The Dallas Stars are in Florida tonight to take on the Tampa Bay Lightning in the first of two games they will play this season.
The Stars are coming off a decisive victory in Philadelphia while the Lightning have just split a home and home decision with the Washington Capitals.
Match-up
The Stars are still managing to keep the puck out of the net, even with the 5-4 and 5-1 losses recently, and are average 2.53 goals against per game, which is good for 4th place in the NHL. Jake Oettinger currently has a 1.80 goals against average and a .938 save percentage.
This will be helpful against the Lightning and their 3.23 average goals per game, which is much better than the Stars 2.86. The top line of Brandon Hagel, Brayden Point and Nikita Kucherov are masters of possession and combined for a total of four points against the Capitals on Sunday. When they weren’t scoring, they were skating circles around the Capitals’ defense.
Brian Elliott will be in net for the Lightning tonight. His save percentage through 4 games this season is .895 and his goals against average is 3.27.
Denis Gurianov will still be out for the Stars.
Stars Line-up
Jason Robertson – Roope Hintz – Joe Pavelski
Mason Marchment – Tyler Seguin – Matej Blumel
Jamie Benn – Wyatt Johnston – Ty Dellandrea
Joel Kiviranta – Radek Faksa – Luke Glendening
Miro Heiskanen – Colin Miller
Ryan Suter – Nils Lundkvist
Esa Lindell – Jani Hakanpaa
Jake Oettinger
Lightning Line-up
(Based on Monday’s practice)
Brandon Hagel – Brayden Point – Nikita Kucherov
Steven Stamkos – Nick Paul – Alex Killorn
Ross Colton – Vlad Namestnikov – Corey Perry
Pat Marooon – Pierre-Edouard Bellemare – Cole Koepke
Victor Hedman – Ian Cole
Mikhail Sergachev – Nick Perbix
Haydn Fleury – Philippe Myers
Andrei Vasilevskiy
How To Watch
The game will be on BallySports Southwest and 96.7 The Ticket. Puck drop is 6:00 pm CST.