In Dallas, the Colorado Avalanche fell behind, 3-0, to the Stars on Saturday night, then reeled off six unanswered goals in a 6-3 win.
Tyler Sequin scored once in the first period and once in the middle frame with a Joe Pavelski power play goal in between, in the opening stanza for the 3-0 advantage to the Stars.
“Something I never would have predicted,” Seguin said. “It’s not us. I don’t recall the last time this happened to us where we’ve been up three and then give up the game like that. We’re happy it happened now, where it’s not a playoff game or it’s not late in the season. It’s a great learning tool for us to study and learn from.”
The Stars dropped to 11-4-1.
“Just goes to show you how fine of a line it is when you’re going good and when it turns the either way,” Pavelski said. “It’s a lesson early on that we can learn from. No lead is really safe. Have to keep putting teams away, keep doing it the right way. It’s alright if we’ve got to learn it right now. Good teams, if you give them a little space and give them a little confidence, they get moving, and you see what they can do.”
Alexandar Georgiev made 25 saves in the win.
The Avalanche moved to 11-5-0.
“I think tonight, we knew we were playing well and we still had that belief that we could win,”the Avs’ Cale Makar said. “It was a very lively bench, very lively game, and it’s a lot of fun when the guys are playing like that. When we’re controlling the pace of the game, that’s the way we like to play. Credit to a lot of forwards tonight, I feel like they did a really good job.”
The Avs scored twice in the middle frame to get back to within one, at 3-2.
Miles Wood trimmed the deficit to 3-1 at 13:27 of the second off a breakaway.
Ryan Johansen potted a power play goal at 17:09 to give the Avalanche more life at 3-2.
The Avs hit for four goals in the third, starting with Valeri Nichushkin‘s tying marker at 4:19 .
“It was a close game all night long, in my opinion,” Colorado coach Jared Bednar said. “I know the scoring kind of wasn’t [good] for them, great for us, but I thought it was a well-played hockey game.”
In quick succession, Mikko Rantanen put the Avs up 4-3, and just 11 seconds later Andrew Cogliano added insurance with a 5-3 score at 14:43.
Ross Colton hit an empty net with 30 seconds left on the game clock for the 6-3 final score.
Jake Oettinger made 32 saves in the loss.
“I feel better coming out of this game because of how we played for long stretches of the game against a really good team,” Dallas coach Peter DeBoer said. “I thought we really, really controlled the play for long periods of time. We’ve got to learn to handle those momentum swings better, learn to play with the lead better. Those are all the learning things there. Learn to push back in the third there instead of sag. We definitely showed that we can play with the Colorado Avalanche, that’s a good thing. We’ve just got things we need to clean up.”
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