Nashville Predators (27-24-7, in the Central Division) vs. Dallas Stars (35-14-9, in the Central Division)<\/p>\n
Dallas; Saturday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Dallas Stars host the Nashville Predators after Wyatt Johnston\u2019s two-goal game against the Seattle Kraken in the Stars\u2019 4-1 win.<\/p>\n
Dallas has gone 35-14-9 overall with a 12-4-1 record in Central Division games. The Stars have a 15-2-0 record in games they convert at least one power play.<\/p>\n
Nashville is 27-24-7 overall with a 9-9-3 record against the Central Division. The Predators are 10th in the league with 221 total penalties (averaging 3.8 per game).<\/p>\n
Saturday\u2019s game is the third time these teams meet this season. The Stars won 5-4 in the last meeting.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Johnston has 31 goals and 30 assists for the Stars. Matt Duchene has seven goals and four assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Steven Stamkos has 29 goals and 16 assists for the Predators. Filip Forsberg has seven goals and five assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Stars: 8-2-0, averaging 3.4 goals, 6.2 assists, 3.1 penalties and 6.8 penalty minutes while giving up 2.5 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Predators: 4-3-3, averaging 3.5 goals, 5.9 assists, 3.6 penalties and 8.5 penalty minutes while giving up 3.7 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Stars: None listed.<\/p>\n
Predators: 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nashville Predators (27-24-7, in the Central Division) vs. Dallas Stars (35-14-9, in the Central Division) Dallas; Saturday, 8…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5117],"tags":[196,147,5278,37676,3577,5,2876,231,4,292,234,43,197,1489,2415,1871,4894,1275,1531],"class_list":["post-474788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas-stars","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-stars","tag-dallasstars","tag-data-skrive","tag-filip-forsberg","tag-hockey","tag-matt-duchene","tag-nashville-predators","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-hockey","tag-seattle-kraken","tag-sports","tag-stars","tag-steven-stamkos","tag-tennessee","tag-texas","tag-tn-state-wire","tag-tx-state-wire","tag-wyatt-johnston"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116141905979194704","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474788","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=474788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}