Overview
- Colorado's 5-2 win in Saint Paul on Monday put the Avalanche up 3-1 in the second round and set up a potential clincher in Game 5 on Wednesday in Denver.
- Coach Jared Bednar started Mackenzie Blackwood for his first appearance of this postseason and he stopped 19 shots in the victory.
- Parker Kelly netted his first NHL playoff goal at 11:32 of the third period and it stood as the game-winner.
- Nathan MacKinnon took a puck to the face late in the second period, returned for the third, and sealed the result with an empty-netter.
- The NHL fined defenseman Josh Manson $5,000 for a first-period butt-end on Michael McCarron, while Minnesota will be without Joel Eriksson Ek and Jonas Brodin for Game 5 and Colorado lists Artturi Lehkonen and Sam Malinski as day-to-day after missing Game 4.