Winnipeg Jets (8-8-3, in the Central Division) vs. Dallas Stars (10-5-2, in the Central Division)<\/p>\n
Dallas; Thursday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Winnipeg Jets visit the Dallas Stars after Dawson Mercer’s two-goal game against the New Jersey Devils in the Jets’ 4-2 win.<\/p>\n
Dallas is 10-5-2 overall with a 3-3-0 record in Central Division play. The Stars have a 9-0-0 record in games they score three or more goals.<\/p>\n
Winnipeg is 8-8-3 overall and 2-1-2 against the Central Division. The Jets are 2-6-1 in games their opponents commit fewer penalties.<\/p>\n
Thursday’s game is the second time these teams match up this season. The Stars won the last meeting 3-2 in overtime. Roope Hintz scored two goals in the win.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Wyatt Johnston has three goals and 13 assists for the Stars. Mikko Rantanen has seven goals and seven assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Kyle Connor has 15 goals and six assists for the Jets. Neal Pionk has scored three goals and added three assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Stars: 7-2-1, averaging 3.3 goals, 5.8 assists, 4.2 penalties and 9.5 penalty minutes while giving up 2.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Jets: 4-5-1, averaging 2.9 goals, five assists, 3.9 penalties and 8.7 penalty minutes while giving up 3.7 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Stars: Oskar Back: out (finger), Kyle Capobianco: out (leg), Miro Heiskanen: out (upper body), Matt Duchene: out (abdomen).<\/p>\n
Jets: Nick Bjugstad: out (pectoral), Vladislav Namestnikov: out (undisclosed), Elias Salomonsson: out (personal).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Jets (8-8-3, in the Central Division) vs. Dallas Stars (10-5-2, in the Central Division) Dallas; Thursday, 8…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5117],"tags":[196,147,5278,5,4,292,43,197],"class_list":["post-709093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas-stars","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-stars","tag-dallasstars","tag-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-hockey","tag-sports","tag-stars"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/117599199741496029","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709093","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=709093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}