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Home » Sports Betting News » NHL » NHL News » Stars vs Avalanche: NHL Second Round Series Playoff Betting

Stars vs Avalanche: NHL Second Round Series Playoff Betting

Barry Barger by Barry Barger
Aug 26, 2020, 2:28pm ET
in NHL News
Coming up Dallas Stars vs Colorado Avalanche, on image Radek Faksa #12 of the Dallas Stars scores against the Colorado Avalanche in Game Two

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The Dallas Stars only won one round-robin game in the NHL Bubble, nipping the reigning champion St. Louis Blues in a shootout. The Stars shone more brightly in Round 1, dousing the Calgary Flames in six games. Dallas advanced to play a team it owned in head-to-head combat in the 2019-20 regular season, the Colorado Avalanche. 

The Colorado Avalanche fared pretty well in the round-robin tournament. Colorado smothered the Blues, blanked Dallas 4-0, and only lost to Vegas in an overtime thriller. Then the Avalanche buried the Arizona Coyotes alive in Round 1, pounding them relentlessly with a blizzard of goals. Colorado scored 22 goals to Arizona’s eight, euthanizing the poor creatures in five games. 

The Colorado Avalanche and Dallas Stars were ranked second and third in the Central Division, respectively. Now they have that exact same seeding here in their Round 2 matchup. Dallas, not especially well-known as an offensive powerhouse, has jumped all over Colorado to take a 2-0 series lead.


The Avalanche are favored to win Game 3, but how can you bet against the Stars right now? Visit our sportsbook to see what NHL betting options feel the best to you, in your gut.  

Series Schedule 

Saturday, Aug. 22- Stars 5, Avalanche 3 

Monday, Aug. 24- Stars 5, Avalanche 2  

Wednesday, Aug. 26- Avalanche vs Stars, 10:30 p.m. ET – NBCSN 

Friday, Aug. 28- Avalanche vs Stars, 10 p.m. ET – NBCSN

Sunday, Aug. 30 – Stars vs Avalanche, TBD

Monday, Aug. 31 – Avalanche vs Stars, TBD

Wednesday, Sept. 2- Stars vs Avalanche– TBD

Head-to-Head 

The Stars have straight dominated in recent head-to-head action, and that trend has continued in their second-round series. Dallas is 6-1 overall vs Colorado in the 2019-20 campaign, with the only blemish being the 4-0 round-robin loss. 

Goaltenders

Anton Khudobin 

Dallas’ Khudobin has played well as Ben Bishop’s backup. In fact, Khudobin has played so well that Bishop (lower-body injury) may be the backup when he returns. Khudobin has won his last five starts, powering the Stars through the early rounds of the playoffs. Anton has enjoyed a 2.48 GAA and a .928 SV% during his impressive streak. 

Pavel Francouz

Colorado’s Francouz is currently losing the battle of backup goalies. Francouz has lost three straight games for the Avalanche and is hoping to stop Colorado’s recent slide. It doesn’t sound like Philipp Grubauer (lower-body injury) is likely to return this postseason, so the job is Francouz’s. Francouz has actually posted pretty good numbers this postseason (2.31 GAA and a .915 SV%), but the Avalanche haven’t been scoring enough to support him. Perhaps that trend will shift in a pivotal Game 3. 

Advantage: Dallas Stars

Stanley Cup Odds

The Dallas Stars’ odds to win the Stanley Cup before the season started were mediocre, showing at +1700. Now that Dallas has already piled up half the wins necessary to reach the Finals, they’re sitting snug at +350. 

The Avalanche’s moneyline to win the Cup is almost exactly where it started in the preseason, moving only 60 points. Colorado’s odds went from +940 to +1000, which is reflective of the deep hole they’ve dug for themselves. It’s not insurmountable, but the Avalanche needs to come out swinging in Game 3 to have a chance. 

Odds to Win Series 

Colorado is the better team, statistically, but it has had a hard time with Dallas this season. Current NHL Series Pricing pays a hefty dividend to those who believe the Avalanche can and will bounce back to win this series. Betting $100 on Colorado to complete the comeback pays out $250 on top of your initial investment. 

Dallas Stars (-300) 

Colorado Avalanche (+250) 

Prediction: Avalanche in 7 

Adjustments will be made by Colorado, and we’ll get to see the matchup we expected before the series started. A tense battle between the Avalanche’s elite offense and the Stars’ stellar defense, with the better overall team emerging victorious. Colorado’s success hinges on Francouz and the defense’s ability to stabilize and shut down Dallas’s overachieving scoring machine. The goals should come in bunches for the Avalanche, leaving the Stars wondering what might have been.

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Barry Barger

Barry Barger aka Billy Ray Valentine aka YOBABY started writing for BetUS over a decade ago and is back to help improve your sports betting odds after sharing his knowledge worldwide. He was born and brought up a wholesome, clean-cut Midwestern kid from Omaha, Nebraska where he became a sports freak whether playing or watching. This lifetime Cornhusker enrolled at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, but after 3 ½ College years of wine, women and song, he decided to take a break (lost tuition gambling) to sell Life Insurance. That lame-ass decision along with the winter’s bitter cold (and people) drove him to drink…I mean move to the Valley of the Sun in Phoenix, Arizona. Barger received his BS degree in Marketing (and BS) with a Theater minor at Arizona State University where he started acting and writing for The Farce Side Comedy Troupe & Barren Mind Improv Troupe. Taking his passion professionally from Tempe to San Diego to Los Angeles to Costa Rica to LA again obviously tainted this once pure specimen. The upside to you, the reader, is a lifetime of sports knowledge and gambling intermingled with single debauchery with a raw form attitude. If you were a reader of his writing and sports betting articles before at BetUS.com, then your wishes have come true! If you don’t know who in the hell this brash know-it-all is, then you must have a Golden Horseshoe because it is your LUCKY DAY!

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