Minnesota Wild at Colorado Avalanche odds, picks and prediction

Minnesota Wild and Colorado Avalanche are playing each other at Ball Arena in Denver at 9 p.m. ET. The Wild are 5-2-0, but they are 1-3-1 in their last 5 games. Colorado is 3-4-5, and its last win was in St. Louis on Thursday.

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Cam Talbot (5-1-0, 2.47 GAA, .914 SV%) is the projected goalie for the Minnesota Wild against Darcy Kuemper (3-3, 3.19 Gaa, .893 SV%). Talot allowed just two goals on 36 shots in Seattle on Thursday. Kuomper coughed up three goals in St. Louis.

Colorado Avalanche is 7-3 in the past 10 games at Ball Arena. The Avs have won five of the previous seven games in this series. Minnesota has covered just once in their three wins to date. Colorado covered the most two recent home games against Minnesota, outscoring them 11-1 last March 18-20.