Anaheim Ducks (8-3-1, in the Pacific Division) vs. Dallas Stars (7-3-3, in the Central Division)<\/p>\n
Dallas; Thursday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Dallas Stars host the Anaheim Ducks after the Stars knocked off the Edmonton Oilers 4-3 in a shootout.<\/p>\n
Dallas is 7-3-3 overall and 4-2-1 in home games. The Stars have gone 4-0-0 in games they convert at least one power play.<\/p>\n
Anaheim has an 8-3-1 record overall and a 4-2-1 record in road games. The Ducks rank fifth in NHL play with 47 total goals (averaging 3.9 per game).<\/p>\n
The matchup Thursday is the first meeting this season between the two teams.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Miro Heiskanen has scored three goals with two assists for the Stars. Mikko Rantanen has six goals and six assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Cutter Gauthier has 10 goals and six assists for the Ducks. Chris Kreider has five goals and one assist over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Stars: 4-3-3, averaging 2.1 goals, four assists, 2.6 penalties and 5.2 penalty minutes while giving up 2.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Ducks: 7-2-1, averaging 3.9 goals, 6.9 assists, 4.4 penalties and 11.4 penalty minutes while giving up 2.8 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Stars: None listed.<\/p>\n
Ducks: 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":"Anaheim Ducks (8-3-1, in the Pacific Division) vs. Dallas Stars (7-3-3, in the Central Division) Dallas; Thursday, 8…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[22879,732,102,104,103,3251,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-36222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-22879","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\/36222","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=36222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36222\/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=36222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}