{"id":433458,"date":"2026-01-29T01:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T01:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/433458\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T01:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T01:07:11","slug":"dallas-looks-to-stay-hot-vs-top-team-in-pacific-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/433458\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas looks to stay hot vs. top team in Pacific Division"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/stars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/stars\/\">Dallas Stars<\/a> are coming off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/stars\/2026\/01\/27\/thomas-harleys-late-goal-helps-stars-survive-rally-slip-past-blues-with-another-win\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/stars\/2026\/01\/27\/thomas-harleys-late-goal-helps-stars-survive-rally-slip-past-blues-with-another-win\/\">two straight last-minute victories<\/a> and are hunting their fourth win in five games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Here\u2019s what to know about the Stars\u2019 next matchup.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas Stars at Vegas Golden Knights<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">When: Thursday, 9 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Sports Roundup<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Get the latest D-FW sports news, analysis and opinion delivered straight to your inbox. Plus, Kevin Sherrington&#8217;s A La Carte.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__8MgJa flex flex-wrap text-gray-dark secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-10 text-center justify-center\">By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/terms-of-service\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Where: T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">TV\/streaming: Victory+<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Radio: Sportsradio 96.7\/1310 The Ticket<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The Vegas Golden Knights (25-14-13, in the Pacific Division) host the Stars (30-14-9, third in the Central Division) after Pavel Dorofeyev\u2019s two-goal game against the Montreal Canadiens in the Golden Knights\u2019 3-2 overtime loss. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Vegas is 12-7-6 at home. The Golden Knights have a +13 scoring differential, with 172 total goals scored and 159 allowed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Dallas is 16-7-6 on the road. The Stars have a 12-2-0 record in games they score one or more power-play goals. &#8230; The matchup Thursday is the first meeting of the season between the clubs.<\/p>\n<p>Top performers<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Stars: Mikko Rantanen has 19 goals and 45 assists for the Stars. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/stars\/2026\/01\/23\/dallas-stars-st-louis-blues-jason-robertson-mikko-rantanen-score-results\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/stars\/2026\/01\/23\/dallas-stars-st-louis-blues-jason-robertson-mikko-rantanen-score-results\/\">Jason Robertson<\/a> has scored five goals and added five assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Golden Knights: Dorofeyev has 24 goals and 16 assists for the Golden Knights. Jack Eichel has six goals and 10 assists over the last 10 games. <\/p>\n<p>Last 10 games<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Stars: 5-4-1, averaging 2.7 goals, 4.5 assists, 3.1 penalties and 6.8 penalty minutes while giving up 2.2 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Golden Knights: 6-3-1, averaging four goals, 6.4 assists, 2.5 penalties and 5.8 penalty minutes while giving up 3.2 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/stars\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Find more Stars coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Stars are coming off two straight last-minute victories and are hunting their fourth win in five&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5129],"tags":[147,149,5317,5,2603,1800,270,4,197,74,39,5316],"class_list":{"0":"post-433458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vegas-golden-knights","8":"tag-dallas-stars","9":"tag-golden-knights","10":"tag-goldenknights","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-how-to-watch","13":"tag-jason-robertson","14":"tag-mikko-rantanen","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-stars","17":"tag-vegas","18":"tag-vegas-golden-knights","19":"tag-vegasgoldenknights"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115975714066692305","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433458","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=433458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}