Stars top Avalanche again to take control of series
Tyler Seguin scored a go-ahead goal late in the second period and iced the game with a marker into an empty net as the Dallas Stars beat the Colorado Avalanche 4-1 in Game 3 of their NHL Western Conference semifinal series in Denver on Saturday night.
Logan Stankoven also had two goals and Jake Oettinger made 28 saves for Dallas, which leads the bestof-seven series 2-1 and took back home-ice advantage. The Avalanche’s only lead in the series came on Miles Wood’s overtime goal in Game 1.
The Stars can put Colorado on the brink of elimination with a win in Game 4 in Denver on Monday (9:30 p.m. EDT, ESPN).
The game was tied at 1-1 when Dallas broke out on an odd-man rush. Evgenii Dadonov stickhandled the puck into the left circle and sent a pass to Seguin on the other side of the net, and Seguin redirected it by Alexandar Georgiev at 15:13 of the second.
The Stars protected that lead throughout the third period. Georgiev came off for an extra skater with 1:50 left, and Seguin scored his third goal of the playoffs at 18:23. Stankoven scored another empty-netter, his second goal of the night, at 19:32.
“That was one of the best third periods we’ve played the whole postseason. Just being smart and not taking penalties,” Oettinger said. “I don’t think they had many scoring chances in the third, so we learned from our mistakes in Games 1 and 2.”