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ST. PAUL, Minn. -- The Minnesota Wild were denied at the net by Semyon Varlamov time after time, a 44-shot barrage in regulation that resulted in, alas, zero goals. Coach Mike Yeo jokingly wondered aloud at the third intermission whether his team was "psychotic" to put itself through such angst. After all, the way this sport often goes, the next score in the scoreless game had the strong potential to be one of those bad-bounce goals that make a night of domination go for naught. Mikael Granlund made sure that didnt happen. Granlunds diving goal 5:08 into overtime gave the Wild a 1-0 win over the Colorado Avalanche in Game 3 on Monday. Minnesota pulled within 2-1 in the best-of-seven series after Varlamov stopped 45 of 46 shots, a franchise playoff record for shots on goal by the Wild. "You see it so many times where teams do so well and get chance after chance after chance and then a fluky one goes in against you. Luckily. that wasnt the case," said Wild left wing Zach Parise. Granlund, who had a career-high seven shots on goal, sliced toward the crease and moved parallel to the net with some slick stick work. Avalanche defenceman Erik Johnson, who saved Game 1 by racing to swat away a shot on an empty net, lost his balance and tried unsuccessfully to dive at Granlund, who then began to fall forward. Granlund extended his stick to knock the puck in, and the celebration ensued. "We were playing really good. We were creating chances. We got rewarded. We need to just keep playing like that," Granlund said. Game 4 is at Xcel Energy Center on Thursday, when the Avalanche will be without defenceman Tyson Barrie. He took a knee-to-knee hit in the second period that yielded a penalty for Matt Cooke and a medial collateral ligament injury for Barrie. Coach Patrick Roy said hell be need four to six weeks to recover. "Knee on Tyson Barrie is without a doubt the play of the game. We lost our best offensive defenceman," Roy said, expressing confidence the NHL will suspend Cooke. Darcy Kuemper made 22 saves, and the Wild goalie in his first career playoff start was just as good as Varlamov. He said he had a feeling this would be a one-goal game. "I just tried to stick with it and make the saves I had to," Kuemper said. "My teammates were obviously playing unbelievable and making it easy on me. I was just trying to do my job and stay sharp." After the Avalanche line of Nathan MacKinnon, Paul Stastny and Gabe Landeskog combined for 17 points and seven goals over the first two games, the Wild kept them from doing any damage. The Wild shuffled their lines, with veteran Dany Heatleys move off the scratch list the most notable change, and played their style. They didnt get enough guys to the net for long rebounds Varlamov has a tendency to produce, but they completely controlled the flow, even if there wasnt much to show for it. "We were a little on our heels. We couldve been a little bit better, played a little more simple," MacKinnon said. After wasting a 4-2 lead in Game 1, giving up the tying goal with 13 seconds left to Stastny, as well as the overtime winner, the Wild badly needed to recapture some energy. They did from the opening faceoff, firing up a crowd thats been waiting 11 years for a playoff series victory. The Wild finally figured out how to contain the super-fast MacKinnon, forcing the 18-year-old wonder to have to stay in his own zone. They had the Avalanche on their heels for the majority of regulation. Cooke was all over the ice in his 100th career playoff game, colliding with just about every white Colorado jersey. "We didnt play up to what were capable of, theres no doubt. But Id rather give them credit. They played well. They were sharp. They were the better team on the ice," Roy said, adding yet more praise for Varlamov. Thanks to Granlund, the Wild avoided the huge hole. "Lets not kid ourselves. 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Matt Fast opened with a 4-under 67 on the Champions Course. He was joined at minus-4 by Justin Peters, Dustin Bray, Seamus Power, Cory Renfrew and Jhared Hack, who all shot 68 on the Fazio Course. Lee started the day on the back nine and he tripped to a bogey at the 10th. After five pars in a row, he atoned for that mistake with a birdie on the par-3 16th. After a pair of pars, Lee put together a scorching front nine. He birdied the first, but gave that right back as he bogeyed the second. Lee ran off seven consecutive birdies from the thirdd to close out his round and soar into the lead.dddddddddddd I did not play well in my practice sessions early in the week and todays warm-up was horrible, admitted Lee, who won the Jack Nicklaus award as the Division III golfer of the year in 2010. Its clearly a marathon and not a sprint, as everyone keeps saying. Scott started with birdies at the first and sixth. After dropping a shot on the ninth, Scott jumped up the leaderboard with five straight birdies from the 10th. After a pair of pars, Scott moved to 7-under with a birdie on the 17th, but he closed with a bogey at the last to end one back. Cochran, who is the nephew of PGA and Champions Tour winner Russ Cochran, birdied the fourth to go with five pars in his first six holes. He faltered to a bogey on the par-3 seventh, but that was his only dropped shot of the day. The 28-year-old posted three birdies in a 4-hole span from the ninth to climb to minus-3. After he parred the 13th and 14th, Cochran also birdied three of the last four holes to gain a piece of second place. NOTES: Lee was a four-time All-American golfer at Claremont McKenna College and he won the Division III Individual title in 2010 ... Cochran missed the cut in his lone Web.com Tour start, while Scott has never played a single event on the PGA or Web.com Tour. ' ' '