{"id":547353,"date":"2026-03-19T19:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T19:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/547353\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T19:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T19:08:07","slug":"stars-proved-they-can-hang-with-avalanche-with-ot-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/547353\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars proved they can hang with Avalanche with OT win"},"content":{"rendered":"

While intriguing playoff races and battles for seeding are taking places across the NHL, none of them quite compare to clash of titans at the top of the Central Division. The Colorado Avalanche<\/a> and Dallas Stars<\/a>, who also sit first and second in the NHL\u2019s leaguewide standings<\/a>, are in a race to take first place in the division and not only avoid the dangerous Minnesota Wild<\/a> in the first round, but grab home-ice advantage for a potential second-round matchup between the two powerhouses.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, we got the penultimate meeting between the rivals this regular season, with Dallas claiming a 2-1 overtime victory over Colorado, despite getting outshot 34-18 and generating far fewer expected goals, according to Natural Stat Trick<\/a>. Regardless, the NHL is about results, and the Stars\u2019 win brought them to within two points of the Avalanche in the standings and showed their mettle as a likely playoff opponent for Colorado down the road.<\/p>\n

On Thursday\u2019s episode of\u00a0Daily Faceoff LIVE<\/a>,\u00a0hosts Tyler Yaremchuk and former NHL goaltender Carter Hutton discussed the importance of Dallas\u2019 win over Colorado on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Tyler\u00a0Yaremchuk:\u00a0That was a hell of a hockey game last night, and showed again that Dallas, despite the shot clock, despite the expected goals, all of that stuff, they are capable of being right there with this Colorado team.<\/p>\n

Carter\u00a0Hutton:\u00a0I think this is a big win for Dallas in the sense of just putting doubt in Colorado\u2019s head again. You listen to Nathan MacKinnon last year after that playoff series loss being like \u201cThey didn\u2019t even have (Miro) Heiskanen, we couldn\u2019t beat them at their best.\u201d I remember that quote because it was something that felt like he was so defeated. Now you\u2019re going in there and you\u2019re playing without (Mikko) Rantanen, you\u2019re playing without Roope Hintz, and they still find a way to win that hockey game for the Dallas Stars. This is with Jason Robertson, who didn\u2019t play in that playoff series last year, which is another thing to be noted. He never came back until the Winnipeg series. I think for Rantanen and Hintz, that\u2019s a motivation to come back and play through Minnesota and get a chance to go there. <\/p>\n

You can catch the full discussion and the rest of Thursday\u2019s episode here\u2026<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While intriguing playoff races and battles for seeding are taking places across the NHL, none of them quite…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-547353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}