DALLAS — Joe Pavelski and Alexander Radulov scored in a shootout, Ben Bishop stopped 41 shots and the Dallas Stars beat the Colorado Avalanche 3-2 Saturday night.

Pavelski started the shootout by scoring on Philipp Grubauer, and Bishop followed two saves. Radulov bested Grubauer with a low shot to finish it.

Grubauer stopped 38 shots, including six in overtime. The Avalanche murdered a power play .

Tyler Seguin and Denis Gurianov felt for the Stars.

J.T. Compher and Ian Cole scored for the Avalanche.

Colorado Avalanche left wing J.T. Compher (Stan Szeto-USA TODAY Sports)

Colorado dropped for the fourth time in five games (1-3-1) but held onto second place in the Pacific Division. Dallas struck a two-game slide and moved forward of Winnipeg into third in the branch.

John Klingberg needed an assist on each of these Stars’ two goals. Matt Nieto helped on Colorado’s two goals.

Dallas scored at 1:08 of the period on its first shot on target. Klingberg abandoned the puck in the slot, where Radulov picked it up and sent a move to Seguin only to the left of this net for an easy goal.

Compher tied it together with. He picked up the rally of Nieto’s backhand shot from low on the perfect wall and place a snap shot beyond Bishop.

Cole gave the Avalanche their first lead of the period at 7:19. He touched to knock the puck with his hand, and it dropped in front of him in the left faceoff circle, where he even delivered a wrist shot to the web.

DENVER, CO – NOVEMBER 24: Ian Cole #28 of this Colorado Avalanche performs the Dallas Stars at the Pepsi Center on November 24, 2018 in Denver, Colorado. (Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images)

Two minutes after, MacKinnon struck at a backhand against the ideal post. The Avalanche had a 19-10 advantage in shots on goal in the second.

Grubauer shut down Dallas for more than 40 minutes until Gurianov tied it at 1:25 of the phase. His slap shot from top of the perfect circle hit Cole along with fluttered over Grubauer&rsquo.

From the third, Colorado’s Cale Makar hit a post, and Bishop stopped Matt Calvert onto a short-handed 2-on-1 break.

NOTES

Seguin includes five goals and an assist in the past five games. He had just six goals from the first 34 games. Seguin scored at least 26 objects in each of the first seven seasons with the Stars. … Colorado won only 4 of 14 faceoffs (29 per cent) in the first phase. LW Gabriel Landeskog had three of those successful faceoffs in four attempts. Dallas C Jason Dickinson won three of his faceoffs in the first. … Colorado C Nathan MacKinnon’s triggering penalty in overtime was his small penalty this season.

UP NEXT

Avalanche: Begin a two-game homestand on Tuesday against Winnipeg.

Stars: Travel to Arizona for a game on Sunday.

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