Minnesota Wild vs Colorado Avalanche
Regular season · Sunday, December 23, 2001 · Pepsi Center
Game summary
The Colorado Avalanche beat the Minnesota Wild 6–3 on Sunday, December 23, 2001 at Pepsi Center. The Avalanche outshot the Wild 49–21.
Brian Willsie scored twice. Jim Dowd, Alex Tanguay, Milan Hejduk, Eric Messier, Greg De Vries, Andrew Brunette and Aaron Gavey also scored.
Patrick Roy made 18 saves on 21 shots for the win; Dwayne Roloson stopped 43 of 49.
Scoring
1st period
Jim Dowd (11)Willie Mitchell (3), Andrew Brunette (24)1–009:09 MIN · 
Brian Willsie (5)Scott Parker (1), Martin Skoula (10)1–111:15 COL
Alex Tanguay (6)Joe Sakic (23), Rob Blake (14)1–215:24 COL ·
2nd period
Milan Hejduk (11)Alex Tanguay (16), Rob Blake (15)1–303:45 COL · 
Eric Messier (2)Scott Parker (2)1–418:24 COL
3rd period
Greg De Vries (5)Steve Reinprecht (16), Shjon Podein (6)1–503:30 COL · - Brian Willsie (6)Scott Parker (3), Brad Larsen (2)1–610:29 COL
Andrew Brunette (11)Brad Bombardir (1)2–611:32 MIN · 
Aaron Gavey (4)Darby Hendrickson (9)3–616:01 MIN
Team stats
MINCOL
2149
45%55%
2/52/4
810
1521
1111
48
1716
Penalties
- 6:59 into the first period
Rob Blake · high sticking2 min - 6:59 into the first periodRob Blake · high sticking2 min
- 14:27 into the first period
Lubomir Sekeras · high sticking2 min - 2:46 into the second periodPascal Dupuis · hooking2 min
- 3:58 into the second periodJim Dowd · high sticking2 min
- 3:58 into the second periodJim Dowd · high sticking2 min
- 10:58 into the second periodPatrick Roy · delaying game2 min
- 2:24 into the third periodVille Nieminen · tripping2 min
- 11:26 into the third periodMilan Hejduk · high sticking2 min
Season series
Minnesota Wild
| 15Andrew BrunetteL | 1 | 1 | 2 | −2 | 2 | 16:56 |
| 14Darby HendricksonC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 17:14 |
| 34Jim DowdC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 14:39 |
| 44Aaron GaveyC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 2 | 12:04 |
| 2Willie MitchellD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 22:23 |
| 5Brad BombardirD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 20:43 |
| 11Pascal DupuisR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 16:09 |
| 12Matt JohnsonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11:15 |
| 18Richard ParkR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 17:08 |
| 22Stacy RoestC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:27 |
| 24Antti LaaksonenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 5 | 13:57 |
| 33Sergei ZholtokC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 15:57 |
| 37Wes WalzC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 16:21 |
| 3Ladislav BenysekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16:50 |
| 17Filip KubaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 18:46 |
| 23Jason MarshallD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 15:54 |
| 42Andy SuttonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 11:32 |
| 77Lubomir SekerasD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 19:07 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Dwayne RolosonG | L | 49 | 6 | .878 |
| 35Manny FernandezG | 0 | 0 | – |
Colorado Avalanche
| 27Scott ParkerR | 0 | 3 | 3 | +2 | 4 | 11:48 |
| 40Alex TanguayL | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 17:47 |
| 50Brian WillsieR | 2 | 0 | 2 | +1 | 4 | 12:07 |
| 4Rob BlakeD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 1 | 23:48 |
| 9Brad LarsenL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 11:25 |
| 19Joe SakicC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 18:23 |
| 23Milan HejdukR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 18:05 |
| 25Shjon PodeinL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 10:07 |
| 28Steve ReinprechtC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 17:56 |
| 29Eric MessierL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 10:59 |
| 7Greg De VriesD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 5 | 19:43 |
| 41Martin SkoulaD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 2 | 20:03 |
| 10Ville NieminenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 15:39 |
| 13Dan HinoteR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 10:18 |
| 18Chris DruryC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 16:49 |
| 5Todd GillD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 15:36 |
| 11Pascal TrepanierD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 16:41 |
| 52Adam FooteD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | 22:58 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1David AebischerG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 33Patrick RoyG | W | 21 | 3 | .857 |