Stars defeat Avalanche in Game 3, take lead in Western 2nd Round

Mikko Rantanen scored, and Alexandar Georgiev made 19 saves for the Avalanche, who’re the No. 3 seed from the Central.

“I felt like we carried some lengthy stretches of the sport for the primary 40 minutes. My one take could be we’ve acquired to make it just a little bit harder on Oettinger, getting visitors there,” Colorado coach Jared Bednar mentioned. “We had a few actually beauty within the first and did not do it. We had a few actually beauty within the second and subsequent factor you realize, we’re down by one.

“Simply form of looks like we push, push, push after which we make one mistake and it ended up at the back of the web within the second, which is unlucky. However you may’t make these errors towards Dallas as a result of they’ve the power to [capitalize].”

Stankoven gave Dallas a 1-0 lead at 18:39 of the primary interval on a wrist shot from the left face-off circle that went previous the arm of Georgiev. It was the rookie’s first profession playoff purpose.

“I believe it’s at all times good to contribute. I really feel like I’ve been doing the best issues however simply couldn’t discover the again of the web,” Stankoven mentioned. “There’s at all times bumps within the highway being a younger man within the League, so I’m simply looking for my method and earn the coaches’ belief.”

Rantanen tied it 1-1 at 10:24 of the second interval on a rebound of Nathan MacKinnon’s shot within the crease. MacKinnon deked round Stars defenseman Chris Tanev and put his shot off the leg of Evgenii Dadonov.

“I assumed we did numerous nice issues. We actually had numerous probabilities, numerous beauty,” MacKinnon mentioned. “Simply Oettinger was nice, and we made a few massive errors that value us.”

Seguin put the Stars again forward 2-1 at 15:13 when he deflected a cross-ice move from Dadonov on the far aspect of the web.

“We knew coming into this rink how these guys play. We additionally understand how we play on the highway,” mentioned Seguin. “We knew it’d be a giant problem. I believe subsequent sport’s going to be a fair larger problem, however playoffs are about these moments and getting the best bounces at instances as effectively, and we had that tonight.”