Game

Wild at Avalanche

Avalanche 3, Wild 2 in a shootout · first star Scott Wedgewood (0 GA, .941 SV%).

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

Minnesota Wild 2 at Colorado Avalanche 3

Wild MIN

2 FINAL/SO 3

Avalanche COL

Sunday, March 8, 2026 · 2:00 PM ET · Ball Arena, Denver · TV TNT · truTV · HBO MAX

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	1OT	SO	T	SOG
Wild	0	0	2	0	0	2	34
Avalanche	0	1	1	0	1	3	36

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 1 mark in a team's own end is an attempt logged from there: empty-net shots, long dumps on the net. Boxscore shots on goal: MIN 34, COL 36.

MIN in red COL in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Wild 34 shots on goal (2 goals, 16 missed, 15 blocked) attacking left; Avalanche 36 shots on goal (2 goals, 21 missed, 23 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	9	0	18	14	0	32
2nd	15	0	25	12	1	22
3rd	9	2	17	8	1	21
OT	1	0	5	2	0	5
Total	34	2	65	36	2	80

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	27	0	26	2
Power play	6	1	10	0
Short-handed	1	1	0	0

Attempt share by period

Avalanche took 55.2% of the shot attempts, and 49.0% of the 98 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	64.0	61.1
2nd	46.8	48.6
3rd	55.3	48.1
OT	50.0	57.1
Game	55.2	53.3

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

Scoring summary

2nd period

12:19 Nathan MacKinnon (43) Nazem Kadri (30) · snap 0–1

3rd period

04:17 Kirill Kaprizov (36) PP Quinn Hughes (57), Joel Eriksson Ek (26) · wrist 1–1
07:01 Nico Sturm (4) SH Brock Faber (28) · wrist 2–1
12:39 Nicolas Roy (6) Brett Kulak (10), Joel Kiviranta (6) · tip-in 2–2

Shootout

00:00 Nathan MacKinnon Unassisted · wrist 2–3

Three stars

Scott Wedgewood COL · G #41 · 0 GA, .941 SV%
Jesper Wallstedt MIN · G #30 · 0 GA, .944 SV%
Nathan MacKinnon COL · C #29 · 1 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	01:20	MIN	Quinn Hughes	cross checking	2	Valeri Nichushkin
1st	06:57	MIN	Zach Bogosian	hooking	2	Josh Manson
2nd	00:43	MIN	Ryan Hartman	high sticking	2	Nazem Kadri
2nd	04:28	COL	Nicolas Roy	high sticking	2	Zach Bogosian
3rd	04:13	COL	Ross Colton	slashing	2	Ryan Hartman
3rd	05:17	MIN	Yakov Trenin	slashing	2	Cale Makar
3rd	09:29	MIN	Kirill Kaprizov	slashing	2	Cale Makar
3rd	14:58	COL	Valeri Nichushkin	slashing	2	Kirill Kaprizov
Overtime	03:57	COL	Nathan MacKinnon	interference	2	Ryan Hartman

Boxscore

Minnesota Wild

Wild skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Nico Sturm #78	C	1	0	1	+1	1	2	1	0	100.0	07:47
Kirill Kaprizov #97	L	1	0	1	-2	4	1	0	2	0.0	22:41
Joel Eriksson Ek #14	C	0	1	1	0	1	0	4	0	58.8	21:34
Brock Faber #7	D	0	1	1	-1	1	0	1	0	0.0	28:14
Quinn Hughes #43	D	0	1	1	-2	0	0	1	2	0.0	26:48
Michael McCarron #47	C	0	0	0	0	3	2	3	0	66.7	10:44
Yakov Trenin #13	C	0	0	0	0	1	4	0	2	50.0	15:03
Matt Boldy #12	L	0	0	0	0	4	3	0	0	100.0	22:26
Nick Foligno #71	L	0	0	0	+1	1	1	0	0	50.0	09:00
Bobby Brink #10	R	0	0	0	0	1	1	3	0	0.0	12:52
Danila Yurov #22	R	0	0	0	0	4	3	1	0	28.6	12:39
Mats Zuccarello #36	R	0	0	0	-2	3	0	0	0	0.0	17:48
Ryan Hartman #38	R	0	0	0	-2	2	3	1	2	60.0	17:30
Vladimir Tarasenko #91	R	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	0.0	14:36
Jake Middleton #5	D	0	0	0	+1	0	2	0	0	0.0	17:48
Jared Spurgeon #46	D	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0.0	17:48
Jonas Brodin #25	D	0	0	0	0	2	0	4	0	0.0	17:53
Zach Bogosian #24	D	0	0	0	0	2	2	1	2	0.0	13:23

Wild goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jesper Wallstedt #30	O	36	34	2	.944	24/26	10/10	64:29

Colorado Avalanche

Avalanche skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Nathan MacKinnon #29	C	1	0	1	+1	9	0	0	2	37.5	22:29
Nicolas Roy #10	C	1	0	1	+1	3	0	0	2	45.5	12:16
Nazem Kadri #91	C	0	1	1	+1	5	3	1	0	50.0	21:47
Joel Kiviranta #94	L	0	1	1	+1	2	2	1	0	0.0	13:11
Brett Kulak #27	D	0	1	1	+1	0	1	0	0	0.0	18:04
Brock Nelson #11	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	50.0	24:06
Gavin Brindley #54	C	0	0	0	-1	1	0	1	0	0.0	10:05
Jack Drury #18	C	0	0	0	+1	0	3	0	0	28.6	14:58
Martin Necas #88	C	0	0	0	+1	6	1	0	0	0.0	25:01
Parker Kelly #17	C	0	0	0	0	0	4	2	0	100.0	14:06
Ross Colton #20	C	0	0	0	-1	2	4	0	2	50.0	12:41
Zakhar Bardakov #93	C	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0.0	06:12
Valeri Nichushkin #13	R	0	0	0	-1	1	0	0	2	0.0	15:42
Brent Burns #84	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	5	0	0.0	18:41
Cale Makar #8	D	0	0	0	+1	0	1	1	0	0.0	25:00
Devon Toews #7	D	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0.0	25:43
Josh Manson #42	D	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	0	0.0	14:14
Sam Malinski #70	D	0	0	0	+1	2	0	0	0	0.0	17:44

Avalanche goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Scott Wedgewood #41	W	34	32	2	.941	27/27	5/6	63:56

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.