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Video: Wild score four in 5:07 for shock win in Colorado

Everything was going great for the Avs in their season-opener against Minnesota on Thursday night.

Great until the third period, anyway.

In a stunning and dramatic comeback, the Wild erased a 4-1 deficit in just over five minutes -- 5:07 to be exact -- scoring four times to steal a 5-4 win at the Pepsi Center.

They were the fastest four goals in Wild franchise history.

The comeback started early in the final frame, when captain Zach Parise scored his second of the night at the 5:07 mark. Just over two minutes later, Nino Niederreiter snapped one past Semyon Varlamov to make it 4-3 and then, two minutes after that, Thomas Vanek scored to make it 4-4.

But the Wild weren’t done there.

Parise completed his hat trick -- the third of his career -- with a power play marker at the 10:14 mark, an unassisted tally. When the dust finally settled on the 5:07 flurry, the Wild had combined to rack up nine points from eight different skaters.

Prior to the comeback, Colorado dominated proceedings with a goalscoring flurry of its own.

The Avs scored three times in the final seven minutes of the first period -- including a pair of power play goals from Jarome Iginla and Erik Johnson -- to race out to a (seemingly) commanding 3-0 lead.