He then assisted on Granlund’s goal at 12:51 that made it a one-score game. Parise’s goal at 7:47 of the third made it 4-2. “It could have been 6-, 7-1 if not for him.”īackstrom had nine stops the rest of the way, giving the Wild a chance to get back into it. He made some amazing saves on us,” Duchene said. “Kuemper played a pretty good game even though he got pulled. “I did it to try to change the momentum at that point.” “I let him know it wasn’t him,” Wild coach Mike Yeo said. We had tons of chances.”Ī minute later, Niklas Backstrom replaced Kuemper, who had 19 saves. We were cycling the puck, moving it quick.
“Offensively this is the best I’ve seen our team play. “We were so good the first two periods,” Roy said. Brodziak had gathered a rebound in front of goalie Darcy Kuemper when Talbot came in from behind and hit the center’s stick to put the puck in the net. Stastny scored his 16th of the season on a rebound midway through the period, and Talbot used the stick of Wild center Kyle Brodziak to make it 4-1 at 15:26. Mitchell broke a 1-1 tie with his sixth goal of the season at 1:43. The Avalanche used a big second period to help cool off the Wild. Zach Parise had two goals and two assists and Mikael Granlund and Jason Pominville also scored for Minnesota, which went 9-4-1 in January to get into the thick of the postseason race. “That puts us well ahead and we just have to keep taking care of business.” We have three games in hand and we’re up (nine) points in the standings,” Duchene said.
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