The Dallas Stars started this game with a lead, and then a few players from the Colorado Avalanche came to spoil their moment, including a former CH player.
We knew Cale Makar was full of talent, we know him even more now, he who finished the evening with two goals. We knew Artturi Lehkonen was effective, we know it even more now, he who ended the evening with a goal and a big pass at the end.
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This is a bit why the Avalanche won Game 5 of this series against the Stars, 5-3, Wednesday night in Dallas.
The two clubs will meet again for match number six, another, Friday evening in Denver. Not so insignificant detail: these are all the series of this second round which will at least need the presentation of a sixth match.
How did the Avalanche guys do that? First, by finally taking a lead, their first since the start of this series. Then, by taking advantage of their power play opportunities, time to score two goals with an extra player.
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Artturi Lehkonen (62) and Cale Makar (8)
Makar’s second of the evening was achieved in such circumstances, and then the visitors added two more goals, which sawed the legs of the players in green a little. Nathan MacKinnon scored the insurance goal at the end, and then you’ll go and watch the play again and Lehkonen’s pass just before. It makes you wonder why the Canadian decided that he no longer needed a player like him. (speaking of that, Jonathan Drouin also added an assist Wednesday night, but we digress).
Meanwhile, this battle in front of the goals that should have highly favored the Stars is not favoring them at all. Would we go so far as to say that Alexandar Georgiev is superior to Jake Oettinger? Such a statement would be a bit risky, and also a bit useless, because this series, like almost all the others, is not going to be decided in front of the net. But Georgiev is not the disaster predicted, and on Wednesday evening in any case, he allowed his club to believe it. That’s all we ask of him, no doubt.
Besides, this series is starting to resemble the other three, in the sense that it is very difficult to predict how it will all end. The Avalanche just won that one, but the Stars had won the previous two games by a combined score of 9-2, which perhaps suggests that the Avalanche took advantage of a moment of weakness, or even worse, a surplus of confidence in the adversary, to escape with this victory. It happens even to the best, you know.
But it is still the Stars who are in control, because they are the ones who have a 3-2 lead in this series. It is often said that it is the last victory which is the most difficult to obtain? That’s probably true, but the Stars still have two tries to get there… and two tries to remind everyone that these 113 points obtained during the season were not obtained for nothing.