nhl Game Recap
Colorado Skates Past Minnesota 4-3 - Recap
Colorado earned a 4-3 victory over Minnesota on Monday, but needed a shootout to do it at Ball Arena.
Colorado was favored by -243 and came through for bettors backing them. The game went OVER the consensus closing total of 6.5.
Colorado got goals from Mikko Rantanen, Alex Newhook, and Nathan MacKinnon in the victory. Rantanen opened the scoring at 15:57 of the first period.
Pavel Francouz stopped 25 of 27 Minnesota shots in the victory.
Minnesota got goals from Kirill Kaprizov(2), and Kevin Fiala in the loss, but it wasn't enough.
Minnesota got a 35-stop effort from Kaapo Kahkonen in the loss.
On the power play, Colorado went 1-for-4, while the Wild were 0-for-2 with the man advantage.
Colorado lost the shots on goal battle to Minnesota by a margin of 40-38.
Next game, Colorado takes its act on the road to face Anaheim looking for another win. For Minnesota, they head on the road to face Chicago.