Stars Still Have Chance to Spoil Red Wings' Season
The playoff pursuit is over for the Dallas Stars, but tonight's game has implications for three teams battling for the final two spots on the season's final day.
The playoff pursuit is over for the Dallas Stars, but tonight's game has implications for three teams battling for the final two spots on the season's final day.
The "possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field" (or making the 2013 NHL playoffs) may be "approximately 3,720 to 1", but "never tell (the Stars) the odds." There will still be something to play for, technically, when the puck drops on
After collecting just one point out of a possible four last weekend and losing three of four contests overall, the Stars must find a way to turn it around in a hurry and sweep their final three games. It starts in San Jose tonight.
The Stars face a near must-win Sunday night at Staples Center with just four games to go and their playoff hopes fading fast - Can they produce a third win in Los Angeles in a single year?
The Detroit Red Wings dropped a game against the hapless Calgary Flames last night. The Stars can respond and take advantage, but face one of the best in the league in Vancouver.
Winners of four straight, the Stars still trail the Red Wings for the 8 seed in the West with the San Jose Sharks coming to the AAC in a tough back-to-back situation for Dallas.
Three points out of eighth place now, the Dallas Stars simply must take advantage of a Nashville team down on its luck and possibly out of the playoff race altogether.
The Los Angeles Kings return to American Airlines Center tonight for the final Pacific Division battle between the two teams on Dallas ice.
Dallas had speed on display Friday in Anaheim and Glen Gulutzan likes that approach with a younger lineup. Look for the same combinations in San Jose today with Lane MacDermid listed as probably with an upper body injury.
The band plays on in Anaheim - What will the Dallas Stars line combinations look like? Who will be kept up from Cedar Park? Plenty of intrigue tonight 9:00pm CDT.
"We’ve got a three-game series against Anaheim after an embarrassing outing in front of our home fans like that," Glen Gulutzan said Sunday. "We better come out hard tomorrow."
Chocolate bunnies, jelly beans of questionable quality and other non-religious stereotypical Easter references aside, don't forget to make time this holiday for the Dallas Stars and Los Angeles Kings this afternoon.
Tied with the 11th, 12th and 13th place teams in the West, the Stars desperately need points almost nightly from here on out, but face a very tough schedule down the stretch.
The post Brenden Morrow era begins in Dallas tonight with a formidable foe in the new-look Minnesota Wild
Dallas wraps up its season series with the Avalanche this evening looking to avenge a superior effort resulting in a loss at the Pepsi Center Wednesday night.
Another challenge for this Dallas team-defense awaits tonight in Denver as the young and talented Avs try to get back in the win column against the Stars' platoon of rookie and sophomore defensemen.
The Stars are looking for their third goal of a four-game home stand that ends tonight with the Calgary Flames in town.
Kari Lehtonen was great Thursday against Anaheim. He'll have to be even better to take a point out of this one as the league-leading Hawks come to town.
The Stars, one of only three teams this season to defeat the Ducks in regulation, try to duplicate that feat tonight without Jamie Benn and captain Brenden Morrow.
After a loss in Phoenix the Dallas Stars will try to get back in the win column against the Nashville Predators, but must likely do so without Jamie Benn and Brenden Morrow in the lineup.
After stunning the Kings in Los Angeles Thursday the Stars will try to solve Dave Tippett's defensive scheme and Mike Smith's netminding in Phoenix to wrap-up a quick two game road trip.
The Stars enter Sunday having allowed 33 goals in their last 8 games and looking to stop the bleeding in a matinee against the St. Louis Blues on national television.
The Stars have not lost in regulation at home to Edmonton since 2006 (10-0-1), and will likely welcome netminder Kari Lehtonen back to the ice tonight as they seek to complete the sweep of the Oilers.
After a 5-4 loss to the Nashville Predators last night the Dallas Stars will shift their attentions away from one bad memory, only to focus on another as their 1-15-2 record on the second night of...
The Stars will have to find a way to keep Nashville off the score-sheet if they're to best Pekka Rinne, but they'll have to do it sans Philip Larsen, Aaron Rome, Trevor Daley and Kari Lehtonen.
Losers of two of three, Dallas will look to get back on the right track against the Vancouver Canucks Thursday night at American Airlines Center.