The Dallas Stars face the Colorado Avalanche in Game 2 of the second round of the NHL Playoffs on Thursday, May 9, 2024 (5/9/24) at American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas.
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what: game 2
Who: Dallas Stars vs. Colorado Avalanche
when: Thursday, May 9, 2024
time: 9:30pm (EST)
where: American Airlines Center
tv set: TNT
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Here are recent NHL Playoff AP articles:
DALLAS (AP) — The Dallas Stars are looking forward to a potentially much different Game 7 victory over last year's Stanley Cup champions and a much different Western Conference playoff game against a well-rested 2022 champion Colorado. He took a day off before the start of the second round.
Coach Pete DeBoer and the top-seeded Stars won a close game against Las Vegas, with each team scoring 16 goals. They will now face the Avalanche, but by the time the puck drops in Game 1 on Tuesday night, it will be a full week since they opened the season with 28 points in five games against one of the league's top defensive teams. It means that it has passed.
“We need to commit to the series to find out how we need to win,” DeBoer said Monday. “When I saw what they did against Winnipeg, my first reaction was I don't think we want to be in the track meet. … At the same time, we didn't want to sit out the entire series. I'm not trying to be defensive. I think there are other layers to our game.”
Dallas is also good at scoring, setting a franchise record with eight 20-point scorers in the regular season, and ranks third in the NHL with 3.59 points per game. The Avs posted a league-best 3.68.
While the Stars hope to carry the advantage from series to series, the Avalanche are using their experience from a long layoff to win a Stanley Cup title in 2022. They had over a week off between the first and second rounds, and another week off before the finals, where they defeated Tampa Bay in six games.
“We went into this week the same way we went back then,” Colorado coach Jared Bednar said. “How to deal with every situation is not just trying to think of the best way to do it. Gather information from your team about rest, work, mood, areas for improvement, etc., and immediately when the puck drops, We’re just fine-tuning everything so we can go.”
In veteran center Nathan MacKinnon's view, the Abs should be ready for one thing: “their best and toughest game,” he said. “We're ready to compete as hard as we can. We're expecting a very, very, very hard series. But we're confident in ourselves. We have a strong team and we feel like we are getting the job done.”
big scorer
Valeri Nichushkin scored seven goals, the most of the 12 Colorado players who found the net in the opening game. Nichushkin and Artturi Lehkonen became the first teammates in NHL history to simultaneously score in five consecutive postseason games.
Only three other teams have opened the playoffs with at least five goals in each of their first five games. The Avs are his first since the last time they won a Stanley Cup title with the 1994 New York Rangers.
Winnipeg allowed an NHL-low 2.41 points per game during the regular season, while standout goaltender Connor Hellebuyck averaged 2.39 points per game in 60 games.
goalkeeper
Stars goaltender Jake Oettinger had a 1.95 goals-against average and a .925 save percentage against the Knights, stopping 73 of 74 shots in the third period or overtime.
Oettinger allowed more than two goals just once in his last 11 regular season games. The only exception was a 7-4 win over Colorado on April 7th. He allowed 14 goals in three games against the Abs during the regular season.
“The numbers in the third period overtime show what we already knew here, which is that he's an opportunity guy,” DeBoer said. “He recognizes the big moments, the big times in series and games. And he has found another level for us, no matter what has happened before. ”
Colorado is 3-1 against the Stars this season, allowing 14 goals, including overtime, with Alexander Georgiev finding the net in every game. In the first round against Winnipeg, he had a GAA of 3.03 and a save percentage of .893.
vet wants a cup
Avalanche forward Zach Parise and Dallas defenseman Ryan Suter are former teammates and good friends who are still looking to win their first Stanley Cup.
Parise and Suter, both 39, spent nine seasons with the Minnesota Wild from 2012-21.
Suter is in his third season with Dallas, signed as a free agent after leaving the Wild, and his 1,444 regular season games are the most by a player without a Cup title. Third on that list is current Stars teammate Joe Pavelski, 39, with 1,332 games, and Parise is fifth with 1,254 games.
Parise has brought a veteran presence to Colorado's lineup since joining the team as a free agent in January. He said this would be his last NHL season.
scoreless jaw
Pavelski's 73 career goals in the playoffs is the most by any U.S.-born player, but in seven straight games against Las Vegas, he had just six shots on goal and no points.
“Regardless of what the stats say, until this is said and done, I have no concerns whatsoever about Joe's imprint on our playoffs,” said DeBoer, who also coached Pavelski in San Jose. No,” he said. “They already participate in everything else he does, both in the dressing room and in the little intangibles on the ice.”
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(The Associated Press contributed to this report)
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