Stars held on to win Game 3
Defenseman scored two power-play goals, Roope Hintz had a goal and three assists. and the stars beat the Avalanche, 5-3, in Game 2 at Dallas on Thursday night to even their best-of-seven secondround western conference series.
tyler Seguin got his first goal this postseason on a shorthander on a three-on-one breakaway that put the stars up 4-0 late in the second period. esa Lindell added an empty-netter with 20 seconds left, with hintz getting his final assist.
Jake oettinger had 28 saves against colorado, which led the league in scoring in the regular season and is averaging an Nhlhigh 5.0 goals this postseason.
Joel kiviranta, brandon Duhaime, and Valeri nichushkin scored in the third period for the Avalanche.
Game 3 is saturday night in Denver.
colorado had an extra attacker with 3:44 left when Nichushkin got a goal on a puck that ricocheted off his right leg. he has scored in all seven games, matching Pat LaFontaine’s Nhl record set in 1992 with buffalo for the longest goal streak to start a postseason. It also equaled the franchise’s overall postseason goal streak with Claude Lemieux and Joe Sakic.
hintz put Dallas ahead, 2-0, less than two minutes into the second period after colorado failed to score on a power play that carried over from the first.
Dallas led 3-0 with four minutes left in the second period when heiskanen scored.
hintz was serving a holding penalty when seguin got his first shorthander in his 123rd playoff game to make it 4-0.
The Avalanche were hurt by self-induced penalties and going 0 for 3 on power plays. Of their six penalties, they had two for delay of game after knocking pucks into the stands, and two for too many men on the ice.
nathan Mackinnon had the first delay of game penalty, knocking the puck out of his own zone. Dallas capitalized, going up 1-0 after a circle-to-circle pass from hintz to heiskanen with 5:14 left in the first period.
Hurricanes on brink
The Rangers stayed unbeaten in the playoffs with a second straight overtime win, and inched closer to the Eastern conference final when Artemi Panarin redirected a pass between his legs at the crease to beat Pyotr kochetkov just 1:43 into OT for a 3-2 win over the hurricanes Thursday night to take a 3-0 lead in the secondround series.
Panarin ended it after the hurricanes’ Andrei Svechnikov had scored with the extra attacker and only 1:36 left in regulation to tie it in Raleigh, N.c. svechnikov put the puck past diving defenseman Adam Fox and over the shoulder of Igor Shesterkin (45 saves).
The Rangers can complete the sweep saturday.