Morning Flurries: Avalanche fall 3-1 in Minnesota

Brace Hemmelgarn-USA TODAY Sports A young Colorado Avalanche roster accompanied head coach Jared Bednar to Minnesota to take on the Wild for preseason game number three and it showed. The Minnesota Wild electing to play basically their opening night roster in front of their home crowd handily won the game by a 3-1 score. There was no legal, or otherwise, video coverage available so the radio and various stat tracking websites was the best offered to Avalanche fans to follow this contest.

The game was scoreless through the opening period but the Wild held the edge in shots. Minnesota goals bookended the second period and then they added a third for good measure early in the third period. But…