Marco Sturm Sets Standard Early By Scratching Nikita Zadorov from Bruins Lineup<\/a><\/p>\nZacha\u2019s absence was not the only lineup change. Sturm scratched defenseman Nikita Zadorov after he took two penalties against Frank Vatrano on Friday, with Jonathan Aspirot drawing in. Sean Kuraly entered on the fourth line, Matt Poitras centered Peterka and Khusnutdinov, and Fraser Minten moved up alongside Morgan Geekie and David Pastrnak. Jeremy Swayman started in net. Boston\u2019s blue line remains crowded following Charlie McAvoy\u2019s return from suspension, and the club has been linked to Detroit restricted free agent Simon Edvinsson. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Dallas Stars News & Notes<\/p>\n
Dallas added forward David Perron last week, with Elliotte Friedman first reporting the signing. The 20th NHL season awaits Perron, who split last year between Ottawa and Detroit and posted 28 points on 13 goals and 15 assists in 65 games. He was a minus-seven with three power-play goals. Perron won the Stanley Cup with St. Louis in 2019, contributing seven goals and nine assists during that run, and joins a Dallas group with Cup aspirations. <\/p>\n
Perron arrives with 812 points on 332 goals and 480 assists across 1,239 regular-season games, plus 64 points in 110 playoff appearances, and has previously played for seven franchises, including three separate stints in St. Louis. The depth addition follows news that center Matt Duchene underwent surgery for a core injury and is expected to miss three months. Dallas split back-to-back meetings with Colorado before the signing, losing at home Tuesday and winning in a shootout the following night. <\/p>\n
Boston Bruins Projected Lines<\/p>\n
Line 1: JJ Peterka \u2013 Fraser Minten \u2013 David Pastrnak<\/p>\n
Line 2: Marat Khusnutdinov \u2013 Matthew Poitras \u2013 Morgan Geekie<\/p>\n
Line 3: Casey Mittelstadt \u2013 Elias Lindholm \u2013 James Hagens<\/p>\n
Line 4: Tanner Jeannot \u2013 Sean Kuraly \u2013 Mark Kastelic<\/p>\n
Pair 1: Hampus Lindholm \u2013 Charlie McAvoy<\/p>\n
Pair 2: Jonathan Aspirot \u2013 Will Borgen<\/p>\n
Pair 3: Frederic Brunet \u2013 Mason Lohrei<\/p>\n
Goaltenders: Jeremy Swayman \u2013 Michael DiPietro<\/p>\n
Boston Bruins Special Teams<\/p>\n
Power play, First unit: Morgan Geekie \u2013 Elias Lindholm \u2013 Fraser Minten \u2013 David Pastrnak \u2013 Charlie McAvoy<\/p>\n
Power play, Second unit: James Hagens \u2013 Casey Mittelstadt \u2013 Matthew Poitras \u2013 Frederic Brunet \u2013 JJ Peterka<\/p>\n
Penalty kill, First unit: Sean Kuraly \u2013 Elias Lindholm \u2013 Jonathan Aspirot \u2013 Will Borgen<\/p>\n
Penalty kill, Second unit: Mark Kastelic \u2013 Marat Khusnutdinov \u2013 Hampus Lindholm \u2013 Charlie McAvoy<\/p>\n
Dallas Stars Projected Lines<\/p>\n
Line 1: Sam Steel \u2013 Wyatt Johnston \u2013 Mikko Rantanen<\/p>\n
Line 2: Jason Robertson \u2013 Roope Hintz \u2013 Tyler Seguin<\/p>\n
Line 3: Justin Hryckowian \u2013 Arttu Hyry \u2013 Jamie Benn<\/p>\n
Line 4: Joel Kiviranta \u2013 Radek Faksa \u2013 Colin Blackwell<\/p>\n
Pair 1: Esa Lindell \u2013 Miro Heiskanen<\/p>\n
Pair 2: Thomas Harley \u2013 Nils Lundkvist<\/p>\n
Pair 3: Lian Bichsel \u2013 Tyler Myers<\/p>\n
Goaltenders: Jake Oettinger \u2013 Casey DeSmith<\/p>\n
Dallas Stars Special Teams<\/p>\n
Power play, First unit: Wyatt Johnston \u2013 Roope Hintz \u2013 Mikko Rantanen \u2013 Miro Heiskanen \u2013 Jason Robertson<\/p>\n
Power play, Second unit: Jamie Benn \u2013 Justin Hryckowian \u2013 Tyler Seguin \u2013 Esa Lindell \u2013 Thomas Harley<\/p>\n
Penalty kill, First unit: Arttu Hyry \u2013 Sam Steel \u2013 Esa Lindell \u2013 Miro Heiskanen<\/p>\n
Penalty kill, Second unit: Colin Blackwell \u2013 Joel Kiviranta \u2013 Lian Bichsel \u2013 Thomas Harley<\/p>\n
Players To Watch<\/p>\n
David Pastrnak \u2014 Boston Bruins<\/p>\n
Pastrnak is coming off a goal and an assist on three shots in 20:57 last time out, and the underlying work backs it up. Box Score Junkie has him at 54.4% Corsi-for with 64.5 shot attempts per 60 this season, plus four goals on 3.1 expected. A fair shots-on-goal play.<\/p>\n
Mikko Rantanen \u2014 Dallas Stars<\/p>\n
Rantanen managed only one shot in his last game but still picked up an assist, and he is driving play as well as anyone here. Per Box Score Junkie, this season, he is at 60.3% Corsi-for, 67.0 shot attempts per 60, and 5.7 high-danger xG with him on the ice. Volume should return.<\/p>\n
Injury Report<\/p>\n
Boston Bruins<\/p>\n
Pavel Zacha (C) \u2014 Day-To-Day, Upper Body, expected back Tuesday, October 20<\/p>\n
Dallas Stars<\/p>\n
Oskar Back (C) \u2014 Injured Reserve, Finger, expected back Saturday, November 14<\/p>\n
Matt Duchene (C) \u2014 Injured Reserve, Abdomen, expected back Tuesday, January 12<\/p>\n
Luke Krys (D) \u2014 Injured Reserve, Undisclosed, expected back Sunday, October 25<\/p>\n
Cameron Hughes (C) \u2014 Injured Reserve, Upper Body, expected back Sunday, October 25<\/p>\n
Next Up<\/p>\n
Boston Bruins: host the Nashville Predators on Thursday, October 22.<\/p>\n
Dallas Stars: host the Winnipeg Jets on Thursday, October 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo by: Eric Canha \/ Imagn ImagesSports news updates The Boston Bruins visit the Dallas Stars at American…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5099],"tags":[73000,2322,154,95,5132,530,2154,147,2178,4112,5,5236,156,40692,3714,2876,270,4261,4,5573,7610,5330],"class_list":["post-691425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boston-bruins","tag-2026-27-nhl-regular-season","tag-american-airlines-center","tag-boston","tag-boston-bruins","tag-bostonbruins","tag-bruins","tag-charlie-mcavoy","tag-dallas-stars","tag-david-pastrnak","tag-fraser-minten","tag-hockey","tag-injury-report","tag-jeremy-swayman","tag-jonathan-aspirot","tag-line-combinations","tag-matt-duchene","tag-mikko-rantanen","tag-morgan-geekie","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-game-preview","tag-pavel-zacha","tag-sean-kuraly"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/117473520539742378","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691425","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=691425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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