The Ducks (21-21-3) return to Southern California for three of their next four games and begin the slate by hosting the Stars (27-10-9).
Puck drop is set for 7 p.m. PT and will air on TNT. <\/p>\n
Anaheim is coming off another loss and dropped its most recent game, 5-3, to the Sabres on Saturday.
\u201cWe weren\u2019t great to start the game,\u201d head coach Joel Quenneville said. \u201cWe got behind, but we were in the game. We\u2019re down two, then it goes to three, and it looks like we had no chance. Then all of a sudden the pucks are going in.\u201d <\/p>\n
Olen Zellweger, Leo Carlsson, and Mason McTavish all scored for the Ducks in the loss.
With the Ducks returning to home ice, Quenneville reflected on the most recent road trip and noted how in order to find success, his squad needs to stop making ill-advised mistakes. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been a tough go coming off that trip,\u201d Quenneville added. \u201cLet\u2019s get back to simplifying and let\u2019s have a check-first mentality in the game against a team that is very skilled and can make plays.\u201d <\/p>\n
Troy Terry, who has missed the last two games with an upper-body injury, will be a game-time decision per Quenneville. Terry said while it\u2019s been tough to watch while sidelined, it felt good to be back out on the ice with his teammates on Tuesday. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt feels like when you\u2019re going through these [stretches,] the hockey gods feel against you a little bit at times,\u201c Terry said. \u201cIt\u2019s also on us. I think we just need to realize that the way out of it isn\u2019t by taking shortcuts or anything, it\u2019s just getting back to the basics of defending, mostly. I think if we\u2019re doing that, we\u2019re giving ourselves chances.\u201d
This is the third and final regular season meeting between the two teams. The Ducks and Stars have split the series so far.
Dallas comes into this game fresh off a 3-1 win over the Kings on Monday. Mikko Rantanen leads Dallas in assists (44) and points (62) while Jason Robertson leads the team in goals with 27. <\/p>\n
Despite being 2-2-2 in the month of January so far, Terry knows how dangerous Dallas can be and how it\u2019s on the Ducks to play smart hockey in hopes of earning a win.
\u201cThey\u2019ve been a premier team in the league,\u201d Terry said of the Stars. \u201c[With] some really high-end forwards, great D-corps, so they\u2019re kind of just and all-around team. They can play any style of hockey and that\u2019s another team that if we\u2019re too loose and turn the pucks over and make mental mistakes, they can make you pay.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ducks (21-21-3) return to Southern California for three of their next four games and begin the slate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-132266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}