DENVER — There’s a lot of season left, so it’s important not to overreact over one game in a tough building against a fast, high-octane opponent jacked up to perform in their home opener.



And it’s important to remember the Wild did have a couple good chances to tie the game before a couple empty-netters turned a one-goal Colorado Avalanche victory into a more lopsided-looking 4-1 final score.



But the reality is that three-goal deficit was probably the appropriate margin of defeat anyway during a season-opening game where the Wild were three or four steps too slow until the third period and needed every inch of Devan Dubnyk’s 6-foot-6 body and equipment the first 40 minutes to even keep things close.



“At the end of the day, up until we had a decent push at the end, we didn’t do nearly enough to generate offense,” said Zach Parise, who gave the Wild an early lead. But that would be all she wrote for the team that...