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The Colorado Avalanche (10-5-0, 20 points, 2nd Central) take to the road on Saturday to visit Central division rival the Dallas Stars (11-3-1, 23 points, 1st Central) in a battle between the top two teams in the division. Colorado defeated the Anaheim Ducks 8-2 on Wednesday and have won each of the last two and are within three points of first place Dallas. The Stars defeated the Arizona Coyotes 4-3 in overtime on Tuesday and have won four straight to pass Colorado. Colorado will play without G Pavel Francouz, LW Gabriel Landeskog, LW Artturi Lehkonen and RW Chris Wagner. Dallas will play without D Jerad Rosburg.
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The Colorado Avalanche are averaging 3.67 goals per game which is 10th best in the NHL. Colorado is averaging 33.8 shots per game which is fifth best but it's power play is below average, scoring 18.2% of the time the Avalanche have the man advantage, which is 21st. Colorado is winning 47.5% of its face-offs, which is 24th. Mikko Rantanen is the leading goal scorer for Colorado with 10 and also has a team best 21 points. The second leading goal scorer is Nathan MacKinnon with six. Defenseman Cale Makar is the assists leader with 17 and is tied for first in points with Rantanen at 21.
The Avalanche are allowing an average of 3.07 goals per game which is 14th while allowing an average of 28.4 shots per game which is 7th. Colorado's penalty kill unit is 8th, holding opponents scoreless 85.7% of the time that t he Avalanche are short-handed. Alexandar Georgiev is 9-4-0 with a 3.01 goals against average, .890 save percentage, and one shutout. Colorado has won three of the last four that Georgiev has been in goal.
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