Photos: Wild, Avalanche battle to the end
Charlie Coyle of the Minnesota Wild controls the puck against Nathan MacKinnon of the Colorado Avalanche as Matt Moulson of the Minnesota Wild follows the play in Game Seven of the First Round of the 2014 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at Pepsi Center on April 30, 2014 in Denver, Colorado.
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(AP) — In a hard-fought Game Seven, the Colorado Avalanche took a lead on four different occasions, only to have the Wild respond. Nino Niederreiter won it for Minnesota on a 2-on-1 break when he sent a shot over Semyon Varlamov's shoulder in the fourth overtime of the series.
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