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Dallas Stars<\/a> (3-3-1, in the Central Division) vs. Chicago Blackhawks<\/a> (3-5, in the Central Division)<\/p>\n Chicago; Saturday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Dallas Stars visit the Chicago Blackhawks after the Stars took down the Colorado Avalanche<\/a> 3-2 in a shootout.<\/p>\n Chicago has a 3-5 record overall and a 2-1-0 record in Central Division play. The Blackhawks are 1-3-0 when they serve more penalty minutes than their opponent.<\/p>\n Dallas is 3-3-1 overall and 1-3-0 against the Central Division. The Stars have a +three scoring differential, with 15 total goals scored and 12 conceded.<\/p>\n Saturday’s game is the first meeting between these teams this season.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Blackhawks: Andrew Mangiapane: out (lower-body), Ryan Ellis<\/a>: out for season (back), Bowen Byram: day to day (upper-body).<\/p>\n Stars: Oskar Back: day to day (upper body), Cameron Hughes: out (upper-body), Matt Duchene<\/a>: out (abdomen), Wyatt Johnston<\/a>: out (illness).<\/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":"Associated Press Dallas Stars (3-3-1, in the Central Division) vs. Chicago Blackhawks (3-5, in the Central Division) Chicago;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5115],"tags":[521,37,96,5263,144,147,56683,5,2876,285,4,20761,1531],"class_list":["post-688105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-blackhawks","tag-blackhawks","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-blackhawks","tag-chicagoblackhawks","tag-colorado-avalanche","tag-dallas-stars","tag-event_preview","tag-hockey","tag-matt-duchene","tag-national-hockey-league","tag-nhl","tag-ryan-ellis","tag-wyatt-johnston"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/117449844534203165","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688105","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=688105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}