The Dallas Stars face the Colorado Avalanche Sunday afternoon for the third and final time this season. Entering Sunday's match, the Stars are 42-21-2 while the Avalanche are 40-24-3. Dallas and Colorado split their first two games, with the Stars winning 5-3 on Nov. 29 and the Avalanche winning 6-3 on Jan. 18.

Regular season matchups are going to get bigger for some teams. For the Colorado Avalanche, Sunday’s matinee with the Dallas Stars certainly fit the bill.

The Avalanche are showing they can win any type of hockey game, and that's got to be a scary thing for the rest of the NHL.

"I told them I'll be flexible and I want to play here for a long time. Then a couple days later they traded me," Rantanen said Saturday.

MacKinnon’s family, Makar, Devon Toews, Andrew Cogliano and Gabe Landeskog all took part in the ceremony. Rantanen did not … but he was on the ice. He was standing near the Stars bench and tapped his stick on a couple of times for his former linemate-turned-foe.

Cale Makar and the Avalanche took down former teammate Mikko Rantanen and the Stars on Monday. He spoke about the forward's return on Sunday.