Since the Stanley Cup win in 2022, the Avalanche have won just one playoff series and lost two Game 7s in the process. With MacKinnon and Cale Makar at the height of their primes, Colorado has to find a way to get back over the playoff hump for another deep run.

After calling the first six games of the series on Victory+, the Stars’ play-by-play team of Josh Bogorad and Daryl “Razor” Reaugh was relegated to radio duty on Sportsradio 96.7 FM/1310 AM The Ticket (KTCK-AM), as the television feed was an exclusive broadcast for the national outlet.

The Dallas Stars advance to the second round of the NHL playoffs, beating the Colorado Avalanche 4-2 in Game 7.Mikko Rantanen assisted on Wyatt Johnston's tiebreaking power-play goal with 3:56 left before completing a third-period hat trick with an empty-netter as the Dallas Stars beat the Colorado Avalanche 4-2 in Game 7 on Saturday night to wrap up the first-round Western Conference playoff series.