{"id":543563,"date":"2026-04-06T10:01:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T10:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/543563\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T10:01:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T10:01:21","slug":"wtpu-avalanche-better-offensively-in-tight-win-over-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/543563\/","title":{"rendered":"WTPU: Avalanche better offensively in tight win over Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Colorado Avalanche proved to be the better offensive team in a tight win over the Dallas Stars.<\/p>\n<p>It was a playoff-style matchup between the Central Division rivals. More than 50 minutes passed before the first goal was scored, and it came off Martin Necas\u2019s stick. Artturi Lehkonen found space to make a perfect pass to the 27-year-old forward, who tapped it to the back of the net.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/milehighsports.com\/avalanches-brent-burns-journey-to-an-amazing-historical-milestone\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Avalanche\u2019s Brent Burns\u2019 journey to an amazing historical milestone<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nathan MacKinnon sealed the deal with an empty-netter for a 2-0 final. It was his 51st of the season, tying his career-high.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Wedgewood earned his third shutout of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Mile High Sports\u2019 Colleen Flynn explains why this was an important victory in the latest \u201cWake the Puck Up.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Colorado Avalanche proved to be the better offensive team in a tight win over the Dallas Stars.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5117],"tags":[2320,193,144,196,147,5278,5,513,517,4,197,61083],"class_list":{"0":"post-543563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-stars","8":"tag-artturi-lehkonen","9":"tag-avalanche","10":"tag-colorado-avalanche","11":"tag-dallas","12":"tag-dallas-stars","13":"tag-dallasstars","14":"tag-hockey","15":"tag-martin-necas","16":"tag-nathan-mackinnon","17":"tag-nhl","18":"tag-stars","19":"tag-wake-the-puck-up"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116357188667676672","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543563","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=543563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}