Game

Avalanche at Stars

Avalanche 5, Stars 4 in a shootout · first star Martin Necas (1 G, 3 A).

2025-26 regular season · Preseason. The 2026-27 regular season starts Sep 29. Data as of September 28, 2026, source NHL.

Colorado Avalanche 5 at Dallas Stars 4

Avalanche COL

5 FINAL/SO 4

Stars DAL

Friday, March 6, 2026 · 8:00 PM ET · American Airlines Center, Dallas

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	1OT	SO	T	SOG
Avalanche	2	1	1	0	1	5	29
Stars	3	1	0	0	0	4	21

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Avalanche attack left, Stars attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 2 marks in a team's own end are attempts logged from there: empty-net shots, long dumps on the net. Boxscore shots on goal: COL 29, DAL 21.

COL in red DAL in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Avalanche 29 shots on goal (4 goals, 11 missed, 18 blocked) attacking left; Stars 21 shots on goal (4 goals, 16 missed, 12 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	COL SOG	COL G	COL ATT	DAL SOG	DAL G	DAL ATT
1st	11	2	17	10	3	20
2nd	9	1	21	6	1	13
3rd	7	1	17	3	0	12
OT	2	0	3	2	0	4
Total	29	4	58	21	4	49

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	COL SOG	COL G	DAL SOG	DAL G
Even strength	20	2	18	3
Power play	8	2	3	1
Short-handed	1	0	0	0

Attempt share by period

Avalanche took 54.2% of the shot attempts, and 52.1% of the 71 attempts taken at 5-on-5. An attempt is a goal, a shot on goal, a miss or a blocked shot; CF% is the share of them belonging to the Stars and FF% their share of the ones that were not blocked, so the Avalanche hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Avalanche at Stars
Period	DAL CF%	DAL FF%
1st	54.0	53.3
2nd	38.2	40.9
3rd	41.4	45.0
OT	57.1	60.0
Game	45.8	48.0

Team totals only: per-player on-ice numbers need shift data, which this source does not publish.

Scoring summary

1st period

03:33 Cale Makar (19) PP Nathan MacKinnon (60), Martin Necas (46) · snap 1–0
07:11 Miro Heiskanen (8) PP Jason Robertson (39), Wyatt Johnston (33) · snap 1–1
10:39 Wyatt Johnston (34) Miro Heiskanen (44), Jason Robertson (40) · snap 1–2
16:07 Justin Hryckowian (9) Mavrik Bourque (14) · snap 1–3
19:58 Nathan MacKinnon (42) PP Martin Necas (47), Cale Makar (47) · slap 2–3

2nd period

01:52 Jamie Benn (11) Justin Hryckowian (12), Mavrik Bourque (15) · snap 2–4
08:06 Martin Necas (28) Nathan MacKinnon (61), Gabriel Landeskog (20) · snap 3–4

3rd period

19:45 Valeri Nichushkin (13) Martin Necas (48), Brock Nelson (23) · snap 4–4

Shootout

00:00 Valeri Nichushkin Unassisted · snap 5–4

Three stars

Martin Necas COL · C #88 · 1 G, 3 A
Nathan MacKinnon COL · C #29 · 1 G, 2 A
Miro Heiskanen DAL · D #4 · 1 G, 1 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	02:28	DAL	Oskar Bäck	holding the stick	2	Zakhar Bardakov
1st	05:56	COL	Jack Drury	holding	2	Nathan Bastian
1st	16:48	DAL	Justin Hryckowian	high sticking	2	Cale Makar
1st	19:46	DAL	Mavrik Bourque	interference	2	Nicolas Roy
2nd	08:11	DAL	Sam Steel	slashing	2	Brent Burns
2nd	19:43	COL	Josh Manson	cross checking	2	Nils Lundkvist
3rd	05:20	COL	Brett Kulak	high sticking	2	Justin Hryckowian
3rd	06:56	COL	Bench	too many men on the ice	2	—
3rd	14:40	DAL	Nathan Bastian	tripping	2	Cale Makar

Boxscore

Colorado Avalanche

Avalanche skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Martin Necas #88	C	1	3	4	+1	5	2	0	0	0.0	26:55
Nathan MacKinnon #29	C	1	2	3	+1	2	0	1	0	70.0	27:21
Cale Makar #8	D	1	1	2	-1	2	1	2	0	0.0	27:46
Valeri Nichushkin #13	R	1	0	1	0	3	1	1	0	0.0	19:15
Brock Nelson #11	C	0	1	1	0	2	0	1	0	42.9	24:50
Gabriel Landeskog #92	L	0	1	1	+1	2	2	1	0	69.2	22:54
Gavin Brindley #54	C	0	0	0	-1	2	1	1	0	0.0	07:07
Jack Drury #18	C	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0	2	46.2	11:38
Nicolas Roy #10	C	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	28.6	08:46
Parker Kelly #17	C	0	0	0	-1	0	1	1	0	0.0	12:46
Ross Colton #20	C	0	0	0	0	2	10	0	0	100.0	13:46
Zakhar Bardakov #93	C	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0.0	06:09
Joel Kiviranta #94	L	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	10:54
Brent Burns #84	D	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	17:12
Brett Kulak #27	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	2	0.0	16:07
Devon Toews #7	D	0	0	0	-2	5	1	1	0	0.0	23:43
Josh Manson #42	D	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	2	0.0	15:36
Sam Malinski #70	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	17:12

Avalanche goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Mackenzie Blackwood #39	—	11	7	4	.636	6/9	1/2	21:47
Scott Wedgewood #41	W	10	10	0	1.000	9/9	1/1	41:01

Dallas Stars

Stars skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Justin Hryckowian #49	C	1	1	2	+1	2	3	1	2	27.3	20:22
Wyatt Johnston #53	C	1	1	2	0	1	1	0	0	46.2	24:14
Miro Heiskanen #4	D	1	1	2	+1	2	0	1	0	0.0	31:46
Mavrik Bourque #22	C	0	2	2	+1	1	0	1	2	100.0	17:10
Jason Robertson #21	L	0	2	2	0	3	0	1	0	0.0	22:12
Jamie Benn #14	L	1	0	1	-1	2	3	0	0	100.0	15:27
Colin Blackwell #15	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	50.0	10:37
Matt Duchene #95	C	0	0	0	-1	3	0	0	0	47.1	17:41
Oskar Bäck #10	C	0	0	0	+1	0	1	1	2	0.0	10:53
Roope Hintz #24	C	0	0	0	+1	1	2	1	0	50.0	11:26
Sam Steel #18	C	0	0	0	+1	1	2	1	2	0.0	17:47
Adam Erne #73	L	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0.0	12:09
Nathan Bastian #11	R	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	0.0	08:16
Esa Lindell #23	D	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	0.0	25:48
Ilya Lyubushkin #46	D	0	0	0	+1	1	2	2	0	0.0	10:20
Lian Bichsel #6	D	0	0	0	+1	1	1	0	0	0.0	12:37
Nils Lundkvist #5	D	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0.0	15:46
Thomas Harley #55	D	0	0	0	-1	1	0	3	0	0.0	23:36

Stars goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jake Oettinger #29	O	29	25	4	.862	18/20	6/8	64:36

SOG shots on goal · BLK blocked shots · FO% faceoff win percentage · EV / PP saves over shots by strength. Skaters sorted by points, then goals.

Source NHL (boxscore, play-by-play, game summary). Shot locations are the league's tracked coordinates; the chart and the situation tables are computed by Play-Pause Hockey. Data as of 2026-09-28.