In St Paul, Victor Rask‘s second goal of the game rallied the Minnesota Wild from a 2-3 deficit to tie the Colorado Avalanche just past the midway point of the third period on Sunday evening..
The two clubs took the game to extra time tied at 3-3.
Jonas Brodin made short work of the extra session when scored 18 seconds in, for a 4-3 Wild win.
“It’s awesome,” Brodin said. “I mean, always when somebody gets to score in OT, it’s fun because it’s awesome. I don’t know, I can’t really describe the feeling. But I was definitely happy.”
Cam Talbot made 22 saves in the win in his return from injury.
“Coming back after nine days off, no practices, and just jumping in against an offense like that is never easy,” Talbot said. “You can’t give that team any more goals than they need because they can pretty much score at will out there.
“Any time you can come up with a big save, you keep the game within reach early, that’s all I was trying to do, focus on that and make that next save to settle myself down and gain some confidence moving forward throughout the game.”
Brandon Saad, Joonas Donskoi and Cale Makar were the Avs’ strikers.
“It’s nice and a good relief to get that, but tough to not get the win today,” Makar said.
Jordan Greenway also scored for the Wild in regulation.
“It definitely felt good for the confidence,” Rask said. “First goal was obviously a real good pass by [Spurgeon] … it was nice to get that one. The second one, I just tried to get it on net, and luckily it went in.” 
Hunter Miska made 29 saves in the loss.
Nathan MacKinnon left the game in the second period with a lower body injury.
“It is what it is,” the Avs’ Gabriel Landeskog said. “Better to go through it now than in May and June in the playoffs. … We’ll figure this out and keep working. There’s no other way to answer this than we’re going to keep working.”
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