After two impressive road wins last weekend pulled them within two points of a Western Conference playoff spot, the Wild came home and coughed up a pair of one-goal leads in a 3-2 loss to the Carolina Hurricanes on Tuesday at Xcel Energy Center.

Stefan Noesen scored the go-ahead goal when he deflected puck with his face into the net with 9 minutes, 58 seconds left in regulation, and Jordan Staal and Andrei Svechnikov scored game-tying goals in the first and second periods, respectively, as Carolina snapped a two-game losing streak.

Connor Dewar and Jonas Brodin scored to give the Wild one-goal leads in the first period, and Filip Gustavsson stopped 25 of 28 shots, but there was little he could do about the game-winner.

Noesen was crashing the net when a high shot by teammate Jack Drury crossed the crease on a high angle and caromed off his face back toward the net and past Gustavsson at 11:02. That made it 3-2 Hurricanes at 11:02, and Carolina made it stick.

The Wild lost in regulation for just the second time since returning from the all-star break on Feb. 7 (7-2-1).

Pyotr Kochetkov stopped 28 of 30 shots for Carolina.

Dewar broke the seal at the midpoint of the first period, receiving a pass from Declan Chisholm — who had earlier kept the puck in the zone with a pinch — in the slot, turned and fired and wrist shot that Kochetkov never saw for a 1-0 lead at 9:50.

The Hurricanes tied it 1-1 when Jordan Martinook threw a shot at Gustavsson from the point and Jordan Staal backhanded the rebound in shortside at 15:26.

Minnesota retook a lead late when Bradon Duhaime sent a shot toward the net and Brodin deflected it past Kochetkov to make it 2-1 with 20.3 seconds left in the first period.

The teams played to a standstill in the second period until the final 30 seconds, when the Wild twice failed to dump the puck for a change and instead turned the puck over to start a Hurricanes rush.

Kaprizov tried to skate into the Carolina zone but was intercepted by Jordan Staal, who forced a turnover. The puck wound up on the stick of Chisholm, but his dump attempt hit teammate Matt Boldy in the back.

Svechnikov picked up the puck and sent it ahead to Staal, who skated it into the zone before passing back to Seth Jarvis — who hit Svechnikov streaking to the net. He swept the puck wide of the net, but it hit Gustavsson’s pad and caromed into the net to make it 2-2 with 24.4 seconds left in the period.

It was a quick, unfortunate turn of events for the Wild, but entirely avoidable with a decent decision from the neutral zone.

The Wild came close to retaking the lead late in a power play early in the third period on a pair of plays by Ryan Hartman. He deflected a shot off the inside of the post and it deflected across the goal line but never crossed. The forward then sent a pass to Marco Rossi at the corner of the crease, but the center’s shot was stopped by Kechotkov.

Rossi left the ice after his left leg bent awkwardly in a collision with Jarvis in the corner of the Wild zone — Rossi was called for tripping on the play — midway through the third period. He tried to stretch out his leg before trainer John Worley came to the ice and led him down the tunnel, but he returned to finish the game.