Minnesota Wild (45-21-12, in the Central Division) vs. Dallas Stars (46-20-12, in the Central Division)<\/p>\n
Dallas; Thursday, 9 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Minnesota Wild will try to continue a four-game win streak with a victory over the Dallas Stars.<\/p>\n
Dallas is 46-20-12 overall and 16-6-3 against the Central Division. The Stars lead NHL play with 68 power-play goals.<\/p>\n
Minnesota has gone 45-21-12 overall with a 13-7-3 record in Central Division games. The Wild rank 10th in the league with 257 total goals (averaging 3.3 per game).<\/p>\n
The matchup Thursday is the fourth time these teams square off this season. The Wild won 2-1 in overtime in the previous matchup.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Mikko Rantanen has scored 21 goals with 53 assists for the Stars. Wyatt Johnston has six goals and two assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Kirill Kaprizov has 43 goals and 44 assists for the Wild. Ryan Hartman has scored seven goals with five assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Stars: 3-5-2, averaging 2.5 goals, 4.5 assists, 3.3 penalties and 7.7 penalty minutes while giving up 2.5 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Wild: 7-3-0, averaging 3.5 goals, 5.7 assists, four penalties and 10.2 penalty minutes while giving up 2.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Stars: Sam Steel: out (hip), Michael Bunting: out (lower body), Nathan Bastian: out (hand), Radek Faksa: out (upper-body), Roope Hintz: out (lower body), Tyler Seguin: out for season (acl).<\/p>\n
Wild: Zach Bogosian: day to day (undisclosed).<\/p>\n
___<\/p>\n
The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The Associated Press Minnesota Wild (45-21-12, in the Central Division) vs. Dallas Stars (46-20-12, in the Central…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5117],"tags":[196,147,5278,5,4,197],"class_list":{"0":"post-547212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-stars","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-stars","10":"tag-dallasstars","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-stars"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116368732736869355","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547212","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=547212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}