Watch hockey long enough and eventually you will see everything.

Like a tying goal in the final second of regulation. Or a game-winning goal with the net dislodged. On Tuesday night, the Minnesota Wild and their fans saw both, within just a few minutes of each other.

The were 0.3 seconds away from a regulation win, only to be struck by outrageous fortune. But in the end, they got a controversial overtime goal from Marcus Johansson to beat the Nashville Predators, 3-2, and post their first two-game winning streak of the season.

But not before Nashville forced overtime in literally the final second of regulation in St. Paul.

On the overtime winner, Johansson was open in front of the Nashville net when Predators goalie Justus Annunen dislodged the net before Johansson could shoot. Referees declared it a goal, and upheld the call after a review, despite the furious protests from the visitors bench.

“I don’t know really what happened and if we were supposed to celebrate or not,” said Johansson, who ran his career-best point streak to six games in the win. “I didn’t know what the call was going to be, but when it’s pushed off like that, maybe it’s the right thing to do. Thankfully I put it in, even though the net wasn’t there.”

Officials explained the call to the Nashville coach, but he had a contrary view of the play.

“I mean, I thought the explanation was, in his opinion, it was a goal,” Predators coach Andrew Brunette said. “I disagree with his opinion but that’s the way it is.”

Before that, power play goals by Kirill Kaprizov and Zeev Buium helped the Wild overcome some long stretches where Nashville was the clear aggressor, as Minnesota improved to 5-6-3  overall and 2-0 in November after a messy opening month.

Filip Gustavsson finished with 32 saves for the Wild and is now 4-6-1 in his 11 starts this season.

“I feel like that game was like a little like a fruit salad,” Gustavsson said. “We’re good offensively, we’re bad defensively, and then we’re good defensively, and it was just, we couldn’t be really solid for the whole 60 minutes, but that’s how the game goes sometimes and two points is ours.”

Minnesota got the game’s first power play, barely two minutes into the game, but could not muster a shot on goal.

The Predators’ penalty kill had the best scoring chance while they were down a man, as Johansson’s turnover sprung Nashville winger Ozzy Wiesblatt on a breakaway from the blue line. But his low shot hit the goalpost.

The Wild’s second power play, near the midway point of the first, went much better. When the Predators left the middle of the offensive zone open for Kaprizov, he took a stride toward the net, then zipped a shot through a screen in front of Annunen. It was Kaprizov’s team-leading eighth goal of the season, and his third in the past four games.

The Wild’s improving penalty kill negated the team’s first trip to the penalty box early in the second period, only to see Nashville tie it up when the teams were back to five-on-five.

Matthew Wood, who averaged a point per game last season for the Gophers, found himself all alone in front of Gustavsson and got a tap-in for his third NHL goal. It was also Wood’s third goal in the past four games.

Nashville dominated the period for 15 minutes, drawing some boos from the home crowd, as the Wild looked off-kilter and needed Gustavsson to hold them in the game with 13 saves in the middle frame.

But a Predators penalty late in the second opened the door for the Wild to grab momentum, and they did with eight seconds left in the power play. This time it was Buium redirecting a feed from Brock Faber as Minnesota led for the second time.

Nashville outshot the Wild 14-4 in the second period.

“I think it was just our own doing. We weren’t playing to the competitive level we want to play at,” Buium said, of a second period he labeled “disconnected.”

With Annunen on the bench for an extra attacker and just seconds remaining, Joel Eriksson Ek’s clearing attempt hit the referee and stayed in the zone, setting up a last-second slap shot by Stamkos to tie the game.

“Their tying goal there late, you don’t see that too often,” Wild coach John Hynes said. “Obviously the way we scored on the three-on-three was a little bit crazy, but we’ll take it.”

Annunen finished with 22 saves for Nashville. For the Wild, getting a second win in a row seemed to be the bottom line, even if the road to two points was a treacherous one.

“Definitely we need all the points we can get. We need to start stacking wins,” said Johansson, lamenting that they were less than a second from winning in regulation. “It was tough to see that one go in. You’re going to get those kind of breaks, and we got a break back with that goal we scored. Big points for us, we need to keep building on this. We didn’t play perfect tonight, especially the second period we didn’t play the way we wanted to, but we found a way to win.”

It was the second night of back-to-back games for the Predators, who had a 5-4 overtime loss to Vancouver on Monday night in Nashville. The Wild and Predators will play three more times this season, with their next meeting coming on Dec. 23 at Grand Casino Arena.

After posting a 2-2-2 record in their now-concluded six-game homestand, the Wild head east for a pair of road games. They pay their only visit of the season to the Carolina Hurricanes on Thursday and to the New York Islanders on Friday.

Briefly

As a part of their on-going 25th anniversary celebration, the Wild honored three of their best-known puck-stoppers with former goalies Niklas Backstrom, Devan Dubnyk and Josh Harding conducting the ceremonial first faceoff before the game. Dubnyk and Harding have both made Minnesota their home in retirement, with the latter serving as the goalie coach at Edina High School.