Mikko Rantanen scored, and Alexandar Georgiev made 19 saves for the Avalanche, who’re the No. 3 seed from the Central.
“I felt like we carried some lengthy stretches of the sport for the primary 40 minutes. My one take could be we’ve acquired to make it a little bit bit more durable on Oettinger, getting site visitors there,” Colorado coach Jared Bednar mentioned. “We had a few actually attractiveness within the first and did not do it. We had a few actually attractiveness within the second and subsequent factor you recognize, we’re down by one.
“Simply form of appears like we push, push, push after which we make one mistake and it ended up behind the web within the second, which is unlucky. However you possibly can’t make these errors in opposition to Dallas as a result of they’ve the flexibility to [capitalize].”
Stankoven gave Dallas a 1-0 lead at 18:39 of the primary interval on a wrist shot from the left face-off circle that went previous the arm of Georgiev. It was the rookie’s first profession playoff aim.
“I feel it’s at all times good to contribute. I really feel like I’ve been doing the proper issues however simply couldn’t discover the again of the web,” Stankoven mentioned. “There’s at all times bumps within the highway being a younger man within the League, so I’m simply looking for my approach and earn the coaches’ belief.”
Rantanen tied it 1-1 at 10:24 of the second interval on a rebound of Nathan MacKinnon’s shot within the crease. MacKinnon deked round Stars defenseman Chris Tanev and put his shot off the leg of Evgenii Dadonov.
“I believed we did plenty of nice issues. We actually had plenty of possibilities, plenty of attractiveness,” MacKinnon mentioned. “Simply Oettinger was nice, and we made a few huge errors that value us.”
Seguin put the Stars again forward 2-1 at 15:13 when he deflected a cross-ice cross from Dadonov on the far aspect of the web.
“We knew coming into this rink how these guys play. We additionally know the way we play on the highway,” mentioned Seguin. “We knew it’d be a giant problem. I feel subsequent recreation’s going to be a fair larger problem, however playoffs are about these moments and getting the proper bounces at occasions as properly, and we had that tonight.”