{"id":567856,"date":"2026-05-06T00:36:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T00:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/567856\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T00:36:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T00:36:38","slug":"game-blog-minnesota-wild-v-colorado-avalanche-game-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/567856\/","title":{"rendered":"GAME BLOG: Minnesota Wild V. Colorado Avalanche, Game 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DENVER \u2014\u00a0The Colorado Avalanche won the first matchup 9-6 in an all-time classic slugfest.<\/p>\n<p>What will happen tonight? Stay tuned!<\/p>\n<p>Martin Necas scored just 2:51 into the game when he fought off a pair of defenders and lifted a backhand to beat Gustavsson to give Colorado an early lead. However, Minnesota quickly responded back. In fact, it took just six seconds, when Kirill Kaprizov ripped a wrister by Wedgewood to tie it.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>As we approached the six-minute mark of the period, Devon Toews ripped a one-timer from the point off a slick pass from Nathan MacKinnon, but Gustavsson made the save. However, there was some brief confusion as Gustavsson wasn&#8217;t aware the puck was underneath of him prior to the referee blowing the whistle.<\/p>\n<p>A few minutes later, Minnesota forward Yakov Trenin went to the box for high-sticking Nic Roy. And it took just 15 seconds for the Avalanche to score on the power play when Nathan MacKinnon set up Gabe Landeskog for a blistering one-timer from the doorstep to give Colorado a 2-1 lead.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Image\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/600540b16e40d583ae5b091f8f010196.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Image<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER \u2014\u00a0The Colorado Avalanche won the first matchup 9-6 in an all-time classic slugfest. What will happen tonight?&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5116],"tags":[193,192,144,5277,1543,50792,5,537,513,161,517,4,2834],"class_list":["post-567856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-colorado-avalanche","tag-avalanche","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-avalanche","tag-coloradoavalanche","tag-devon-toews","tag-gustavsson","tag-hockey","tag-kirill-kaprizov","tag-martin-necas","tag-minnesota","tag-nathan-mackinnon","tag-nhl","tag-yakov-trenin"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116524836305942161","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}