Game

Wild at Avalanche

Wild 5, Avalanche 2 · first star Filip Gustavsson (0 GA, .978 SV%).

2025-26 regular season · Preseason. The 2026-27 regular season starts Sep 29. Data as of September 28, 2026, source NHL.

Minnesota Wild 5 at Colorado Avalanche 2

Wild MIN

5 FINAL 2

Avalanche COL

Thursday, February 26, 2026 · 9:00 PM ET · Ball Arena, Denver · TV SNP · TVAS

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Wild	0	2	3	5	36
Avalanche	0	1	1	2	47

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Wild attack left, Avalanche attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 5 marks in a team's own end are attempts logged from there: empty-net shots, long dumps on the net; 2 empty-net goals are drawn as diamonds. Boxscore shots on goal: MIN 36, COL 47.

MIN in red COL in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Wild 36 shots on goal (5 goals, 16 missed, 12 blocked) attacking left; Avalanche 47 shots on goal (2 goals, 20 missed, 15 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	MIN SOG	MIN G	MIN ATT	COL SOG	COL G	COL ATT
1st	10	0	19	13	0	26
2nd	17	2	33	14	1	23
3rd	9	3	12	20	1	33
Total	36	5	64	47	2	82

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	MIN SOG	MIN G	COL SOG	COL G
Even strength	21	2	38	2
Power play	13	2	6	0
Short-handed	2	1	3	0
Into an empty net	2	2	0	0

Attempt share by period

Avalanche took 56.2% of the shot attempts, and 63.7% of the 102 attempts taken at 5-on-5. An attempt is a goal, a shot on goal, a miss or a blocked shot; CF% is the share of them belonging to the Avalanche and FF% their share of the ones that were not blocked, so the Wild hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Wild at Avalanche
Period	COL CF%	COL FF%
1st	57.8	56.8
2nd	41.1	39.5
3rd	73.3	74.4
Game	56.2	56.3

Team totals only: per-player on-ice numbers need shift data, which this source does not publish.

Scoring summary

2nd period

07:48 Joel Eriksson Ek (16) PP Matt Boldy (31), Kirill Kaprizov (39) · snap 1–0
13:30 Martin Necas (24) Nathan MacKinnon (54), Josh Manson (21) · wrist 1–1
17:37 Joel Eriksson Ek (17) PP Matt Boldy (32), Quinn Hughes (53) · wrist 2–1

3rd period

15:08 Mats Zuccarello (10) Ryan Hartman (13), Kirill Kaprizov (40) · wrist 3–1
16:38 Matt Boldy (33) SH EN Unassisted · wrist 4–1
19:03 Martin Necas (25) Nathan MacKinnon (55), Gabriel Landeskog (17) · snap 4–2
19:28 Matt Boldy (34) EN Brock Faber (25), Jake Middleton (13) · wrist 5–2

Three stars

Filip Gustavsson MIN · G #32 · 0 GA, .978 SV%
Matt Boldy MIN · L #12 · 2 G, 2 A
Joel Eriksson Ek MIN · C #14 · 2 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	04:41	MIN	Daemon Hunt	hooking	2	Brock Nelson
1st	09:38	COL	Josh Manson	roughing	2	Joel Eriksson Ek
1st	12:03	COL	Gabriel Landeskog	slashing	2	Ryan Hartman
2nd	06:49	COL	Cale Makar	slashing	2	Yakov Trenin
2nd	14:15	COL	Gabriel Landeskog	elbowing	2	Joel Eriksson Ek
2nd	15:04	COL	Valeri Nichushkin	cross checking	2	Matt Boldy
2nd	15:08	COL	Brent Burns	delaying game	2	—
3rd	12:36	MIN	Nico Sturm	tripping	2	Ross Colton
3rd	16:12	MIN	Danila Yurov	tripping	2	Brett Kulak

Boxscore

Minnesota Wild

Wild skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Matt Boldy #12	L	2	2	4	+2	10	0	0	0	100.0	22:42
Joel Eriksson Ek #14	C	2	0	2	0	5	0	0	0	32.1	21:12
Kirill Kaprizov #97	L	0	2	2	+2	3	2	0	0	0.0	21:04
Mats Zuccarello #36	R	1	0	1	+1	2	2	0	0	0.0	18:32
Ryan Hartman #38	R	0	1	1	+1	1	1	2	0	56.2	15:02
Brock Faber #7	D	0	1	1	+3	4	0	1	0	0.0	25:44
Jake Middleton #5	D	0	1	1	+2	1	1	1	0	0.0	18:58
Quinn Hughes #43	D	0	1	1	+1	4	0	1	0	0.0	26:12
Nico Sturm #78	C	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	25.0	09:04
Vinnie Hinostroza #18	C	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	0.0	06:20
Yakov Trenin #13	C	0	0	0	-1	1	7	0	0	0.0	13:45
Marcus Foligno #17	L	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	0	0.0	09:55
Marcus Johansson #90	L	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.0	15:53
Danila Yurov #22	R	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	2	11.1	13:51
Vladimir Tarasenko #91	R	0	0	0	-2	1	0	0	0	0.0	13:15
Daemon Hunt #48	D	0	0	0	-2	0	2	1	2	0.0	09:07
Jared Spurgeon #46	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0.0	18:17
Zach Bogosian #24	D	0	0	0	-2	0	4	2	0	0.0	15:14

Wild goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Filip Gustavsson #32	W	45	44	1	.978	35/36	6/6	58:49
Jesper Wallstedt #30	—	2	1	1	.500	1/2	0/0	01:04

Colorado Avalanche

Avalanche skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Martin Necas #88	C	2	0	2	0	7	3	0	0	0.0	24:21
Nathan MacKinnon #29	C	0	2	2	0	8	0	0	0	66.7	23:21
Gabriel Landeskog #92	L	0	1	1	0	2	4	0	4	64.3	21:44
Josh Manson #42	D	0	1	1	+1	2	2	2	2	0.0	15:55
Brock Nelson #11	C	0	0	0	-1	4	0	0	0	57.9	21:20
Gavin Brindley #54	C	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	06:52
Jack Drury #18	C	0	0	0	0	2	2	1	0	77.8	13:08
Parker Kelly #17	C	0	0	0	-1	0	4	2	0	60.0	13:24
Ross Colton #20	C	0	0	0	0	3	4	0	0	100.0	10:50
Artturi Lehkonen #62	L	0	0	0	-2	2	0	0	0	0.0	15:06
Joel Kiviranta #94	L	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	05:12
Victor Olofsson #95	L	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	08:05
Valeri Nichushkin #13	R	0	0	0	-1	3	2	1	2	0.0	15:31
Brent Burns #84	D	0	0	0	0	4	0	5	2	0.0	14:39
Brett Kulak #27	D	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0.0	16:33
Cale Makar #8	D	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	2	0.0	26:45
Devon Toews #7	D	0	0	0	-1	3	0	0	0	0.0	25:23
Sam Malinski #70	D	0	0	0	-1	3	0	0	0	0.0	14:31

Avalanche goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Mackenzie Blackwood #39	L	34	31	3	.912	19/20	11/13	56:59

SOG shots on goal · BLK blocked shots · FO% faceoff win percentage · EV / PP saves over shots by strength. Skaters sorted by points, then goals.

Source NHL (boxscore, play-by-play, game summary). Shot locations are the league's tracked coordinates; the chart and the situation tables are computed by Play-Pause Hockey. Data as of 2026-09-28.