Colorado Avalanche (49-15-10) @ Dallas Stars (45-19-12)<\/p>\n
1 p.m.\u00a0MT |\u00a0American Airlines Center\u00a0| Watch:\u00a0ABC, ESPN App\u00a0| Listen: Altitude Sports Radio (92.5 FM)\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Avalanche begins a weekend back-to-back with a road game against the Dallas Stars on Saturday. This is the fourth and final regular-season meeting between the teams in 2025-26, as the Stars won in a shootout in Denver on October 11th\u00a0and March 18th, while the Avs defeated Dallas in a shootout in Texas on March 6th.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Latest Result (COL):\u00a0VAN 8, COL 6\u00a0<\/p>\n
Latest Result (DAL):\u00a0WPG 0, DAL 3\u00a0<\/p>\n
Defeat in Denver\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Avalanche lost to the Vancouver Canucks 8-6 at Ball Arena on Wednesday. Nathan MacKinnon became the first player in the NHL to reach the 50-goal mark this\u00a0season,\u00a0Sam Malinski scored twice while Gabriel Landeskog, Parker Kelly and Brent Burns all added a tally for the Avs. Vancouver\u2019s Max Sasson opened the scoring at 29 seconds of the first period\u00a0with a goal off the rush. MacKinnon tied the game at 1:22 of the\u00a0first period via a shot from the high slot after making a series of moves to create space for himself. Teddy\u00a0Blueger\u00a0gave the Canucks a 2-1 lead at 5:21 of the first period with a shorthanded goal via a right-circle shot off the rush.\u00a0At 11:38 of the opening frame, Jake\u00a0DeBrusk\u00a0doubled Vancouver\u2019s lead on the power play via a shot from the doorstep. Landeskog made it a 3-2 game at 16:05 of the first period with his 12th\u00a0goal of the season via a\u00a0redirection from the slot on Burns\u2019\u00a0left-point\u00a0shot.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Blueger\u00a0gave the Canucks a 4-2 lead at 5:02 of the second period with a shot from the doorstep off the rush. Vancouver took a 5-2 lead at 9:42\u00a0of\u00a0the middle frame when Brock Boeser scored via a one-timer from the bottom of the left circle.\u00a0Boeser made it 6-2 at 15:21 of the second period via a shot from the high slot off the rush. The Avs cut its deficit to three at 15:43 of the middle frame when Malinski scored his\u00a0sixth goal of the season via a shot from the point. At 14 seconds of the third period, Kelly made it a 6-4 game with his 19th\u00a0goal of the season via a right-circle shot off the rush.\u00a0Burns put the Avalanche within a goal at 13:21 of the third period with his 11th\u00a0tally of the season via a one-timer from the right point. Colorado tied the game at 13:58 of\u00a0the third period when Malinski scored his second goal of the game and seventh of the season via a shot from the high slot. The Canucks took a 7-6 lead when Marcus Pettersson scored with a left-circle one-timer at 14:21\u00a0of\u00a0the third period.\u00a0Boeser gave Vancouver an 8-6 lead at 18:31 of the third period with an\u00a0empty-net goal.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Leading the Way\u00a0
\nNate the Great\u00a0<\/p>\n
MacKinnon leads the NHL in goals (50) while ranking third in points (121) and assists (71).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Wedgewall\u00a0<\/p>\n
Among goalies with at least 23 games played this season, Scott Wedgewood leads the NHL in goals-against average (2.19) and save percentage (.916).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Marty Party\u00a0<\/p>\n
Martin Necas is tied for eighth in the NHL in points (92).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Series History\u00a0<\/p>\n
In 117\u00a0previous\u00a0regular-season games against the Stars, the Avalanche has a record of 56-40-8-13. The teams have played in seven playoff series, in addition to a seeding round-robin contest in the 2020 Stanley Cup Playoffs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lone Star State Shutout\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jake Oettinger recorded a 22-save shutout as the Stars defeated the Winnipeg Jets 3-0 at American Airlines Center on Thursday. In the first period, the Stars took a 2-0 lead after a power-play goal from Matt Duchene at 9:43 and a tally from Arttu\u00a0Hyry\u00a0at 11:12. Adam Erne gave Dallas a 3-0 lead at 2:15\u00a0of\u00a0the second period.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tallying Points Against Texas\u2019 Team\u00a0<\/p>\n
MacKinnon has posted 52 points (19g\/33a) in 47 regular-season games against the Stars, in addition to 29 points (14g\/15a) in 21 playoff contests.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Landeskog has recorded 32 points (16g\/16a) in 36 regular-season contests against Dallas along with 10 points (3g\/7a) in 12 playoff games.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Artturi Lehkonen has registered 17 points (10g\/7a) in 18 regular-season games against the Stars, in\u00a0adiition\u00a0to seven points (4g\/3a) in 13 playoff contests.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Stars\u2019 Scorers\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jason Robertson leads the Stars in points (89) while ranking second in goals (40) and third in assists (49).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Wyatt Johnston leads Dallas in goals (41) while ranking second in points (80) and fourth in assists (39).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Miro Heiskanen leads the Stars in assists (53) and ranks fourth in points (62).\u00a0<\/p>\n
A Numbers Game\u00a0
\n2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Since entering the NHL in the 2013-14 season, MacKinnon is the only Canadian player to record multiple 50-goal seasons and just one of four players overall to reach that mark in more than one campaign (Alex Ovechkin \u2013 5, Leon Draisaitl \u2013 4, Auston Matthews \u2013 2).\u00a0<\/p>\n
3.75\u00a0<\/p>\n
Colorado\u2019s 3.75 goals per game since March 1st\u00a0are tied for the third most in the NHL.\u00a0<\/p>\n
2.43\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Avalanche\u2019s 2.43\u00a0goals against\u00a0per game on the road are the fewest in the NHL\u00a0this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Quote That Left a Mark\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cJust\u00a0growing\u00a0in his game. He\u00a0probably puts\u00a0a lot of pressure on himself coming in and being that number-one\u00a0right [defenseman], after you lose a guy that\u00a0you\u2019ve\u00a0probably been\u00a0trying to mold your game after and look up to (Cale Makar). Proud of his growth over the last two\u00a0years\u00a0I\u2019ve\u00a0been here.\u00a0It\u2019s\u00a0impressive.\u00a0He\u2019s\u00a0got a [heck] of a\u00a0shot\u00a0and he\u00a0probably deserves\u00a0more goals than what\u00a0he\u2019s\u00a0gotten and nice to see him get a couple.\u00a0But,\u00a0everything\u2019s\u00a0an experience.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
— Scott Wedgewood on Sam Malinski’s play<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colorado Avalanche (49-15-10) @ Dallas Stars (45-19-12) 1 p.m.\u00a0MT |\u00a0American Airlines Center\u00a0| Watch:\u00a0ABC, ESPN App\u00a0| Listen: Altitude Sports…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5117],"tags":[196,147,5278,5,4,197],"class_list":{"0":"post-540524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-stars","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-stars","10":"tag-dallasstars","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-stars"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116347366655709582","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540524","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=540524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}