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night for Joe Pavelski and Brent Burns.Pavelski and Burns each had a goal and three assists Dustin Tokarski Jersey Womens , Martin Jones made 31 saves and the San Jose Sharks held off the slumping Colorado Avalanche 5-4 on Wednesday.The four-point games by the San Jose stars came hours after they were chosen for the Pacific Division squad in the All-Star Game to be played at the Sharks’ arena on Jan. 26.“It’ll be different in our hometown,” Pavelski said. “Just excited to be a part of it.”Pavelski is an All-Star for the third time in his career, and this is the fifth time for Burns. They will be joined by teammate Erik Karlsson, who is making his sixth appearance and first since coming to San Jose in an offseason trade.“It’s always special to play in them. Being at home, in front of our own fans, represent the team and the city makes it extra special,” Burns said.Evander Kane, Joonas Donskoi and Lukas Radil also scored for the Sharks, who extended Colorado’s recent slide after a 9-0-2 stretch lifted the Avalanche into first place in the Central Division in early December. They are 3-8-3 since Dec. 4.“We’ve got to find a way to stop the bleeding here and make sure we talk about it,” captain Gabriel Landeskog said. “We try to come out with the lead and things just for whatever reason don’t go our way. Instead of stopping the bleeding at one or two goals, we let them get five tonight. That’s tough.”Tyson Jost had two goals and Matt Calvert and Tyson Barrie both scored for Colorado Valtteri Filppula Jersey Womens , which has dropped six in a row, two in overtime.But the Sharks didn’t need extra time to win their third in four games.San Jose led 2-1 after the first period on power-play goals by Pavelski and Burns.Burns’ goal on a 5-on-3 advantage gave the Sharks a lead they quickly expanded in the second.Kane scored his 12th of the season 4:15 into the period when he stole the puck from Barrie and beat goalie Philipp Grubauer high. Donskoi made it 4-1 when he stuffed the puck inside the post on a wraparound 2:15 after Kane’s goal.Pavel Francouz took over for Grubauer, who finished with 10 saves. Francouz made 12.Radil scored on Francouz to make it 5-1 at 16:33 of the second. Jost answered 16 seconds later to get Colorado back within three. Barrie made it a two-goal game with his fifth at 12:12 of the third, and Jost’s redirect at 16:36 got the Avalanche within a goal.Colorado pulled Francouz for an extra skater at 18:16 but couldn’t get one past Jones despite a flurry of chances.The Sharks were down a defenseman after Justin Braun hurt his knee in the first period and then lost another blueliner when Marc-Edouard Vlasic didn’t play for the last 10 minutes of the third.“We were down to five for most of the game, we got down to four and we got down to three in the last 10 minutes. That’s probably an explanation why it looked like it did a little bit in the third,” San Jose coach Peter DeBoer said. “Pickles (Vlasic) didn’t finish, and Justin Braun didn’t finish and we had Brenden Dillon in the penalty box.”Braun played one shift in the second period but sat the rest of the night. He was walking on his own after the game.“Hopefully it’s just a couple-day thing. I’m walking,” Braun said. “I didn’t think I would be useful out there. Thought I’d do more harm than good.”NOTES: Avalanche G Semyon Varlamov was out with a lower-body injury. … Barrie’s goal was the 275th point of his career, tying John-Michael Liles for most by an Avalanche defenseman. … This is the first time since 2010 the Sharks have had multiple players get four points in one game. … Colorado RW Mikko Rantanen was selected an All-Star. … Kane has three goals in his last three games against Grubauer.UP NEXTSharks: Home against Tampa Bay on Saturday.Avalanche: Host the New York Rangers on Friday night. DALLAS (AP) — Philipp Grubauer was spectacularly stubborn in goal on a night when Colorado’s defense got in on the offense.Grubauer made a career-high 44 saves, including 23 in the third period, and defensemen Erik Johnson and Tyson Barrie scored to help the Avalanche beat the Dallas Stars 3-1 on Thursday night.The Colorado goalie has allowed just two goals while facing 104 shots and carrying the Avalanche on a three-game winning streak that has vaulted Colorado into the Western Conference playoff picture.“Over the last couple games Fredrik Claesson Jersey Womens , just take it chance by chance and situation by situation,” Grubauer said. “Read the game, scan who’s on the ice. Scan where they come from. Read where the puck is going. Just simplify it.”Colorado coach Jared Bednar said Grubauer was the difference against Dallas.“We get a great goaltending performance from Grubauer and it’s enough to win,” Bednar said. “But I thought first 40 minutes especially, we did a lot of good things, and our guys are having fun right now. They want it, obviously you can see that.”Carl Soderberg added an empty-net goal with 49 seconds left for the final margin, helping the Avalanche leapfrog idle Minnesota for eighth place in the conference standings. Colorado took a deep tiebreaker lead over Arizona, which lost Thursday, for the second wild card. Colorado and Arizona have 78 points each, and the Avalanche currently would advance based on a better goal differential. The Coyotes will play at Colorado on March 29.Tyler Seguin scored the lone goal for Dallas with 5:01 to play. Ben Bishop made 29 saves Dylan DeMelo Jersey Womens , but his personal winning streak ended at six games.“I did think Colorado’s desperation in the first period was above ours,” Stars coach Jim Montgomery said. “In the second period, I thought it was even, and then in the third I thought our desperation exceeded theirs.”Even though the Stars are 1-2-1 in the first four games of a homestand, Montgomery insisted his team is on the right track.“We’re going to end up on the right side of the scoresheet if we keep playing this way,” he said.Dallas retained the first wild card by a four-point margin, but fell four points behind third-place St. Louis in the Central Division.Colorado outshot the Stars 13-9 in the first period.Momentum shifted in Dallas’ direction in the second period – until the Avalanche scored at 17:20. Samuel Girard sent a pass to Johnson high in the left faceoff circle. Johnson one-timed a slap shot inside the left goalpost.“I was ready for it,” Bishop said. “He’s just got kind of a heavy shot and just got on me quick. Maybe one I’d like to have back, but it was a pretty good shot.”After two periods, the shots were even at 21.Barrie scored at 5:19 of the third, sending a wrist shot from the top of the right circle in off the left post.“Creating offense is a five-man job Gabriel Gagne Jersey Womens ,” Bednar said, “so we need the help from our (defense) and we got it tonight. Tyson Barrie seems to have caught fire here a little bit.”Barrie has scored four of his 11 goals in the last three games.Seguin, frustrated by Grubauer on close-in shots, finally scored from the outside edge of the right circle.“I thought we all played pretty good,” Bishop said. “I thought Grubauer played excellent and kind of stole the game.”NOTES: Johnson’s goal, his first in 20 games, came on his 31st birthday. … Barrie’s goal was his 300th career point. … Colorado acquired Grubauer in a trade with Washington completed during the 2018 NHL draft at the American Airlines Center, the Stars’ home ice. … Seguin’s 28th goal ended a nine-game drought. He had 10 shots on goal. MacKinnon and Dallas captain Jamie Benn each had nine.UP NEXTAvalanche: Return home Saturday for the first game of a back-to-back, home-and-home series with Chicago.Stars: Complete a five-game homestand against Pittsburgh on Saturday before taking a four-game trip to western Canada.