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Dallas Stars<\/a> (48-20-12, in the Central Division) vs. Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> (32-34-14, in the Atlantic Division)<\/p>\n

Toronto; Monday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Toronto Maple Leafs host the Dallas Stars after William Nylander<\/a> scored two goals in the Maple Leafs’ 6-2 loss to the Florida Panthers.<\/p>\n

Toronto has gone 18-14-8 in home games and 32-34-14 overall. The Maple Leafs have a -40 scoring differential, with 246 total goals scored and 286 given up.<\/p>\n

Dallas has gone 22-9-8 in road games and 48-20-12 overall. The Stars have a +50 scoring differential, with 264 total goals scored and 214 given up.<\/p>\n

The teams play Monday for the second time this season. The Stars won 5-1 in the last meeting.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Matthew Knies<\/a> has 23 goals and 40 assists for the Maple Leafs. John Tavares<\/a> has six goals and eight assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Wyatt Johnston<\/a> has 44 goals and 41 assists for the Stars. Jason Robertson<\/a> has scored six goals and added six assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Maple Leafs: 3-6-1, averaging 2.8 goals, four assists, 4.9 penalties and 14.4 penalty minutes while giving up 4.1 goals per game.<\/p>\n

Stars: 5-4-1, averaging 2.9 goals, 5.1 assists, 4.3 penalties and 10 penalty minutes while giving up 2.4 goals per game.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Maple Leafs: Anthony Stolarz<\/a>: out for season (lower body), Dakota Joshua: out for season (upper body), Brandon Carlo<\/a>: out (lower body), Chris Tanev<\/a>: out for season (abdomen), Auston Matthews<\/a>: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n

Stars: Sam Steel: out (hip), Nils Lundkvist: day to day (illness), Miro Heiskanen<\/a>: out (lower body), Michael Bunting<\/a>: 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

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Stars (48-20-12, in the Central Division) vs. Toronto Maple Leafs (32-34-14, in the Atlantic Division) Toronto; Monday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5117],"tags":[54,532,1529,3651,196,147,5278,56683,5,1800,611,797,12137,423,285,4,197,31,1114,1531],"class_list":{"0":"post-550979","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-stars","8":"tag-anthony-stolarz","9":"tag-auston-matthews","10":"tag-brandon-carlo","11":"tag-chris-tanev","12":"tag-dallas","13":"tag-dallas-stars","14":"tag-dallasstars","15":"tag-event_preview","16":"tag-hockey","17":"tag-jason-robertson","18":"tag-john-tavares","19":"tag-matthew-knies","20":"tag-michael-bunting","21":"tag-miro-heiskanen","22":"tag-national-hockey-league","23":"tag-nhl","24":"tag-stars","25":"tag-toronto-maple-leafs","26":"tag-william-nylander","27":"tag-wyatt-johnston"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116390804245985404","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550979","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=550979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}