After beating up on the San Jose Sharks, what is going to the Vancouver Canucks handle for an encore Saturday in opposition to the Dallas Stars?
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Dallas Stars (7-1-1) vs. Vancouver Canucks (7-2-1)
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When/the place: Saturday, 7 p.m. Rogers Enviornment
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TV: Hockey Evening In Canada. Radio: Sportsnet 650
The excitement: What a distinction two days within the NHL makes: one evening you’re enjoying a crew that’s higher suited to the minors, the following you’re up in opposition to an actual Stanley Cup contender. The Stars are main the Central Division. The Stars have received three straight video games. The Canucks are coming off a 10-1 win. If each groups present up, this might be one of many video games of the early season.
The historical past: These groups confronted one another 3 times final season, all inside a month or so. The Stars received the primary sport in late February in additional time, however the Canucks had been decisive winners within the latter two contests as they began to search out their present kind beneath head coach Rick Tocchet.
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The hope: The Canucks have been scoring at an unsustainable charge, even earlier than they lit the Sharks up for 10. In some unspecified time in the future their offence will come crashing again to actuality; they simply don’t need that to occur Saturday.
The worry: The Canucks uncover that their taking pictures luck has lastly turned on them they usually can’t discover the web.
The highest weapons: Elias Pettersson appears to be coping with some kind of minor harm and performed simply 14 minutes Thursday, however he nonetheless had three assists. He now has 19 factors on the 12 months, second-most within the NHL. J.T. Miller is tied for fourth in league scoring, whereas no defenceman has extra factors than Quinn Hughes. Amongst goalies who’ve began 4 video games or extra thus far this season, Thatcher Demko’s 94 save share is fourth-best within the NHL. Dallas’s Jake Oettinger sits one spot behind Demko, having stopped 93.9 per cent of the pictures in opposition to him. The Stars have two of the NHL’s finest two-way centres in Roope Hintz and Joe Pavelski, they’ve 11 and 10 factors, respectively. The ageless Jamie Benn has 9 factors whereas Jason Robertson, who completed fourth in Hart Trophy voting final season, has eight factors.
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The wounded: Canucks: Teddy Blueger (ankle) and Guillaume Brisebois (concussion, LTIR). Stars: Radek Faksa (higher physique) and Jerad Rosburg (undisclosed).
The quote: “We’re profitable due to the crew.” — Tocchet after his membership’s 10-1 thumping of San Jose.
The lineup:
Forwards
Mikheyev-Pettersson-Kuzmenko
Di Giuseppe-Miller-Boeser
Beauvillier-Suter-Garland
Studnicka-Lafferty-Höglander
Defence
Hughes-Hronek
Cole-Friedman
Soucy-Myers
The prediction: The Stars are on a heater and whereas the Canucks hope to be thought of as deep because the Stars, they nonetheless must show they’re. This shall be a good one, received by Dallas 3-2.
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