In St Paul Tuesday, the Minnesota Wild extended their win streak to eight games with a 2-0 shutout of the Colorado Avalanche.
Devan Dubnyk pitched his fifth shutout of the year and made 18 saves in doing so.
“That was an impressive game by us all the way around,” Dubnyk said. “You look at the end of the game and that’s about the tale of the game: We just keep the puck in their end the last minute and a half or two minutes. That was a real good effort start to finish for us.”
In a tight division and conference, the Wild need every point they can get.
“We want to keep this streak going here,” Wild forward Charlie Coyle said. “It’s been our best hockey and we want to push these guys (Colorado) back down. We want to keep them there and kind of distance ourselves back up in the standings.
“We need these points right now. They’re going to be crucial down the road, so it’s a really big two for us.”
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Coyle and Mikko Koivu were the Wild goal scorers.
“We [have to] turn this around. We [have to] get mad at some point and decide that enough’s enough, and we don’t have enough of that right now through our lineup,” Matt Duchene said of the lackluster effort from the club. ” We [have to] have kind of that killer instinct I was talking about on the power play, we [have to] have that all the time. We had fits and starts tonight, but it’s just not enough.”
Semyon Varlamov made 31 saves in the loss that left the Avs at 11-19-1.
“I liked our energy and our competitiveness through the game. You’ve got to give Minnesota credit, they’re on top of their game right now. They’re skating hard. They’re checking hard. They don’t make a bunch of mistakes,” Avs head coach Jared Bednar said. “You know, it’s hard for everyone to come in here and produce. We know our history; we’ve been struggling all year to create offense.
“We felt like we were still one shot away from getting back into that game and giving ourselves a chance, especially the way [Varlamov] was playing. Unfortunately, tonight that just didn’t happen.”
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