Deciding Blow in the Shootout
The Dallas Stars beat the Colorado Avalanche 3-2 in a shootout on Wednesday at Ball Arena in Denver. Regulation and overtime ended 2-2, and Roope Hintz scored with a wrist shot in the fourth round to decide it.
Jason Robertson scored for Dallas in the first round and Nazem Kadri for Colorado in the second, and neither team scored in the third. After Hintz scored, Casey DeSmith stopped Brock Nelson. The win moved the Stars to 3-3-1 with seven points, while the Avalanche fell to 4-2-1 with nine points.
Regulation Tug-of-War
The first period ended scoreless. Gabriel Landeskog broke the deadlock for Colorado at 4:55 of the second with his second goal of the season, a tip-in assisted by Kadri and Sam Malinski.
The Stars tied it 1-1 at 15:03. Miro Heiskanen scored his third goal of the season with a wrist shot, assisted by Mikko Rantanen and Thomas Harley. Arttu Hyry gave Dallas a 2-1 lead 1:20 into the third period with an unassisted shorthanded backhand.
