POSTGAME NOTES & QUOTES WILD 5, 2 JANUARY 23, 2019

First Star TEAM NOTES Eric Staal (2g, 1a) The Avs are now 1-2-0 against the Wild this season with one more game remaining in the 2018-19 series, on March 19 at Minnesota. Second Star Ryan Suter (1g, 1a) The Avalanche finished 1-for-2 on the power play and is now 4-for- 15 (26.7%) with the man advantage over their last four games. Over- Third Star all, Colorado is 47-for-187 (25.1%) on the power play this season, the Carl Soderberg (1g) sixth-ranked unit in the league.

INDIVIDUAL NOTES TEAM STATS Carl Soderberg reached a new career high with his 17th of the Avalanche season, surpassing his previous career high of 16 set both last season and in 2013-14 with Boston. He has tallied eight points (6g, 2a) over his Shots: 22 last eight outings and is tied with Mikko Rantanen for the team lead in goals in the month of January (6). Power Play: 1-2 Tyson Barrie notched his sixth goal of the season and the 67th of his Penalty Kill: 4-6 career. He’s just one goal shy of matching John-Michael Liles for sec- ond on the franchise’s all-time list of goals by a defenseman. Barrie’s Faceoffs: 55% 39 points in 2018-19 is tied for seventh among NHL blueliners.

Minnesota Mikko Rantanen tallied an assist and now has 74 points (23g, 51a) this season, ranked second in the league behind Tampa Bay’s Nikita Shots: 28 Kucherov (78 points). His 74 points is the most by any Avalance player before the All-Star Break, surpassing Joe Sakic’s 72 points in 2000-01. Power Play: 2-6 Matt Calvert tallied an assist and has recorded seven points (2g, 5a) Penalty Kill: 1-2 over his last 10 outings.

Faceoffs: 45% Patrik Nemeth matched a career high with six hits (also: Dec. 19, 2018 vs. Montreal).

Nikita Zadorov played a season-high 25:53. Next Practice Friday, Feb. 1, 2019 11 a.m. Family Sports Center POSTGAME NOTES & QUOTES 5, COLORADO AVALANCHE 2 JANUARY 23, 2019

QUOTES Colorado LW Gabriel Landeskog On The Avs’ Performance: “Obviously, we’re not making any excuses, believe me, we need a whole lot better from everybody to win hockey games, but it’s unfortunate when they get two 5-on-3s and they miss that one. It ends up in the back of the net unfortunately. We need to be better. We have two leads to begin the game and we can’t build on them.”

On Playing Against Minnesota: “Usually we play good against them and I thought we did tonight too for two periods, and then there was nothing in the third for us. We weren’t able to get goals, we weren’t able to generate any shots. Wild fans or not in the building, it doesn’t really matter to me. It’s a division matchup and we have to be able to win these.”

Colorado C Carl Soderberg On Tonight’s Game: “We have to look at it. Obviously, they get the third goal and then we have to chase in the third and give up some chances.”

On The Timing Of The Break: “I think it doesn’t really matter. Maybe it’s good for us to get a break and forget about all of the losses and come back fresh hopefully. But at the same time, I think we just have to dig in and play a little bit better and that’s what we want to do.”

Minnesota C Mikko Koivu On Shot Blocking: “We talked about it at intermission. Seels (Minnesota D Nick Seeler) first and then Marcus (Minnesota LW Marcus Foligno) as well in the same shift, so I think the message in the room was just, if that doesn’t get you going as a team and as a player, I don’t think there’s nothing better than that. For sure that was a booster for the third period and brought this team together tonight.”

On Scoring After The Blocked Shots: “Well that’s why we scored. We block those shots and we go the other way and we score. No one thinks about it that way, but that’s the story of the last two minutes there.”

Minnesota D Nick Seeler On His Shot Blocks: “Just kind of doing everything I can to get in front of it. Thankfully they hit me in pretty decent spots, but we ended up getting the win which was most important tonight. Especially going into break on a high note, feeling good about ourselves.”

On Tonight’s Game: “I think everyone was going tonight, everyone was doing their job and playing well and playing for the guy next to him, so that’s how we’re going to be successful moving forward.”