{"id":659998,"date":"2026-05-10T10:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T10:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/659998\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T10:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T10:23:11","slug":"kaprizov-has-3-points-wild-defeat-avalanche-in-game-3-of-western-2nd-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/659998\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaprizov has 3 points, Wild defeat Avalanche in Game 3 of Western 2nd Round"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wallstedt allowed eight goals in Game 1, a 9-6 loss.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously when you give up eight that\u2019s not doing your job,\u201d he said. \u201cThere are goals I wasn\u2019t happy with, there was stuff I thought I did good, you try to separate what was good, what you have to improve on and what was bad, and what stuff you have to adjust playing this opponent. I think I did that well and was more prepared for today\u2019s game than Game 1.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nathan MacKinnon<\/a> scored the lone goal for the Avalanche, who are the No. 1 seed from the Central and Western Conference. Scott Wedgewood<\/a> allowed three goals on 12 shots before being replaced by Mackenzie Blackwood<\/a> at 4:23 of the second period. Blackwood stopped 12 of 13 shots in relief.<\/p>\n

\u201c’Wedgy’ was playing hard. Maybe he looked a little too aggressive on a couple of those. The penalty kill, ends up without a stick, getting aggressive, coming across. Then they find the back of the net. The next one, gets a piece of ‘Toewser’ (Devon Toews<\/a>), I think it\u2019s a pass, and it ends up in the empty net. He\u2019s out too far,\u201d Colorado coach Jared Bednar said.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom what I\u2019ve seen out of Blackwood here recently, a rested guy and a guy that we trust, I felt like it was a good opportunity for us to get him in and see if it sparked our group and if he could maybe close our door the rest of the way. That\u2019s why I did it. Just felt like they had all the momentum and all the speed early in that game, and we needed to do something. We needed to do something to get our guys fired up and going. I was hoping that would be part of it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Avalanche, who were 6-0 in these Stanley Cup Playoffs entering Saturday\u2019s game, lead the best-of-7 series 2-1. Game 4 will be here on Monday (8 p.m. ET; ESPN, SN, CBC, TVAS).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wallstedt allowed eight goals in Game 1, a 9-6 loss. \u201cObviously when you give up eight that\u2019s not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-659998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}