Dallas Stars (28-13-9, in the Central Division) vs. Columbus Blue Jackets (22-20-7, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n
Columbus, Ohio; Thursday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Dallas Stars visit the Columbus Blue Jackets after Jason Robertson scored two goals in the Stars’ 6-2 win over the Boston Bruins.<\/p>\n
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Columbus is 22-20-7 overall and 11-8-4 at home. The Blue Jackets have a -19 scoring differential, with 144 total goals scored and 163 conceded.<\/p>\n
Dallas has gone 15-6-6 in road games and 28-13-9 overall. The Stars have gone 14-2-4 when they serve fewer penalty minutes than their opponent.<\/p>\n
The teams match up Thursday for the second time this season. The Blue Jackets won the last meeting 5-1.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Kirill Marchenko has 18 goals and 23 assists for the Blue Jackets. Charlie Coyle has four goals and one assist over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
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Mikko Rantanen has 19 goals and 44 assists for the Stars. Wyatt Johnston has scored six goals and added three assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Blue Jackets: 5-4-1, averaging three goals, 4.9 assists, 3.6 penalties and 7.8 penalty minutes while giving up three goals per game.<\/p>\n
Stars: 3-5-2, averaging 2.9 goals, 4.7 assists, 3.8 penalties and 8.2 penalty minutes while giving up three goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Blue Jackets: None listed.<\/p>\n
Stars: 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 The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Stars (28-13-9, in the Central Division) vs. Columbus Blue Jackets (22-20-7, in the Metropolitan Division) Columbus, Ohio;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5108],"tags":[3644,5180,95,1843,1285,897,230,5179,147,5,1800,1944,2218,270,4,5188,3650,1531],"class_list":{"0":"post-419566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-columbus-blue-jackets","8":"tag-blue-jackets","9":"tag-bluejackets","10":"tag-boston-bruins","11":"tag-central-division","12":"tag-charlie-coyle","13":"tag-columbus","14":"tag-columbus-blue-jackets","15":"tag-columbusbluejackets","16":"tag-dallas-stars","17":"tag-hockey","18":"tag-jason-robertson","19":"tag-kirill-marchenko","20":"tag-metropolitan-division","21":"tag-mikko-rantanen","22":"tag-nhl","23":"tag-ohio","24":"tag-penalty-minutes","25":"tag-wyatt-johnston"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115932522381365644","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419566","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=419566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}