{"id":413416,"date":"2026-01-17T23:47:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T23:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/413416\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T23:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T23:47:12","slug":"dallas-is-finally-back-home-can-it-snap-out-of-its-long-funk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/413416\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas is finally back home, can it snap out of its long funk?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dallas Stars<\/a> are finally back in North Texas. <\/p>\n

After six road games across three different time zones over the past two weeks, the Stars get back to American Airlines Center looking to snap out of a prolonged funk. <\/p>\n

The Stars (27-12-9, 2nd in the Central Division) have lost nine of their last 11 games, including a 2-1 loss to the Utah Mammoth last time out<\/a>. It is the opposite story for the red-hot Tampa Bay Lightining (29-13-4, 1st in the Atlantic Division) who had won 11 straight before a loss to the St. Louis Blues in their last game.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s everything to know about Sunday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n

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Dallas Stars vs. Tampa Bay Lighting<\/p>\n

When: Sunday, 1 p.m.<\/p>\n

Where: American Airlines Center, Dallas<\/p>\n

TV\/streaming: Victory+\/NHLN<\/p>\n

Radio: Sportsradio 96.7\/1310 The Ticket<\/p>\n

Bottom line<\/p>\n

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<\/a> in the previous matchup.<\/p>\n

Top performers<\/p>\n

Jason Robertson<\/a> has 27 goals and 29 assists for the Stars. Mikko Rantanen<\/a> has five goals and seven assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Related<\/p>\n

\"Dallas<\/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<\/p>\n

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

On Twitter\/X: @dmn_stars<\/a><\/p>\n

Find more Stars coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Stars are finally back in North Texas. After six road games across three different time zones…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5105],"tags":[147,5,2603,1800,189,270,4,43,197,540,92,5168,5167],"class_list":{"0":"post-413416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-lightning","8":"tag-dallas-stars","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-how-to-watch","11":"tag-jason-robertson","12":"tag-lightning","13":"tag-mikko-rantanen","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-stars","17":"tag-tampa-bay","18":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning","19":"tag-tampabay","20":"tag-tampabaylightning"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115913113810090220","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}