Minnesota at Colorado

Colorado dominated the first period last night. Minnesota was lucky to get out of that period with just one goal scored on Backstrom. The Avs went into the third period with a 1-0 lead but couldn't hold on to get the “W”. Ultimately the game went into overtime at 2-2. The overtime was simply taken over by the Wild. Theodore played absolutely fantastic but the Avs could not weather the storm and Bouchard put a wrister past Theodore to take game 3. A very tightly-contested battle that gave the Avs a rare home loss. Tonight things should be different. The Avs will come out hungry and should bury some early goals. No doubt about this will again be a tightly-contested game, but we think the Avs' advantage is being at home and coming off a tough loss.