Dallas Stars at Colorado Avalanche: game preview
DallasStars2026-27: 1-2-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 50-20-12 · 112 pts · 3rdat
ColoradoAvalanche2026-27: 2-0-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 55-16-11 · 121 pts · 1stNine points apart last season
Dallas finished last season 3rd in the league on 112 points. Colorado finished 1st on 121, and the 2025-26 season series went DAL 2-1-1.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 168
Across 167 completed games, Colorado lead the head-to-head 85-58-24.
Last 5 meetings
See all: Last 5 meetings →The table on each 2025-26 meeting night
League rank after that night's games; a longer bar is a higher place. On 11 Oct 2025, Dallas were 6th in the league and Colorado 3rd. By 4 Apr 2026 it was 4th and 1st.
Colorado out-attempted Dallas 333 to 221
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Dallas Stars
Colorado Avalanche
Colorado have created the better chances, last 10 games
Shot quality both ways: expected goals weigh every unblocked attempt by its chance of scoring. Finishing above zero means more goals than the chances.
This season: 3 games for Dallas, 2 for Colorado. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Dallas, 10 for Colorado.
2025-26: 82 games for Dallas, 82 for Colorado.
Power play and penalty kill, season and series
This season's rates first, then 2025-26 and the last meetings between the two. Power-play chances are counted from the penalty log with coincidental minors cancelled; faceoffs are each club's wins over draws taken.
All bars share one scale · 0–100%SeasonLast meetings
Dallas
Small sampleColorado
Small sampleNathan MacKinnon has 9 points in the last 5 meetings
Each club's top three forwards and defencemen by points this season, with 2025-26 one tap away, then who has produced in the last meetings.
Nathan MacKinnon vs Dallas · game by game
See all: Nathan MacKinnon vs Dallas · game by game →Scott Wedgewood has started most of these meetings
Scott Wedgewood played 4 of the last 5 meetings with Dallas, with a .925 save percentage. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Jake Oettinger
See all: Jake Oettinger →DAL · 1-1-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 11 Oct
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Casey DeSmith .923 (1 GP)
Full game logScott Wedgewood
See all: Scott Wedgewood →COL · 31-6-6 in 2025-26 Starter estimate from 11 Oct
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Mackenzie Blackwood .912 (2 GP)
Full game logScoring rates point to about 6.2 goals
No total is posted yet: it arrives with the game-day prices. Until then, the scoring rates and the recent meetings set the range.
Goals in the last 5 meetings
Bar length is total goals, coloured by the winner.
Scoring rates
Dallas2.002.003.402.76
Colorado7.002.503.682.48Goals for and against per game. The estimate averages each team’s scoring with the other’s goals allowed, and leans on 2025-26 until a team has played 20 games.
8 on the injury lists
Dallas · injuries
Colorado · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Assigned D Cameron Bertucci to Texas (AHL).
Placed F Matt Duchene on long-term injured reserve retroactive to Sept. 29. Recalled Fs Arttu Hyry and Colin Blackwell from Texas (AHL).
Signed G Casey DeSmith to a two-year contract.
Placed LD Keaton Middleton, LD Wyatt Aamodt, RW/LW Fabian Lysell, C Vinnie Hinostroza, LW Adam Beckman and LW Tristen Nielsen on waivers.
Placed D Keaton Middleton, D Wyatt Aamodt, LW Fabian Lysell, C Vinnie Hinostroza, LW Adam Beckman and G Mads Sogaard Nielsen on waivers.
Reassigned Ds Domenick Fensore, Saige Weinstein and Christian Wolanin to Colorado (AHL).
Dallas · 2026 draft
See all: Dallas · 2026 draft →Colorado · 2026 draft
See all: Colorado · 2026 draft →Wednesday 14 October · the full slate
See all: Wednesday 14 October · the full slate →
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