Dallas Stars (44-18-12, in the Central Division) vs. Boston Bruins (42-24-8, in the Atlantic Division)<\/p>\n
Boston; Tuesday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Boston Bruins host the Dallas Stars after the Bruins defeated the Columbus Blue Jackets 4-3 in a shootout.<\/p>\n
Boston has a 42-24-8 record overall and a 27-10-1 record in home games. The Bruins serve 12.6 penalty minutes per game to rank second in NHL play.<\/p>\n
Dallas has a 22-8-8 record on the road and a 44-18-12 record overall. The Stars have a 21-4-2 record when scoring a power-play goal.<\/p>\n
The teams play Tuesday for the second time this season. The Stars won the last matchup 6-2. Jason Robertson scored two goals in the victory.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Morgan Geekie has 34 goals and 28 assists for the Bruins. Pavel Zacha has nine goals and five assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Wyatt Johnston has 40 goals and 38 assists for the Stars. Robertson has six goals and seven assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Bruins: 6-2-2, averaging 3.4 goals, 5.8 assists, 4.2 penalties and 11.5 penalty minutes while giving up 2.8 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Stars: 4-4-2, averaging 2.9 goals, 5.2 assists, 4.4 penalties and 9.4 penalty minutes while giving up 2.7 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Bruins: Mason Lohrei: day to day (upper-body).<\/p>\n
Stars: Sam Steel: day to day (undisclosed), Michael Bunting: day to day (lower body), Nathan Bastian: day to day (undisclosed), Radek Faksa: out (upper-body), Roope Hintz: out (lower body), Tyler Seguin: out for season (acl).<\/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":"Dallas Stars (44-18-12, in the Central Division) vs. Boston Bruins (42-24-8, in the Atlantic Division) Boston; Tuesday, 7…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5099],"tags":[61118,301,154,95,5132,530,5,4,292,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-531062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-bruins","8":"tag-61118","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-boston","11":"tag-boston-bruins","12":"tag-bostonbruins","13":"tag-bruins","14":"tag-hockey","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-nhl-hockey","17":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116318444185070165","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531062","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=531062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}