National Hockey League
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Colorado 4, Minnesota 2
Monday, December 26, 2011 6:00 PM
When: 6:00 PM ET, Monday, December 26, 2011
Where: Xcel Energy Center, Saint Paul, Minnesota
Referees: Dean Morton, Ryan Galloway
Linesmen: Chris Lee, Brian Mach
Attendance: 19290
Final Scoring Summary
 
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Colorado 0224
Minnesota 1102
Scoring/Penalty Summary
1st Period
Scoring
9:31 - Wild Pierre-Marc Bouchard (PP) Assists: Dany Heatley , Kyle Brodziak
Penalties
0:37 - Avalanche Shane O'Brien (2) Interference
 3:04 - Wild Nick Johnson (2) Tripping
 5:22 - Avalanche Cody McLeod (5) Checking from behind
 5:22 - Avalanche Cody McLeod (10) Game misconduct
 17:46 - Avalanche Jan Hejda (2) Holding
2nd Period
Scoring
10:34 - Avalanche Ryan O'Reilly (PP) Assists: Matt Duchene
12:00 - Wild Cal Clutterbuck (EV) Assists: Mikko Koivu , Dany Heatley
18:58 - Avalanche Gabriel Landeskog (EV) Assists: David Van der Gulik , T.J. Galiardi
Penalties
4:14 - Wild Dany Heatley (2) Holding
 6:11 - Avalanche Gabriel Landeskog (2) Goaltender interference
 9:22 - Wild Nick Schultz (2) Hooking
 16:27 - Wild Darroll Powe (2) Hooking
3rd Period
Scoring
10:20 - Avalanche Jan Hejda (EV) Assists: Ryan O'Reilly , David Van der Gulik
13:06 - Avalanche T.J. Galiardi (EV) Assists: Jan Hejda
Penalties
1:52 - Avalanche Matt Hunwick (2) Hooking
 6:13 - Wild Jarod Palmer (2) Interference
 10:33 - Wild Kyle Brodziak (2) Tripping
 15:33 - Wild Matt Cullen (2) Tripping
Colorado Avalanche
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG TOI
Semyon Varlamov G 0 0 0 0 0 60:00
Jean-Sebastien Giguere G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00
Ryan O'Byrne D 0 0 0 +3 0 0 20:02
Shane O'Brien D 0 0 0 E 2 0 17:42
Erik Johnson D 0 0 0 -1 0 3 21:36
David Van der Gulik LW 0 2 2 +2 0 1 8:24
Jan Hejda D 1 1 2 +2 2 1 18:38
Matt Duchene C 0 1 1 E 0 5 19:20
Kevin Porter C 0 0 0 E 0 1 8:15
Jay McClement C 0 0 0 +1 0 1 16:26
Matt Hunwick D 0 0 0 E 2 1 15:13
Milan Hejduk RW 0 0 0 E 0 2 20:01
Paul Stastny C 0 0 0 E 0 1 20:09
Daniel Winnik LW 0 0 0 E 0 3 17:35
Ryan O'Reilly C 1 1 2 E 0 4 22:21
T.J. Galiardi LW 1 1 2 +2 0 4 15:01
Brad Malone C 0 0 0 E 0 0 9:00
Stefan Elliott D 0 0 0 E 0 4 18:30
Cody McLeod LW 0 0 0 E 15 0 0:19
Gabriel Landeskog LW 1 0 1 +1 2 1 18:28
Minnesota Wild
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG TOI
Niklas Backstrom G 0 0 0 0 0 59:17
Josh Harding G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00
Mike Lundin D 0 0 0 E 0 0 18:13
Marek Zidlicky D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 21:52
Marco Scandella D 0 0 0 -2 0 1 27:09
Matt Cullen C 0 0 0 -2 2 1 18:49
Mikko Koivu C 0 1 1 +1 0 3 23:32
Darroll Powe C 0 0 0 -1 2 1 13:24
Dany Heatley LW 0 2 2 E 2 2 19:41
Brad Staubitz RW 0 0 0 E 0 0 4:14
Colton Gillies LW 0 0 0 E 0 0 5:26
Kyle Brodziak C 0 1 1 E 2 2 21:49
Cal Clutterbuck RW 1 0 1 E 0 2 19:09
Nick Johnson RW 0 0 0 E 2 3 10:22
Warren Peters C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 11:17
Justin Falk D 0 0 0 E 0 1 21:54
Jared Spurgeon D 0 0 0 E 0 0 2:15
Nick Schultz D 0 0 0 -1 2 1 21:01
Jarod Palmer C 0 0 0 -1 2 0 11:18
Pierre-Marc Bouchard C 1 0 1 -2 0 3 16:08
Goaltending
Colorado
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Semyon Varlamov W (11-13-1) 22 20 2 .909 0 60:00
Minnesota
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Niklas Backstrom L (11-9-4) 32 28 4 .875 0 59:17