Nováčik Nathan MacKinnon sa dostal do brejku dve a pol minúty pred koncom tretej tretiny a vznikol z neho rozhodujúci gól. Colorado vyhralo doma tesne 5:4 nad Minnesotou, hoci do tretej tretiny vstupovalo s pohodlným vedením 4:1. Semion Varlamov urobil 31 zákrokov a vytvoril si nové maximum s 27. výhrami v ročníku.
O prvé štyri góly sa postarali Ryan O’Reilly, Paul Stastny, John Mitchell a Maxime Talbot. Z 23 striel ich inkasoval ich Darcy Kuemper, ktorého potom nahradil Niklas Backstrom. Ten urobil osem zákrokov. Zach Parise strelil dva góly a pridal dve asistencie, Mikael Granlund zaznamenal gól a dve asistencie a strelecky sa presadil aj dvojbodový Jason Pominville.
Sumár: Colorado — Minnesota 5:4 (1:1, 3:0, 1:3)
Góly: 5. O’Reilly (Duchene, McGinn), 22. Mitchell (Guenin, Duchene), 30. Stastny (Johnson, Landeskog), 36. Talbot (Mitchell, MacKinnon), 59. MacKinnon (Benoit, Barrie) — 7. Parise PP (Heatley, Suter), 48. Parise (Pominville, Granlund), 53. Granlund (Parise, Ballard), 58. Pominville (Granlund, Parise)
Tri hviezdy zápasu:
- John Mitchell, Col (1G, 1A)
- Matt Duchene, Col (2A)
- Zach Parise, Min (2G, 2A)
Highlighty:
Štatistiky hráčov Wild:
Hráč | G | A | +/- | Strely | TM | VV | VP | Ice-time | Bd | Bl | Str | SP | ZP |
Niklas Backstrom | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 22:25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Keith Ballard | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | – | 0 | 0 | 18:50 | 1 | 1 | 28 | 0 | 0 |
Jonas Brodin | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 2:00 | 0 | 0 | 26:56 | 1 | 0 | 35 | 0 | 1 |
Kyle Brodziak | 0 | 0 | -3 | 2 | 2:00 | 5 | 2 | 12:22 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 0 |
Matt Cooke | 0 | 0 | -3 | 1 | 12:00 | 1 | 0 | 11:29 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 1 | 0 |
Charlie Coyle | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | – | 7 | 9 | 17:40 | 3 | 1 | 24 | 0 | 1 |
Justin Fontaine | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 13:11 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 0 | 0 |
Mikael Granlund | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | – | 12 | 14 | 22:00 | 2 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 1 |
Erik Haula | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2:00 | 5 | 6 | 11:08 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 0 |
Dany Heatley | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 | – | 1 | 0 | 16:45 | 2 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 0 |
Darcy Kuemper | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 36:24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Torrey Mitchell | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2:00 | 0 | 0 | 6:28 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
Nino Niederreiter | 0 | 0 | -1 | 3 | – | 0 | 0 | 13:23 | 7 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 2 |
Zach Parise | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | – | 0 | 0 | 23:14 | 2 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 3 |
Jason Pominville | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | – | 2 | 1 | 22:35 | 1 | 0 | 28 | 0 | 1 |
Nate Prosser | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 5:00 | 0 | 0 | 13:33 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 1 |
Mike Rupp | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – | 0 | 0 | 5:07 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
Marco Scandella | 0 | 0 | -1 | 1 | – | 0 | 0 | 16:38 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 2 |
Clayton Stoner | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7:00 | 0 | 0 | 10:46 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 1 |
Ryan Suter | 0 | 1 | -1 | 3 | – | 0 | 0 | 31:06 | 0 | 4 | 39 | 0 | 0 |
Spolu: | 4 | 8 | – | 35 | 32:00 | 33 | 32 | – | 24 | 7 | 417 | 1 | 13 |
Štatistiky brankárov:
Tím | Brankár | Strely | Zákroky | Ice-time | Bilancia |
Minnesota Wild | Niklas Backstrom | 9 | 8 | 22:25 | 5-11 |
Minnesota Wild | Darcy Kuemper | 23 | 19 | 36:24 | 6-3 |
Colorado Avalanche | Semyon Varlamov | 35 | 31 | 60:00 | 27-9 |