In Denver, the Colorado Avalanche had their 19-game point streak come to a close on Tuesday night when the Dallas Stars hung a 4-1 loss on them.
“Somebody had to come in here and break the streak,” Stars head coach Rick Bowness said. “We’re the team to do it.”
Jake Oettinger made 46 saves in the Stars win.
“[Colorado is] the best team in hockey, and you’re playing with, like, half your lungs out there pretty much (due to the altitude), so I knew I was going to have to weather the storm a little bit,” Oettinger said. “The guys just did so many good things in front of me.
“If they let me see [the puck] and tie up guys around the net, then I think we’ll have success. Ton of blocks, and a couple of saved goals, and all around it was just huge for our team.”
Nathan MacKinnon was the lone strikers for the Avs.
“I thought we created plenty [of] scoring chances to win the hockey game,” Colorado’s Gabriel Landeskog said. “First period, we gave up odd-man rushes, which we don’t like to do and shouldn’t do. I thought after that we limited their scoring chances for the most part.”
The Avalanche dropped to 34-9-4.
“I don’t think we did enough around the net to make it difficult enough on Oettinger,” Avalanche head coach Jared Bednar said. “Five-on-5, though, I liked our game. I thought it was good. No problems with it at all. At the end of the day, we gave them one, right? [Francouz] behind the goal line, we handed them that one. They got a power-play goal, one I think is goalie interference, and then they got an empty net. They won the special teams battle tonight.”
Joe Pavelski hit for a double for the Stars.
Dallas improved to 26-19-2.
“I think it was the best performance I’ve ever seen from [Oettinger],” the Stars’ Jason Robertson (goal) said. “Spectacular, it’s great to see all his hard work pay off. He really was the key in getting us this win.”
Tyler Seguin added a late empty-net goal for the 4-1 final.
Pavel Francouz made 16 saves in the Avs loss.
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