DALLAS -- The Colorado Avalanche combined for 1,177 games of experience in the Stanley Cup Playoffs entering Game 1 of the Western Conference First Round. Their starting goalie, however, had zero. A big question, at least on the outside, was how Mackenzie Blackwood would handle it.

New Colorado goalie Mackenzie Blackwood is already having a big impact on the Avalanche in their eighth consecutive postseason.

Blackwood stopped 23 shots in his Stanley Cup Playoffs debut, helping the Colorado Avalanche to a 5-1 victory in Game 1 of its opening-round series Saturday night against the Dallas Stars at