After another opening game, Dallas Stars will try to recoil when they host the Colorado avalanche in the 2nd game of the first Tour Stanley Cup playoff series.
Dallas lost the first match of each of the last eight seasons series and lost the team’s loss of 5-1 to Colorado on Saturday. The stars still won four of the previous seven series, including the second round of avalanche last year.
Dallas Forward Wyatt Johnston, “We do not want to be in this situation, but we had a 1-0 falling experience in a series … Playoff time, you will lose the game, you will win the game. The most important game is the next game.” He said.
Beyond the defeat of the game 1, the losses of Saturday continued to the wine -free sleds of the stars at the end of the season. Dallas was 0-5-2 in the last seven matches of the normal season.
The avalanche was closer to the last score, because the avalanche entered the 2-1 edge road for the last eight-minute arrangement. Devon Toews scored 12:56 in the third period to extend the leadership of Colorado, and Nathan Mackinnon (Empty Netter) and Charlie Coele scored twice in 11 seconds and put the game in the last four minutes.
Jake Oettinger stopped only 19 out of 23 shots, but it was a harsh trip for Dallas Goaldender because of the two deviant avalanche targets.
Mackenzie Blackwood, who played in the first NHL Playoff match, looked sharp by stopping 23 out of 24 shots. Blackwood’s lack of playoff experience was shown as a potential weak connection for Colorado, but Mackinnon felt that such concerns were exaggerated.
Mackinnon, “Prepare your best, do your best, and see where the chips fall.” He said. “I think this is the only thing you can really do.
Mackinnon missed the last three matches of the normal season due to an unspecified injury, but he returned in the form of two goals in the game 1 and the usual superstar form. Mackinnon’s 13th season match with at least three points was 1.31 points per game.
The two goals were the 49th and 50th residues of Mackinnon’s playoff career, and he became the 68th player in the history of NHL, which hit the threshold of 50 goals after the season.
Avalanche Forward Ross Colton is controversial for the game 2 after leaving with lower body injury at the beginning of the third period of the game 1.
Gabriel Landeskog is practicing with avalanche and can do its long -awaited return in the 2nd Game. The Colorado Captain has not played a NHL game since the 6th game of the 2022 Stanley Cup Final, because more than one knee surgery has left Landeskog for almost three years.
The stars defender Miro Heiskanen practices without contact with the team and can return to the series as soon as he joins at least one full contact session. Heiskanese game 1 and the last 32 matches of the normal season of the stars missed the knee injury.
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