ST. PAUL, Minn. – Richard Park scored his second goal of the game 4:22 into overtime Monday night to give the Minnesota Wild a thrilling 3-2 victory over the Colorado Avalanche to force a decisive Game 7.

The Wild, in the playoffs for the first time in their three-year history, have won two straight while on the brink of elimination. The teams will play Tuesday night in Denver, with the winner moving on to the second round to face either St. Louis or Vancouver. The Blues and Canucks will also play Game 7 on Tuesday.

Of the 193 teams in NHL history that have trailed a series 3-1, only seven have come back to win two games on the road.

After trailing 2-0 late in the third period, the Avalanche looked like they had the momentum by getting goals from Joe Sakic and Greg de Vries against Manny Fernandez in the final 31/2 minutes.

The Wild got four shots on goalie Patrick Roy, and Park’s bad-angle wrist shot slid underneath Roy’s glove to send the crowd of 19,350 – another overflow sellout – into a frenzy.

Roy, who stopped 66 of 69 shots during Games 2-4, gave up three goals for the second straight game. He made 20 saves.

Roy has played 57 overtime games in the postseason and his record in those contests fell to a still stellar 40-17.

He matched Fernandez until 1:45 of the third period, when Minnesota went up 1-0 on Park’s first goal.

Park, who hit the post with shots in Games 2, 3 and 4, rushed in from the right circle and zinged a wrist shot high over Roy’s left shoulder.

The Wild have only a few forwards whose skating and shooting skills are on par with the Avs’ best, but Marian Gaborik – the 21-year-old All-Star from Slovakia – is one of them.

He darted past de Vries to track down a pass from Antti Laaksonen, swooped in and slammed a shot at Roy’s right shoulder that ricocheted off him and trickled into the net with 7:54 left in regulation.

Maple Leafs 2, Flyers 1

TORONTO – Travis Green scored 10:51 into the second overtime as the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Philadelphia Flyers 2-1 Monday night to force a decisive Game 7 in the first-round series.

Green backhanded a shot over goalie Roman Cechmanek after Darcy Tucker’s rebound landed in front of the net.

The teams have played seven overtime periods during the first six games of the series but will have to recover quickly because Game 7 is Tuesday night in Philadelphia. Not since the 1950 Stanley Cup finals have Games 6 and 7 of a series been played on consecutive nights.

All three games played in Toronto in this series were decided in overtime.

Toronto won 4-2 in double overtime to take a 2-1 series lead last Monday night, but the Flyers won 3-2 in triple overtime last Wednesday and 4-1 on Saturday.

Jeremy Roenick scored for the Flyers, who have lost in the first round four of the past five years.

Toronto’s Mats Sundin almost won it in the first overtime with a backhanded shot, but Cechmanek made a sprawling pad save. Sundin later hit the post. Gary Roberts missed a few good chances in both overtimes.

Cechmanek, who made 34 saves, later robbed Tucker with a kick save.

Ed Belfour stopped 35 shots.

Toronto outshot Philadelphia 9-1 in the first 12 minutes.

of the game and took a 1-0 lead.

Cechmanek tried to pick up his glove as Robert Reichel’s bad-angle shot went over his shoulder to give Toronto a 1-0 lead at 10:35 of the first.

Roenick, who missed some shifts early in the second after being checked into the boards, tied it at 1 at 15:23. Sami Kapanen made a drop pass to Roenick, whose slap shot from the circle beat Belfour.

The Maple Leafs received a penalty shot late in the second after Cechmanek threw his stick at the puck, but Cechmanek made an easy save on Reichel’s slap shot.

Moments earlier Reichel hit the post after Tie Domi made a pass from behind the net.

Notes: The Colorado-Minnesota series in the Western Conference was also stretched to seven games with the Wild’s 3-2 overtime victory Monday night. Game 7 of that series will be Tuesday night in Denver. … Toronto’s Nik Antropov returned to the lineup after missing just four games with a broken bone in his foot. … Belfour, who turned 38 on Monday, is second among active goalies with 40 overtime games. He is 22-18 in those contests. … The Flyers killed Toronto’s two-man advantage in the first. … Jim Vandermeer, who replaced Desjardins in the lineup, appeared woozy after Toronto’s Tom Fitzgerald checked him to the ice in the third. Philadelphia’s Chris Therien later sent Fitzgerald into the Flyers bench with a check.

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