Miles Wooden’s extra time objective 11:03 into the additional interval capped a rally from a three-goal deficit to offer the Colorado Avalanche a 4-3 win over the Dallas Stars on Tuesday evening at American Airways Heart in Dallas.
The Avalanche take a 1-0 lead within the Western Convention second-round playoff sequence. Sport 2 is Thursday in Dallas at 9:30 p.m. ET.
Wooden beat Stars defenseman Miro Heiskanen to the puck for a breakaway and slid a shot previous Dallas goalie Jake Oettinger, who made 22 saves.
Colorado trailed 3-0 after the primary interval.
An element within the Stars’ collapse might have been that their seven-game first-round sequence win over the Vegas Golden Knights simply ended on Sunday evening. The Avalanche had per week to relaxation after eliminating the Winnipeg Jets in 5 video games.
Defenseman Cale Makar had a objective and two assists, and Valeri Nichushkin and Nathan MacKinnon every contributed a objective and an help for Colorado. Alexandar Georgiev stopped 19 photographs.
MacKinnon tied it 3-3 for the Avalanche 39 seconds into the third interval when he buried a rebound. MacKinnon was named a finalist for the Hart Trophy, the regular-season MVP, earlier within the day.
The Avalanche pulled to inside 3-2 within the second interval with two power-play objectives.
Nichushkin, a former Dallas Star, scored his eighth objective of playoffs 5:31 into the center interval. It was his seventh consecutive playoff sport with a objective, relationship again to final season.
Makar introduced Colorado to inside one 9:08 into the second. He beat Oettinger with a wrist shot from the excessive slot space.
Stars defenseman Ryan Suter opened the scoring 7:26 into the sport when his wrist shot from the left level discovered the web. Wyatt Johnston’s fifth objective of the playoffs, 3:29 later, made it 2-0. He scored proper off a face-off from the highest of the left circle. Captain Jamie Benn’s 5-on-3 power-play objective with 3:04 left within the opening interval made it 3-0. He tipped in a shot by Jason Robertson.
