Tampa Bay Lightning (29-13-4, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Dallas Stars (27-12-9, in the Central Division)<\/p>\n
Dallas; Sunday, 2 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Dallas Stars are looking to stop their three-game home slide with a win against the Tampa Bay Lightning.<\/p>\n
Dallas is 27-12-9 overall and 12-6-3 at home. The Stars have a 12-2-0 record in games they score at least one power-play goal.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay has a 17-4-4 record in road games and a 29-13-4 record overall. The Lightning have an 11-4-2 record when they commit fewer penalties than their opponent.<\/p>\n
The matchup Sunday is the second meeting between these teams this season. The Lightning won 2-1 in overtime in the previous matchup.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Jason Robertson has 27 goals and 29 assists for the Stars. Mikko Rantanen has five goals and seven assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Nikita Kucherov has 24 goals and 45 assists for the Lightning. Brayden Point has scored five goals and added six assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Stars: 2-5-3, averaging 2.6 goals, 4.2 assists, 3.6 penalties and 7.5 penalty minutes while giving up 3.2 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Lightning: 9-0-1, averaging 4.3 goals, eight assists, 7.2 penalties and 22.9 penalty minutes while giving up 2.3 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Stars: None listed.<\/p>\n
Lightning: None listed.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Lightning (29-13-4, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Dallas Stars (27-12-9, in the Central Division) Dallas; Sunday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[54870,732,102,104,103,3251,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-127003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-54870","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-dallas-headlines","12":"tag-dallas-news","13":"tag-nhl-hockey","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}