St. Paul, MN (My Sportsbook) - The Minnesota Wild try to push things to the limit tonight when they host the Vancouver Canucks in Game 6 of their Western Conference semifinal series at Xcel Energy Center.

Minny trails three games to two after staying alive with a convincing 7-2 victory on Monday night in Vancouver. The Wild are trying to become the first team in National Hockey League history to win two series in the same postseason after trailing 3-1, as they already accomplished the feat in the first round against Colorado.

"The one thing I've learned, you try not to pat yourselves on the back because we haven't done nothing," said Wild veteran Cliff Ronning, a former Canuck. "This next game is huge for us. We have to focus on that and that only. You can't look past that. I've been on teams before when we've looked past that, and it doesn't work out."

On Monday, Ronning scored two goals and Wes Walz added a goal and two assists to lead the effort, which saw the Wild score five times in the second period. Marian Gaborik, Andrew Brunette, Jason Marshall and Richard Park also tallied, with Gaborik netting his league-leading ninth goal of the playoffs. Dwayne Roloson finished with 25 saves.

Roloson returned to the crease after yielding the previous game to Manny Fernandez. Roloson is 2-1 in this series, with a 2.33 goals-against average. Head coach Jacques Lemaire has utilized his goaltending rotation well this postseason, as it was Fernandez who won three straight games to win the set versus Colorado.

In order for the Wild to win tonight and force a Game 7, they will have to do something that has been difficult in these playoffs -- succeed at home. Minnesota is 1-4 at Xcel Energy Center in the postseason, with its lone victory coming in Game 6 against the Avalanche.

The Wild would also have to become just the fourth team in league history to win five straight elimination games -- first since the 1994 Canucks.

Henrik Sedin and Brendan Morrison scored for Vancouver on Monday, while Dan Cloutier allowed six goals on 21 shots before being pulled in favor of backup Alex Auld.

The Canucks continue to seek production from their top duo of Markus Naslund and Todd Bertuzzi, who have combined for one goal in the series. Naslund scored in the opener, while Bertuzzi has gone seven straight without finding the net.

Defenseman Ed Jovanovski had been picking up some of the slack and scored a goal in four consecutive contests, but that surge was ended in Game 5.

The last time the Canucks were defeated as soundly as Monday was the series opener last round versus St. Louis, a 6-0 loss. They rebounded from that setback with a 2-1 victory.

"I'm sure we'll come out more ready to play," said Canucks defenseman Mattias Ohlund, whose club was led for only 38:23 of this series. "We've never had a stretch of bad games. We've always been able to come back. I think that's one of the greatest differences from past years -- we don't let things slide."

With a victory, Vancouver would advance to face the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in the Western Conference finals -- its first such trip since 1994. That series is slated to begin Saturday in either Vancouver or Minnesota.

If the Wild win this evening, the teams wouldn't have much time to think about a seventh game, as it would be held Thursday at GM Place in Vancouver.