Colorado at Minnesota

Colorado has won the past four meetings and six of seven and the Avalanche currently have won seven of their past nine games although they do come off a 3-1 loss at Chicago last night. Trent Miner made his first NHL start and stopped 17 of 20 shots for Colorado, but he didn't get much help on the offensive side. Mackenzie Blackwood will be back between the pipes tonight with a 2.58 goals-against average and a .917 save percentage overall and he is 7-1-1 with a 1.69 GAA and a .938 save percentage since joining the Avalanche in midseason. They will try to snap Minnesota's four-game win streak and the Wild are 0-6 as home underdogs of +110 to +150 and 1-4 as underdogs with those odds overall. Colorado has won five in a row against teams that scored at least five goals their previous game. Take the Avalanche.