As far as Black Friday deals go, ticket buyers to Friday’s midday showdown between the NHL’s two hottest teams certainly got their money’s worth.

It may be too early to talk about playoff previews when fans of the Wild and Avalanche are still munching on cold turkey and leftover sweet potatoes, but Minnesota’s 3-2 shootout win over Colorado had all of the markings of a showdown between two teams with designs on meeting again in May.

Mats Zuccarello and Matt Boldy scored in the post-overtime shootout as Minnesota asserted its dramatic and thorough reentry into the Central Division title race after a sluggish first month of the season.

Kirill Kaprizov had a pair of late second-period goals as the Wild rallied from a mid-game deficit, improving to 11-1-1 in November. Colorado has now gone

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