Tonight at 9:30 p.m. ET, the Minnesota Wild and Colorado Avalanche continue their best-of-seven Stanley Cup Playoffs Round 1 series in Game 2 action live from the Pepsi Center in Colorado. The game can be live streamed for free here. Minnesota fans can hear all of the action on WCCO 830 while Colorado fans can do the same on KRWZ 950.
Minnesota looks to even up the series before it shifts back to their home ice at Xcel Energy Center while Colorado hopes to take a 2-0 lead onto the road. The Avalanche notched a gutsy Game 1 win by coming from behind and eventually winning 5-4 in an overtime thriller.
The Wild have made some mistakes, but the team is prepared to fix them in Game 2.
"You're going to face adversity in the playoffs," Minnesota coach Mike Yeo told the Minneapolis Star Tribune. "We want to get on a run here, and any team that's going to have any kind of success in the playoffs, you're going to face adversity."
The Avalanche were victimized by the Wild getting pucks deep in the zone during Game 1 and first-year coach Patrick Roy believes that his team learned from their mistakes while also getting a win.
"It's good for our guys to learn in winning," Roy told NHL.com. "It's good for our confidence. It shows that what we're doing are the right things and it also gives us a bit of momentum. But I think it's a bit too early to say how much momentum it will give us."
Colorado will be getting leading scorer Matt Duchene back into the lineup after he missed Game 1. Paul Stastny was a hero for the Avalanche in on Thursday, tying the game with less than a minute left in regulation and then notching the overtime winner. Colorado also received goals from captain Gabriel Landeskog, Ryan O'Reilly and Jamie McGinn.
Wild goal-scorers included Charlie Coyle Ryan Suter, Erik Haula and Kyle Brodziak.
Semyon Varlamov made 29 saves and let up four goals for Colorado in the Game 1 win while Ilya Bryzgalov yielded five goals and turned aside 26 shots in the loss.
The Wild and Avalanche go head-to-head in Game 2 of their best-of-seven Stanley Cup Playoffs series when they clash tonight live from the Pepsi Center in Colorado.
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