The Dallas Stars are in the second round of the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs. On Saturday night at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas, the Stars defeated the Colorado Avalanche 4-2 in game seven of the first round best out of seven series. In the process, the Stars beat the Avalanche four games to three.
The Stars’s star in the seventh and deciding game was right winger Mikko Rantanen of Nousiainen, Finland, who registered his first career postseason hat trick, and 11th of his career. Rantanen’s 10 prior hat tricks came in the regular season. This was also Rantanen’s first hat trick as a member of the Stars, as the previous 10 came with the Avalanche.
