{"id":194377,"date":"2026-03-07T05:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T05:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/194377\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T05:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T05:49:08","slug":"avalanche-tie-it-late-end-stars-10-game-winning-streak-in-shootout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/194377\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche tie it late, end Stars’ 10-game winning streak in shootout"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nichushkin tied it 4-4 with a shot from the right face-off dot off a backhand feed from Martin Necas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Necas had a goal and three assists, Nathan MacKinnon<\/a> had a goal and two assists, and Cale Makar<\/a> had a goal and an assist for Colorado (42-10-9), who have won four in a row and five of six. Mackenzie Blackwood<\/a> made seven saves on 11 shots before being pulled; Scott Wedgewood<\/a>\u00a0made 10 saves in relief.<\/p>\n

Necas and Nichushkin scored in the shootout, and Wedgewood stopped Jason Robertson<\/a> and Matt Duchene<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Wyatt Johnston and Justin Hryckowian each had a goal and an assist and Jamie Benn scored for Dallas (38-14-10). Jake Oettinger made 24 saves.<\/p>\n

Makar gave Colorado a 1-0 lead at 3:33 in the first period on the power play with a snap shot from the inside of the right face-off circle that sniped the top corner stick-side.<\/p>\n

Miro Heiskanen tied it 1-1 at 7:11 when his point shot deflected off an Avalanche stick in the slot on the power play.<\/p>\n

Johnston gave Dallas a 2-1 lead at 10:39 after he circled behind the net and used Colorado forward Zakhar Bardakov as a screen on a snap shot from the slot.<\/p>\n

Hryckowian made it 3-1 at 16:07 when he put the puck into an open net from the bottom of the left face-off circle after Blackwood had a miscommunication on moving the puck behind his net.<\/p>\n

MacKinnon cut the lead to 3-2 at 19:58 on a one-timer from the bottom of the left face-off circle on the power play.<\/p>\n

Benn gave Dallas a 4-2 lead at 1:52 of the second period when he tucked in a behind-the-net pass from Hryckowian.<\/p>\n

Necas cut the lead to 4-3 at 8:06 from the top of the right face-off circle.<\/p>\n

Dallas forward Roope Hintz left the game late in the second period after a battle along the boards with MacKinnon. He did not put any weight on his left leg as he was helped off the ice by a teammate and a team trainer. It was his first game after missing \u00a0four due to an illness.<\/p>\n

Prior to the game, Dallas general manager Jim Nill said that forward Radek Faksa will be out until near the start of the playoffs after he sustained a lower-body injury while rehabbing an upper-body injury sustained while playing for Czechia in the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nichushkin tied it 4-4 with a shot from the right face-off dot off a backhand feed from Martin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-194377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-headlines","10":"tag-dallas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}