Rapid Recap: Wild 4, Avalanche 3 (OT)

The Colorado Avalanche picked up a point in overtime but fell 4-3 to the Minnesota Wild in the second half of a back-to-back at Xcel Energy Center on Sunday night.
Jonas Brodin scored 18 seconds into overtime to get the win for the Wild. Victor Rask scored twice and Jordan Greenway had a goal and an assist for Minnesota.
Joonas Donskoi, Cale Makar and Brandon Saad each scored for Colorado. Nazem Kadri recorded his 400th NHL point in the contest with an assist on Brandon Saad's tally. Nathan MacKinnon had two helpers in the outing but left the game before the third period with a lower-body injury.

Colorado and Minnesota meet again on Tuesday as the four-game series shifts to Denver.
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THE GOALS

1st Period
4:33 COL (1-0) - Joonas Donskoi joined Nathan MacKinnon on the rush and finished MacKinnon's centering pass to score his fifth of the year.
16:19 MIN (1-1) - Jordan Greenway tied the game when he located a rebound and put it into the net.
2nd Period
1:28 MIN (1-2) - Victor Rask scored from the left circle after getting a cross-ice pass from Jared Spurgeon.
3:31 COL (2-2) - Cale Makar skated around a defender and into the slot and scored his first of the season with a wrist shot.
3rd Period
7:09 COL (3-2) - Nazem Kadri kept the puck in the offensive zone and passed the puck to Brandon Saad, who scored. Kadri's assist on the tally marked the 400th point of his career.
12:34 MIN (3-3) - Victor Rask scored his second of the night to tie the game.
Overtime
0:18 MIN (3-4) - Joonas Brodin scored with a one-timer from the slot.
Final: Wild - 4 | Avalanche - 3 (OT)

POWER PLAYS

Colorado: 0 for 4
Minnesota: 0 for 3

GOALTENDING BATTLE

Colorado: Hunter Miska made his second career NHL start and made 29 saves on 33 shots.
Minnesota: Cam Talbot allowed three goals on 25 shots.

STAT OF THE NIGHT

Nazem Kadri assisted on Brandon Saad's tally in the third period to record the 400th point of his NHL career. In 622 contests in the league with the Avs and Toronto Maple Leafs, the London, Ontario, native has 183 goals and 217 assists. So far this campaign, Kadri has three goals and four assists in 10 contests.

NOTEBOOK

Brandon Saad scored his fifth goal of the campaign to extend his point streak to four games. He had two points in each of the first three contests of this stretch and has seven points (four goals, three assists) in the four outings... Nathan MacKinnon collected two assists in the contest to extend his assist/point streak to five games. He has seven helpers in that span… Cale Makar and Joonas Donskoi each scored to extend their respective point streaks to four outings. Donskoi now has three goals and one assist in his stretch while Makar has a goal and five assists during the span… Colorado concluded its second back-to-back set of the season and is 1-0-1 when playing the second night in a row this year... Hunter Miska made his second career NHL start and first in his home state of Minnesota... Jacob MacDonald skated in his first game as a member of the Avalanche and his first NHL contest since Oct. 11, 2018 (with Florida)… The Avalanche went 3-for-3 on the penalty kill and has killed off 22 straight penalties.

BIG HIGHLIGHT

IMAGE OF THE GAME

ROSTER REPORT

The Avalanche used 17 skaters--11 forwards and six defensemen--instead of the traditional 18 due to salary cap restraints. Defenseman Jacob MacDonald played his first game as a member of the Avalanche and his third in the NHL. He skated in two contests with the Florida Panthers in 2018-19.

INJURY UPDATE

Nathan MacKinnon did not skate in the third period due to a lower-body injury. Erik Johnson missed the contest after suffering an upper-body injury in Saturday night's contest in Minnesota. They join forwards Pierre-Edouard Bellemare (lower body) and Matt Calvert (upper body), defenseman Devon Toews (lower body) and goaltender Pavel Francouz (lower body) on the Avalanche's injured list.

UP NEXT

The Avalanche and Wild will head to Denver to conclude their four-game series at Ball Arena on Tuesday and Thursday.

LINE COMBINATIONS

Based on start of the game
Forwards
92 Gabriel Landeskog - 29 Nathan MacKinnon - 96 Mikko Rantanen
20 Brandon Saad - 91 Nazem Kadri - 95 Andre Burakovsky
13 Valeri Nichushkin - 37 J.T. Compher - 72 Joonas Donskoi
25 Logan O'Connor - 17 Tyson Jost
Defensemen
4 Bowen Byram - 8 Cale Makar
27 Ryan Graves - 49 Samuel Girard
34 Jacob MacDonald - 22 Conor Timmins
Goaltenders
32 Hunter Miska
31 Philipp Grubauer