Colorado Avalanche (49-15-10, in the Central Division) vs. Dallas Stars (45-19-12, in the Central Division)<\/p>\n
Dallas; Saturday, 3 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Colorado Avalanche visit the Dallas Stars after Sam Malinski scored two goals in the Avalanche’s 8-6 loss to the Vancouver Canucks.<\/p>\n
Dallas has gone 45-19-12 overall with a 16-5-3 record against the Central Division. The Stars lead the Western Conference with 67 power-play goals.<\/p>\n
Colorado has a 49-15-10 record overall and a 14-4-5 record in Central Division play. The Avalanche have a +93 scoring differential, with 280 total goals scored and 187 conceded.<\/p>\n
Saturday’s game is the fourth meeting between these teams this season. The Stars won 2-1 in a shootout in the previous meeting.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Jason Robertson has scored 40 goals with 49 assists for the Stars. Mikko Rantanen has two goals and eight assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Cale Makar has 20 goals and 55 assists for the Avalanche. Nathan MacKinnon has six goals and seven assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Stars: 3-5-2, averaging 2.5 goals, 4.6 assists, 3.6 penalties and 8.9 penalty minutes while giving up 2.7 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Avalanche: 5-4-1, averaging 3.7 goals, 6.2 assists, 3.5 penalties and 7.8 penalty minutes while giving up 2.9 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Stars: Sam Steel: out (hip), Tyler Myers: day to day (undisclosed), Michael Bunting: out (lower body), Nathan Bastian: out (hand), Radek Faksa: out (upper-body), Roope Hintz: out (lower body), Tyler Seguin: out for season (acl).<\/p>\n
Avalanche: Cale Makar: out (upper body), Nicolas Roy: out (upper body).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The Associated Press Colorado Avalanche (49-15-10, in the Central Division) vs. Dallas Stars (45-19-12, in the Central…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5116],"tags":[193,192,144,5277,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-539940","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-colorado-avalanche","8":"tag-avalanche","9":"tag-colorado","10":"tag-colorado-avalanche","11":"tag-coloradoavalanche","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116345356670749189","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}