Highest-scoring NHL playoff games: Where Avalanche-Wild 15-goal barnburner ranks in postseason history
These Stanley Cup Playoff games were complete barnburners.
Highest-scoring NHL playoff games: Where Avalanche-Wild 15-goal barnburner ranks in postseason history originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . The Stanley Cup Playoffs will give you every type of hockey game each spring, from a 0-0 game in overtime to a complete onslaught of goals and everything in between.
Those low-scoring affairs in which the fans hang on every shot are thrilling, but you could argue that nothing beats the twists and turns of a high-scoring game. The Colorado Avalanche and Minnesota Wild combined for one of the most entertaining games in recent playoff history when Game 1 of their second-round matchup saw 15 total goals and blown leads by both teams. Here's a look at the highest-scoring playoff games in NHL history and where the Avalanche's win over the Wild ranks.
MORE: Fewest shots in NHL playoff win after Canadiens' bizarre Game 7 What is the highest-scoring NHL playoff game? The Los Angeles Kings and Edmonton Oilers played the highest-scoring playoff game in NHL history on April 7, 1982, when the Kings scored the game's final two goals for a 10-8 victory in Game 1 of a five-game, first-round series. Marcel Dionne and Daryl Evans each scored twice for L.
A. , while Risto Siltanen had the only multi-goal effort for the Oilers. Wayne Gretzky also got in on the action with a goal against his future team.