DALLAS (Interstat) — Martin Necas scored two goals, including a 5-on-3 tally, and the visiting Colorado Avalanche held off the Dallas Stars 3-2 in a National Hockey League game on Tuesday. Artturi Lehkonen also scored for Colorado, and Mackenzie Blackwood made 24 saves. Nathan MacKinnon had two assists. Tyler Seguin had a goal and an assist for Dallas, while Roope Hintz also scored. Miro Heiskanen added two assists. Colorado improved to 4-2. Dallas fell to 2-4. Attendance at American Airlines Center was 18,532. Colorado opened scoring in the first period when Lehkonen scored off assists from MacKinnon and Josh Manson. Dallas answered later in the first on Seguin’s wrist shot, set up by Jason Robertson and Heiskanen. In the second, Necas scored twice, first on a slap shot from MacKinnon and Nicolas Roy, then on a wrist shot from Gabriel Landeskog and Devon Toews. Hintz scored in the third for Dallas, with Seguin and Heiskanen assisting, but Colorado held on. Brock Nelson had five shots and three hits for Colorado. The teams meet again in Colorado.