Avs rally late for 3-2 win over Dallas

In Denver, the Colorado Avalanche took advantage of a road-weary Dallas Stars team and rallied from the 2-1 deficit to grab a 3-2 win.

“There’s always belief in this team in this locker room,” Rantanen said. “We know if we go down we know we can come back. It’s shown a lot of times this year.”

The game-winner came with less than two minutes remaining in regulation.

“I like what J.T. has been doing lately, he has a hot stick,” Avs head coach Jared Bednar said. “We were running out of time and I wanted to get him out there with some guys that might have a chance to score. That was the biggest shift of the game for us. You’re down 2-1, you have three young guys go out and hound the puck. They were getting above it, creating a secondary forecheck, created a couple chances and J.T. winds up banging in a rebound.”

Semyon Varlamov made 27 saves to get the win for Colorado who improved to 13-64.

Radek Faksa and Jamie Benn scored early in the third period to give the Stars a 2-1 lead.

“We battled hard in the third, got a lead and [let] it get away at the end,” Benn said. “We need to learn how to manage the game when we have a lead.”

Nathan MacKinnon scored midway through the second [period to give the Avs a 1-0 lead.

Dallas dropped to 12-10-2 with the loss.

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Anton Khudobin made 33 saves in the loss.

“It’s frustrating,” Stars forward Blake Comeau said. “It felt like we grinded hard all game, did a lot of good things all game and found a way to get a lead with five minutes left. To come away with not a single point at the minimum, it’s frustrating. It’s tough to look back on it and find the positives after something like that.”