Some of the issues that looked fixed two days ago in a decisive win against the Dallas Stars were again troubling for the Colorado Avalanche in a loss to the Minnesota Wild.
The Wild are bringing Kirill Kaprizov and Jared Spurgeon back from injuries as the NHL season reaches the home stretch.
With a little over a minute left in the second period, Colorado star Nathan MacKinnon made the Wild look silly when he deked Trenin and tied the game with his 18th goal of the season. It came on just the Avalanche's 11th shot on goal in two periods.
Ryan Boulding: Colorado Avalanche forward Valeri Nichushkin is ... to determine if he’s good to go against the Hurricanes. Kaprizov has been out for 12 games with a lower-body injury.
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Kaprizov has missed the past 10 games with a lower-body injury that has required lots of treatments and pushed-back timetables.
Yakov Trenin scored against his former team early in the third period, and the Minnesota Wild beat the Colorado Avalanche 3-1 on Monday ... including captain Jared Spurgeon and leading scorer Kirill Kaprizov, Minnesota played a solid road game after ...
For the second time in less than two weeks, the Colorado Avalanche had a chance ... MVP candidate Kirill Kaprizov, and two of their three best defensemen (Jared Spurgeon and Jonas Brodin) in ...
Without Kirill Kaprizov, Jonas Brodin and Jared Spurgeon, Minnesota played a smart, poised and gutsy game, pulling away in the third for a 3-1 victory at Ball Arena.
Yakov Trenin scored against his former team early in the third period, and the Minnesota Wild beat the Colorado Avalanche 3-1 on Monday. Jake Middleton had a goal and an assist, Brock Faber also scored and Marc-Andre Fleury made 26 saves for Minnesota.
MacKinnon is the most likely Avalanche player to take advantage of a Wild defense that is bleeding shots. Not only is he the best shot-generator on the team, but the Wild have allowed the second-most shots to centers in the NHL over the past few weeks.