The Vancouver Canucks are back on home ice Monday evening when the Dallas Stars come to town for the third matchup of the season between the two clubs.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Back in October, the Canucks picked up a 5-3 victory in Dallas, but the Stars won 4-2 at Rogers Arena on November 20th.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
In his 14 games against the Stars as a Canuck, Conor Garland has four goals and 12 assists for 16 points. He has five points in his last three games against the Stars.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Quick Hits on the Competition\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The stars have picked up a pair of wins coming out of the Olympic break, and Monday\u2019s game will be the first of a quick two-game road trip, with a game in Calgary on Tuesday night.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Dallas currently holds second place in the Central Division and Western Conference with a 36-14-9 record.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Going\u00a0back to\u00a0before the Olympic break, they have won their last eight games.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Stars have the second-most road\u00a0wins\u00a0this season with 18\u00a0on\u00a0the year.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jason Robertson (33) and Wyatt Johnston (32) are the leading\u00a0goal-scorers\u00a0for the Stars this season. They are one of four NHL teams with multiple 30-goal scorers.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mikko Rantanen leads the Stars with 69 points (20g-49a) in 54 games played.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
They have the league’s second-best power play, at 30.1% this season.\u00a0Johnston leads the NHL with 20 power play goals; the next closest are Leon Draisaitl and Pavel Dorofeyev, who have 15 apiece.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jake Oettinger has started 38 of their 59 games this season. He has a 24-10-4 record with an .0898% save percentage, 2.71 goals-against average, and two shutouts.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Story: The \u00d6hgren-Blueger-Garland Line\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The trio of Liam \u00d6hgren, Teddy Blueger, and Conor Garland have performed well as a line through the past 10 games. The three have played 87:21 of five-on-five together and have been on the ice for five goals scored and three against in that time.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00d6hgren has led the Canucks in five-on-five goals (5) since he was acquired from the Minnesota Wild in mid-December. Garland sits second in five-on-five assists in that time, while Blueger has four points in his last four games.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The line has controlled 55.3% of the Corsi and 52.5% of scoring chances for, showing that they are doing\u00a0a good job\u00a0transitioning from defence to offence and creating offence once they enter the zone.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Canucks\u2019 Top Performers over the Last Five Games\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Liam \u00d6hgren: 2g-2a-4p\u00a0\u00a0
Teddy Blueger: 1g-3a-4p\u00a0\u00a0
Conor Garland: 0g-4a-4p\u00a0\u00a0
P.O. Joseph: 1g-2a-3p\u00a0\u00a0
Evander Kane: 1g-1a-2p\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
When and Where to Watch\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Monday\u2019s game is at 7:00 p.m. PT, and you can watch the game on Sportsnet or listen to Brendan Batchelor\u2019s radio call on Sportsnet 650 and the Sportsnet Radio Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vancouver Canucks are back on home ice Monday evening when the Dallas Stars come to town for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-508405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}