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Colorado Avalanche at Dallas Stars
Friday January 29
7:30 pm
TV: FSN | Radio: KTCK 1310-AM

I really give our team credit because down 3-1, we very easily could have folded. But we had everybody battling," said Stars head coach Marc Crawford.

Alex Auld, who has won his last five home starts and is 5-0-1 at American Airlines Center this season, is expected to get the start on Friday.

Injuries: RW Jere Lehtinen (neck) is questionable. C Tom Wandell (knee) and Mike Ribeiro (throat) are out.

"They are probably the hardest team in the league to play against because all they do is just play defense," said Colorado center Matt Duchene. "It seems like they don't even try to go on offense at all. They just try to force us to make mistakes and that's when they score."

Minnesota's Martin Havlat scored with 4:49 left in the game, snapping Colorado goalie Craig Anderson's shutout streak at 126 minutes, 24 seconds.

Injuries: D Adam Foote (ankle), RW Milan Hejduk (knee), D Ruslan Salei (back), RW Marek Svatos (chest), C Matt Hendricks (ankle) and RW David Jones (knee) are out.

• This is the third of four meetings between the two teams. Colorado is 2-0-0 in the season series and the Stars are 0-2-0.

• Colorado has allowed three goals in the last five games.
• The Stars have won four straight at home and seven of their last eight at American Airlines Center.
• The Stars are 6-24 on the power play in their last seven home games.
• The Avalanche have allowed one power play goal in the last six games, going 25-26 on the penalty kill during that stretch.
• The Stars have allowed 12 power play goals over their last nine games overall.
• Stars center Mike Modano has four goals in his last seven games.