s shot deflected off Freddy Gaudreau in front and beat Jeremy Swayman. It didn’t help Geekie’s mood that Jared Spurgeon got away with chopping the stick out of his hands just before the goal.

The B’s could not capitalize on a power play, nor could the Wild cash in back-to-back power plays which produced a short 5-on-3 and it was a one-goal game going into the third period.

Joe Sacco mixed up his lines for the third and the B’s controlled the play territorially, but they could not get the equalizer.