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2003 Playoffs
Playoffs statistics
NHL teams
Colorado
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Regular season:
No.3 Colorado 42-19-13-8
No.6 Minnesota 42-29-10-1
Season series:
Avalanche 2-1-2
Power play:
Colorado 18.7% (6th)
Minnesota 14.2% (23rd)
Penalty killing:
Colorado 82.5% (21st)
Minnesota 86.0% (4th)
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| Game 1, 2-4 (0-0, 1-3, 1-1) Box Score | Recap |
| Game 2, 3-2 (2-1, 0-0, 1-1) Box Score | Recap |
| Game 3, 3-0 (1-0, 1-0, 1-0) Box Score | Recap |
| Game 4, 3-1 (2-0, 0-0, 1-1) Box Score | Recap |
| Game 5, 2-3 (0-1, 0-2, 2-0) Box Score | Recap |
| Game 6, 2-3 (0-0, 0-0, 2-2, 0-1) Box Score | Recap |
| Game 7, 2-3 (0-0, 1-1, 1-1, 0-1) Box Score | Recap |
| Minnesota wins series 4-3 |
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Wild Finish Off Avalanche
Archived from 2002-03 season.
Andrew Brunette scored 3:25 into overtime and Manny Fernandez stopped 43 shots as the Minnesota Wild won their first playoff series with a 3-2 victory over the Colorado Avalanche in Game 7 of their first-round series.
"Every player put heart and soul into it," Wild's Marian Gaborik said. "The feeling is something that I don't have words for right now. I don't know. It's just unbelievable."
Brunette got a pass from Sergei Zholtok and skated past defenseman Derek Morris and cut right across the crease, sliding a backhander around the left pad of goaltender Patrick Roy.
"Been waiting for a bounce like that all series," Brunette said. "It's just a blur. Instincts took over. I'm having the time of my life and it was just great to finish it off that way."
Colorado was knocked out in the first round for the first time since losing to Edmonton in seven games in 1998 _ the last time the Avalanche lost a series after blowing a 3-1 lead.
"We didn't put them away in Game 5 and this is what happens," Colorado's Joe Sakic said.
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