On a night where the shorthanded Colorado Avalanche desperately needed contributions from some of the other guys, they delivered.

Colorado forward Nathan MacKinnon, bloodied by a puck to the face, briefly left the Avalanche's game against the Minnesota Wild on Monday in Minneapolis before returning to action. He wound up scoring an empty-net goal in the last minute of Colorado's 5-2 win,

Mackenzie Blackwood replaced Scott Wedgewood early in the second period of the Avs' 5-1 loss to the Wild in Game 3.

Lehkonen, a forward, and Malinski, a defenseman, both missed the game with upper-body injuries and were not on the ice for warmups. Each had played in every Stanley Cup Playoff ga