New York Rangers (33-37-9, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Dallas Stars (47-20-12, in the Central Division)<\/p>\n
Dallas; Saturday, 5 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The New York Rangers visit the Dallas Stars after Alexis Lafreniere’s two-goal game against the Buffalo Sabres in the Rangers’ 5-3 loss.<\/p>\n
Dallas has a 25-11-4 record in home games and a 47-20-12 record overall. The Stars have scored 68 power-play goals, which ranks first in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n
New York is 19-17-2 in road games and 33-37-9 overall. The Rangers are 14-17-5 in games they have more penalties than their opponent.<\/p>\n
The teams play Saturday for the second time this season. The Rangers won 3-2 in overtime in the previous meeting.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Mikko Rantanen has 22 goals and 54 assists for the Stars. Wyatt Johnston has seven goals and three assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Mika Zibanejad has 33 goals and 43 assists for the Rangers. Lafreniere has scored four goals with four assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Stars: 4-5-1, averaging 2.9 goals, 5.1 assists, four penalties and 9.1 penalty minutes while giving up 2.7 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Rangers: 5-4-1, averaging 3.6 goals, 6.4 assists, 4.3 penalties and 11.1 penalty minutes while giving up two goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Stars: Sam Steel: out (hip), Nils Lundkvist: day to day (illness), Michael Bunting: out (lower body), Nathan Bastian: out (hand), Radek Faksa: day to day (upper-body), Roope Hintz: out (lower body), Tyler Seguin: out for season (acl).<\/p>\n
Rangers: Matt Rempe: out for season (thumb), Urho Vaakanainen: out (upper-body).<\/p>\n
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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 New York Rangers (33-37-9, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Dallas Stars (47-20-12, in the…\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-549449","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\/116379833107167268","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549449","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=549449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549449\/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=549449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}