No. 2 Colorado Avalanche Vs. No. 7 Minnesota Wild
Game 1: Thursday, at Colorado, 8:30 p.m., FSN
Game 2: Saturday, at Colorado, 8:30 p.m., FSN
Game 3: Monday, at Minnesota, 6 p.m., FSN
Game 4: Thursday, April 24, at Minnesota, 8:30 p.m., FSN
Game 5: Saturday, April 26, at Colorado, if necessary, time, TV TBA
Game 6: Monday, April 28, at Minnesota, if necessary, time, TV TBA
Game 7: Wednesday, April 30, at Colorado, if necessary, time, TV TBA
Records: Avalanche 52-22-8; Wild 43-27-12
Home: Avalanche 26-11-4; Wild 26-10-5
Away: Avalanche 26-11-4; Wild 17-17-7
Season-series: Avalanche won 4-0-1
Goals for: Avalanche 245 (2.99, fourth in NHL); Wild 199 (2.43, 24th)
Goals against: Avalanche 216 (2.63, 15th); Wild 198 (2.42, seventh)
Shots for: Avalanche 29.5 (20th); Wild 26.6 (29th)
Shots against: Avalanche 32.7 (25th); Wild 27 .7 (fifth)
Power play: Avalanche 19.8 percent (fifth); Wild 17.9 percent (16th)
Penalty kill: Avalanche 80.7 percent (24th); Wild 78.8 percent (27th)
Goals: Colorado — Ryan O'Reilly 28, Gabriel Landeskog 26; Wild — Jason Pominville 30, Zach Parise 29
Assists: Colorado — Matt Duchene 47, Landeskog and Nathan MacKinnon 39; Wild — Mikko Koivu 43, Ryan Suter 35
Points: Colorado — Duchene 70, Landeskog 65; Wild — Pominville 60, Parise 56
Power-play goals: Colorado — O'Reilly 9; Wild — Parise 14
Time on ice: Colorado — Erik Johnson 23:00; Wild — Suter 29:24
Colorado: Semyon Varlamov — 41-14-6, 2.41 goals-against average, .927 save percentage, two shutouts
Wild: Ilya Bryzgalov — 7-1-3, 2.12 goals-against average, 911 save percentage, three shutouts
The Wild’s Brock Faber played in the 2022 Games in Beijing when he was still at the University of Minnesota and NHL players stayed at home. In 2026, he’s back.
