Tonight is on Center Ice Online is the Fox SportsNet feed, and the audio is terrible.  It's got all kinds of disortion, like the volume is turned up incredibly high on the broadcast end.  

It was like that during the Wild/Canucks game on Friday.  

I hope I don't get a headache.

Puck dropped, Avs win the face-off.

So far so good, the Avs look to be playing really hard so far.  They look fast.

Great scoring chance by the Avs, followed by another by the Wild, followed by one for the Avs.

Crazy game so far.  Sakic looks a little winded.

Penalty against Wyatt Smith for hooking.  Avs PK goes into action.  

Huge series of saves by Budaj, he just shut down Gaborik.  Very nice.

Despite the Wild's reputation for killing offense, this game has been nothing but flying attacks by both teams' scoring lines.  

Tons of action in this one so far.  This is the kind of hockey I like to see!

Avs defense has been weak through the neutral zone but strong in their own end.  Cumiskey's had a couple of good plays.

Budaj just made another big save.

Now the Wild are getting entirely too many scoring chances.  Every other play is a huge drive on goal by Minnesota.  The Avs can't get anything going.

Brian Rolston's soul patch is creepy.

The Avs are just slinging the puck at the goal, not actually shooting for the score.  This is starting to worry me.

The Wild finally get a goal after dominating most of the first period.

Avs down 1-0.

The Wild just about scored on another superb offensive play in the Avs' zone.

This game is starting to look like the Stars game.  The Wild are out-playing Colorado at every end of the ice.

Avalanche go on the power play for the first time in the game.  I'm not holding my breath for anything special.

First period wasn't a disaster only because of Budaj making some huge saves.  The Wild have skated circles around the Avs so far, and the Avs aren't showing any fight.  If things keep up like this, we could see another 6-1 loss.

Game back on.  Wild already get a great scoring chance but Budaj shuts them down.

I really wish the Wild announcers would pay attention to the game.  God they just talk about stupid crap all the time.

Two huge Wild scoring chances, with disaster prevented only by Peter Budaj being freaking amazing.

He shut down a 2-on-1 with no help at all from the defense.

Wild player had a great wrister from the wing and barely got it through the opposite arm of Budaj.  It looked wide, but went in.

Damn.

Wild 2-0.

Sakic looks slow as hell.  He's got not spring in his step and no presence on the ice.  The Avs still can't get anything going.

You can really tell how superior Jacques Lemaire is when it comes to defense compared to Coach Q.  The Wild are just skating around the Avs zone like it's their own, and every time the Avs get near the Wild's end, they're totally shut down.

This is a one-sided game.

Why the hell have Smith and Guite had a much bigger presence on the ice tonight than Stastny, Hejduk, Smyth, Sakic and the others on the top two lines?  Why are Smith and Guite the only players showing some real effort in the Wild zone?

WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?

Parrish gets called for knocking down Finger, but the replay showed Finger just lost an edge.  Avs get lucky on that one.

Josh Harding is nothing short of superb in this game.  How he stopped every single shot in that last series of Avalanche attacks I'll never know.  Holy crap!

This game is getting more frustrating by the second.

Arnason gets blanked on a one-on-none, then the Wild take it THE ENTIRE LENGTH OF THE ICE UNOPPOSED and score.  This is asinine.

Wild 3-0.

The Avs finally get a goal off some work down low.  

I missed who scored it, though.

The Avs are not talking to each other on the ice.  Somebody tried a back pass behind the net but there wasn't another Av within a mile of it.

Another Wild goal.

4-1.

Arnason and Hlinka were in the immediate vicinity of the assist and the goal and totally got beat.

Jeff Finger looks like he's trying to get some action going.  A little pushing and shoving going on.  Guite was right in the middle of it, too.

Where's Lappy when you need him?

Only slightly better effort from the Avs in the second.  The lone goal they scored was pure luck.

I'm getting close to packing this one in.  We'll see how things go, but I'm sure I can find something better to do with my time then watch this crap.

And I'm not a big fan of Marney's turtleneck tonight.

I just have to get this off my chest...

Michael Hanyes is a human prairie dog.

You may now return to normal programming.

Game on.

Let's see how many goals the Avs can give up in this one.

Richardson is out playing with Brunette tonight.  Arnason is the center on that line.

Another power play for the Avs, but I'll go ahead and say that they won't score on it.

Let's hope they prove me wrong.

Kyle Cumiskey is too fast for himself.  He loses his balance a lot---way too much for an effective d-man.  It looks like he just gets ahead of himself.

The new Smyth-Stastny-Hejduk line is looking good now, but they just can't get anything to go in.

Another Avalanche PP.  Anyone want to guess what happens?

Wild with the man advantage.

Three minutes left, three-goal deficit.  I'm starting to think the Avs might lose this game.

Hlinka made a nice effort to shoot the backhand, but nothing is getting past Harding now.

Budaj makes a huge glove save, and he's looking okay now.

This was another rotten road game for the Avs.  What a waste of time.

Where in the world is Joe Sakic?

Recap tomorrow.