Colorado 5, Minnesota 2
Coloraod Leads Series 2-0
After the Colorado Avalanche claimed Game 1 over the Minnesota Wild in a bonkers 9-6 showdown, the insanity was dialed back considerably on Tuesday night. The end result, however, was exactly the same.
Martin Necas got the scoring started for the home team, taking a feed from Nathan MacKinnon and darting through the middle of the offensive zone. He then placed a nifty backhand behind Filip Gustavsson, who got the starting nod over rookie Jesper Wallstedt after Wallstedt allowed eight goals on Sunday night.
MARTIN NECAS OPENS THE SCORING IN GAME 2 🔥 pic.twitter.com/kNKGiqdv0f
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Just six seconds later, Kirill Kaprizov made his presence felt. He seamlessly went skate-to-stick on a blue-line entry and leveled the score at one apiece with a crafty wrist shot—his third goal of the postseason. Less than six minutes after that, Colorado’s hot-and-cold power play broke the tie when MacKinnon fed captain Gabriel Landeskog in the slot for a quick tap-in past Gustavsson.
Neither team found the back of the net again until the second period. That's when trade deadline acquisition Nicolas Roy showed why general manager Chris MacFarland moved a first-round pick for him, tallying a goal to give Colorado a two-goal cushion.
MacKinnon put the game out of reach with a one-time blast on the power play with 6:42 to go in the third, making it 4-1 and securing his third point of the night. Marcus Johansson got the Wild within two shortly after, but Minnesota could draw no closer before Valeri Nichushkin hit the empty net from long range in the dying seconds to seal the 5-2 victory.