NHL Playoff Preview: Colorado Avalanche at Dallas Stars with Line Combinations 4/28/2025

Dallas Stars (2-2-0) at Colorado Avalanche (2-0-2)

Venue: American Airlines Arena
Date: Monday, April 28
Time: 9:30 pm EST
TV: ESPN/ALT/SN360/Sportnes/TVAS
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 -42
Dallas: +1.5 ML +120
O/U 6.5

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Colorado Avalanche News & Notes:

The Avalanche evened the series up at 2-2 behind a shutout on Saturday night. They are now averaging 3.3 goals per game in this series. Mackenzie Blackwood is posting a 1.60 goals-against average and a .939 save percentage. He stopped all 23 shots he faced on Saturday.

Dallas Stars News & Notes:

The Stars return home with the series now down to a best-of-three and they own home ice advantage. They are averaging 1.8 goals per game in the series now. Jake Oettinger now has a 2.72 goals-against average and a .911 save percentage. He stopped 31 of the 34 shots he faced on Saturday.

Colorado Avalanche Projected Lines

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

Toews-Makar
Girard-Manson
Lindgren-Malinski

Blackwood  
Wedgewood

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Dallas Stars Projected Lines:

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

Lindell-Ceci
Harley-Lyubushkin
Bichsel-Petrovic

Oettinger
DeSmith

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Players To Watch:

Colorado Avalanche

Gabriel Landeskog returned for game three for the first time in three seasons. He recorded a goal and an assist on Saturday.

Dallas Stars

Jamie Benn had 49 points this season on 16 goals and 33 assists. He has a goal and an assist in this series. In the regular season, in three games, he had two goals and an assist.

Injury Report:

Colorado Avalanche

D Tucker Poolman – IR
C Ross Colton – DTD

Dallas Stars

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

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