Colorado Avalanche (55-16-11, in the Central Division) vs. Minnesota Wild (46-24-12, in the Central Division)<\/p>\n
Saint Paul, Minnesota; Saturday, 9 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
LINE: Avalanche -129, Wild +108; over\/under is 6.5<\/p>\n
NHL PLAYOFFS SECOND ROUND: Avalanche lead series 2-0<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Colorado Avalanche visit the Minnesota Wild in the second round of the NHL Playoffs with a 2-0 lead in the series. The teams meet Tuesday for the seventh time this season. The Avalanche won 5-2 in the last meeting.<\/p>\n
Minnesota has a 17-13-4 record in Central Division games and a 46-24-12 record overall. The Wild are 10th in league play with 268 total goals (averaging 3.3 per game).<\/p>\n
Colorado has gone 55-16-11 overall with an 18-5-5 record against the Central Division. The Avalanche have allowed 197 goals while scoring 298 for a +101 scoring differential.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Quinn Hughes has seven goals and 69 assists for the Wild. Matthew Boldy has six goals and four assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Nathan MacKinnon has 53 goals and 74 assists for the Avalanche. Artturi Lehkonen has scored four goals with three assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Wild: 5-4-1, averaging 3.7 goals, 5.8 assists, 4.9 penalties and 10.1 penalty minutes while giving up 3.3 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Avalanche: 9-0-1, averaging 3.5 goals, 5.8 assists, 3.9 penalties and 7.8 penalty minutes while giving up 1.8 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Wild: Jonas Brodin: out (lower body), Joel Eriksson Ek: out (lower-body), Zach Bogosian: day to day (lower body).<\/p>\n
Avalanche: Joel Kiviranta: out (undisclosed), Josh Manson: day to day (upper-body).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colorado Avalanche (55-16-11, in the Central Division) vs. Minnesota Wild (46-24-12, in the Central Division) Saint Paul, Minnesota;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5116],"tags":[2320,193,192,144,5277,5,499,1036,3647,1544,8813,161,38,517,4,292,1496,43,104,3703],"class_list":["post-569812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-colorado-avalanche","tag-artturi-lehkonen","tag-avalanche","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-avalanche","tag-coloradoavalanche","tag-hockey","tag-joel-eriksson-ek","tag-joel-kiviranta","tag-jonas-brodin","tag-josh-manson","tag-matthew-boldy","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-wild","tag-nathan-mackinnon","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-hockey","tag-quinn-hughes","tag-sports","tag-stanley-cup-playoffs","tag-zach-bogosian"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116538224389515231","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569812","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=569812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}