The Dallas stars will make a change to their alignment with a view to match number 5 of their series against the Colorado avalanche.
The striker Mavrik Bourque will be left out for the benefit of Oskar Back. Dallas returns home for this fifth duel while the series is equal 2 to 2.
The Quebecer competed in meetings No. 1 and 4 of this first round series and was bleached from the scoring sheet. The stars lost these two games.
The head coach Peter Deboer also announced that Miro Heiskanen will not be back in alignment on Monday.
Heiskanen has been absent from alignment since January after having undergone a knee. The defender of the stars resumed training before the start of the playoffs and his condition is evaluated daily by the doctors of the team.
In 50 games before his injury, the Finn had collected five goals and 20 assists.
Replaced by Casey Desmith after two game periods on Saturday despite 31 stops on 34 throws, Jake Oettinger will be back in front of the stars net. The American presents a file of 2-2 with an average of allocated 2.72 goals and an efficiency rate of, 911 since the start of the series.
On the avalanche side, we will undoubtedly want to continue on the excellent performance offered by the team on Saturday in Denver.
The men of Jared Bednar completely dominated the stars to win 4 to 0 behind an advantage of 48 to 23 in terms of throws. Mackenzie Blackwood took the opportunity to make the first white game in his series career.
The captain of the Gabriel Landeskog team took the opportunity to score a first goal in 1041 days, since June 20, 2022 during the Stanley Cup final against the Lightning of Tampa Bay.
The Swedish made his comeback in match no 3 of the series after an absence of almost three years.
