Dallas – Dallas stars will need a little more help from their stars if they want to take over the lead in their first -round series against the Avalanche du Colorado on Monday (9:30 pm HE; Victory+, ESPN, Alt, SN360, SN, VAT).
The 4-de-7 series is also 2-2, but the avalanche has declared the stars by a total score of 13-7 until now. The seven goals of Dallas since the start of the series represent the lowest total NHL on a par with the Devils of the New Jersey and the Lightning of Tampa Bay.
The avalanche captain, Gabriel Landeskog, returned to the game in match no 3 after three years of absence, and he even put on a goal on Saturday, his second meeting.
The stars will still have to wait before finding their top scorer this season, Jason Robertson, and their defender No. 1, Miro Heiskanen, who are still injured in the lower body.
Tyler Seguin has scored two goals so far since the start of the series. Defender Thomas Harley and attackers Jamie Benn, Evgenii Dadonov and Roope Hintz each scored one. Matt Duchene, Mikael Granlund, Wyatt Johnston, Mikko Rantanen and Mason Marchment have still not found the bottom of the net.
“None of our leading players really deliver the goods so far,” said the stars head coach Peter Deboer. “” [Rantanen] is not the only one concerned. But what is good is that it is not too late. They are due to mark as we enter the most important segment of this series. »»
The teams that have 3-2 advance in a series prevail, historically, 79.2 % of the time (357-94).
Here is what you will have to monitor during match no 5:
Avalanche : Nathan Mackinnon leads the NHL with three goals in numerical superiority since the start of the series. He also reached the set of four goals in the same confrontation for the fourth time in his career on Saturday. Mackenzie Blackwood succeeded in the last match, the first white game in his series career. It presents a 2-2 file with an average of 1.60 purposes allocated per game and an efficiency rate of, 939 until now against the stars.
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