In St Paul, the Minnesota Wild rebounded after surrendering a 2-0 lead with a goal midway through the third period by Jason Zucker who potted a rebound for the lead and the 3-2 win over the visiting Colorado Avalanche.
“We’ve been playing pretty good now for a length of time,” Wild coach Bruce Boudreau said. “If we could ever put a little run together while we’re doing all these road games, I’m hoping we’re going to be pretty successful when we start getting a lot of home games in a row. So we’ll see how it goes.”
The Wild are 3-0-1 in their last four.
Alex Stalock made 25 saves to get the win.
“We’ve always felt that we’ve had a good team,” Ryan Suter said. “We’ve been close but for whatever reason, different things for each game, we’ve found ways to lose and now everyone’s chipping in, doing the right thing, we’re getting solid goaltending. It’s contagious.”
Cale Makar scored both Avs to rally them back from the two-goal hole.
“He’s a difference-maker for us tonight again,” Avalanche coach Jared Bednar said. “We had some horses tonight. I was overplaying a handful of guys because they were going. We need everybody going, especially with some of the guys we have out of the lineup. We need guys pulling their weight, and I don’t think we had that tonight. We’ve had it, and tonight we just didn’t. We’ll review it and move onto the next one.”
Mats Zuccarello and Jordan Greenway also scored for Minnesota.
“I think we did everything we could tonight, but everyone did,” Greenway said. “I think everyone played a good game.”
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Philipp Grubauer made 28 saves in the loss.
“I didn’t like our execution,” Bednar said. “I just thought we had more than a handful of guys that just weren’t good tonight. I think we worked and we competed. We tried to scratch and claw our way back into that, did a nice job in the second half of the second period earning enough chances to tie the game, but probably too little too late. You’ve got to play 60 minutes to win in this League, and not that we weren’t trying to play hard, but I just thought decision making and execution was poor.”
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