NHL Playoff Preview: Colorado Avalanche at Dallas Stars with Line Combinations 4/19/2025

NHL Playoff Preview: Colorado Avalanche at Dallas Stars with Line Combinations 4/19/2025

Colorado Avalanche at Dallas Stars

Venue: American Airlines Center
Date: Saturday, April 19
Time: 8:30 pm EST
TV: TNT/truTV/MAX
Radio:
Colorado – Altitude Sports Radio 92.5 FM / 950 AM
Dallas – The Ticket 96.7 FM / 1310 AM

DraftKings Sportsbook Betting Lines:

Colorado: -1.5 ML -122
Dallas: +1.5 ML +102
O/U 5.5

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Colorado Avalanche News & Notes:

The Avalanche finished the regular season 5-4-1, averaging 3.3 goals per game while allowing an average of 2.8 goals per game. They finished 2-1-0 against Dallas this season.

Dallas Stars News & Notes:

The Stars have lost seven straight games to end the regular season. They went 3-5-2 in their final ten games, averaging 3.1 goals per game while allowing 3.7 goals per game. They went 1-1-1 against Colorado this season and were outscored 13-11.

Colorado Avalanche Projected Lines

Lehkonen-MacKinnon-Necas
Drouin-Nelson-Nichushkin  
Kiviranta-Coyle-Colton
Kelly-Drury-O’Connor

Toews-Makar
Girard-Manson
Lindgren-Johnson

Blackwood  
Wedgewood

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Dallas Stars Projected Lines:

Robertson-Hintz-Granlund
Marchment-Duchene-Seguin
Benn-Johnston-Rantanen
Dadanov-Steel-Bourque

Harley-Lyubushkin-
Lindell-Ceci
Smith-Dumba

Oettinger
DeSmith

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Players To Watch:

Colorado Avalanche

Cale Makar this season has 92 points on 30 goals and 62 assists. This season against the Stars, he had seven points on three goals and four assists. He was a plus-four.

Dallas Stars

Matt Duchene this season has 82 points on 30 goals and 52 assists. This season, he was a plus-one against the team that drafted him. He has four points on two goals and two assists.

Injury Report:

Colorado Avalanche

LW Gabriel Landeskog – IR
D Tucker Poolman – IR

Dallas Stars

LW Jason Robertson – DTD
D Nils Lundkvist – IR
D Miro Heiskenen – IR

Next Game

Game 2: 4/21 at American Airlines

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