Colorado Avalanche at Dallas Stars: game preview
ColoradoAvalanche2026-27: 2-0-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 55-16-11 · 121 pts · 1stat
DallasStars2026-27: 1-2-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 50-20-12 · 112 pts · 3rdNine points apart last season
Colorado finished last season 1st in the league on 121 points. Dallas finished 3rd on 112, and the 2025-26 season series went COL 2-0-2.
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, Colorado were 3rd in the league and Dallas 6th. By 4 Apr 2026 it was 1st and 4th.
Colorado out-attempted Dallas 333 to 221
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Colorado Avalanche
Dallas Stars
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: 2 games for Colorado, 3 for Dallas. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Colorado, 10 for Dallas.
2025-26: 82 games for Colorado, 82 for Dallas.
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
Colorado
Small sampleDallas
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.
Scott Wedgewood
See all: Scott Wedgewood →COL · 31-6-6 in 2025-26 Starter estimate from 19 Jan
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Mackenzie Blackwood .912 (2 GP)
Full game logJake Oettinger
See all: Jake Oettinger →DAL · 1-1-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 19 Jan
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Casey DeSmith .923 (1 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
Colorado7.002.503.682.48
Dallas2.002.003.402.76Goals 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
Colorado · injuries
Dallas · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →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).
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.
Colorado · 2026 draft
See all: Colorado · 2026 draft →Dallas · 2026 draft
See all: Dallas · 2026 draft →Friday 22 January · the full slate
See all: Friday 22 January · the full slate →
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