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| 5 | DALLAS | +130 | Ov 5.5,+100 | +155 | Ov 5.5,-105 | | 6 | VANCOUVER | -150 | Un 5.5,-120 | -175 | Un 5.5,-115 |
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| All Games | 11-18-0 | -9.4 | 11-18 | -9.4 | 16-12 | 2.9 | 29.6 | 3.6 | 32.0 | | Team Stats (Road Games) | 5-7-0 | -1.3 | 5-7 | -1.3 | 7-5 | 2.7 | 28.2 | 3.7 | 34.2 | | Last 5 Games | 2-3-0 | -1.3 | 2-3 | -1.3 | 4-1 | 3.0 | 31.0 | 3.8 | 29.8 |
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| Team Stats (All Games) | 29 | 85 | 28 | 36 | 20 | 1 | 3 | 859 | 9.9% | 104 | 16 | 15.4% | 148 | | Team Stats (Road Games) | 12 | 32 | 10 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 338 | 9.5% | 37 | 5 | 13.5% | 52 | | Team Stats (Last 5 Games) | 5 | 15 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 155 | 9.7% | 21 | 4 | 19.0% | 27 | | Stats Against (All Games) | | 103 | 26 | 33 | 39 | 5 | 4 | 928 | 11.1% | 102 | 22 | 21.6% | 182 | | Stats Against (Road Games) | | 45 | 15 | 12 | 18 | 0 | 2 | 410 | 11.0% | 47 | 10 | 21.3% | 78 | | Stats Against (Last 5 Games) | | 19 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 149 | 12.8% | 18 | 4 | 22.2% | 37 |
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| KARI LEHTONEN (All Games) | 24 | 24 | 737 | 665 | 90.2% | 0 | 11-13 | -4.3 | 11-13-0 | -3 | 12-11 | | KARI LEHTONEN (Road Games) | 8 | 8 | 272 | 248 | 91.2% | 0 | 5-3 | +2.8 | 5-3-0 | +2 | 4-4 | | KARI LEHTONEN (Last 4 Games) | 4 | 4 | 105 | 93 | 88.6% | 0 | 2-2 | -0.3 | 2-2-0 | 0 | 3-1 | | ANDERS LINDBACK (All Games) | 5 | 4 | 144 | 124 | 86.1% | 0 | 0-4 | -4.1 | 0-4-0 | -4 | 3-1 | | ANDERS LINDBACK (Road Games) | 3 | 3 | 107 | 93 | 86.9% | 0 | 0-3 | -3 | 0-3-0 | -3 | 2-1 | | ANDERS LINDBACK (Last 4 Games) | 4 | 3 | 112 | 95 | 84.8% | 0 | 0-3 | -3 | 0-3-0 | -3 | 3-0 | | JUSSI RYNNAS (All Games) | 2 | 1 | 44 | 37 | 84.1% | 0 | 0-1 | -1 | 0-1-0 | -1 | 1-0 | | JUSSI RYNNAS (Road Games) | 1 | 1 | 29 | 24 | 82.8% | 0 | 0-1 | -1 | 0-1-0 | -1 | 1-0 | | JUSSI RYNNAS (Last 4 Games) | 2 | 1 | 44 | 37 | 84.1% | 0 | 0-1 | -1 | 0-1-0 | -1 | 1-0 |
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| All Games | 18-12-0 | +4.6 | 18-12 | +4.6 | 16-11 | 3.0 | 31.3 | 2.9 | 28.4 | | Team Stats (Home Games) | 7-5-0 | +0.1 | 7-5 | +0.1 | 6-4 | 2.7 | 32.2 | 2.8 | 25.3 | | Last 5 Games | 1-4-0 | -3.9 | 1-4 | -3.9 | 3-2 | 2.0 | 31.2 | 3.4 | 28.4 |
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| Team Stats (All Games) | 30 | 89 | 16 | 37 | 32 | 4 | 9 | 940 | 9.5% | 94 | 17 | 18.1% | 149 | | Team Stats (Home Games) | 12 | 33 | 5 | 15 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 387 | 8.5% | 37 | 8 | 21.6% | 59 | | Team Stats (Last 5 Games) | 5 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 156 | 6.4% | 14 | 0 | 0.0% | 16 | | Stats Against (All Games) | | 86 | 25 | 38 | 21 | 2 | 4 | 852 | 10.1% | 101 | 14 | 13.9% | 151 | | Stats Against (Home Games) | | 34 | 10 | 14 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 304 | 11.2% | 32 | 5 | 15.6% | 62 | | Stats Against (Last 5 Games) | | 17 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 142 | 12.0% | 18 | 1 | 5.6% | 28 |
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| EDDIE LACK (All Games) | 10 | 7 | 268 | 244 | 91.0% | 0 | 2-5 | -3.1 | 2-5-0 | -3 | 4-3 | | EDDIE LACK (Home Games) | 3 | 3 | 83 | 73 | 88.0% | 0 | 0-3 | -3.3 | 0-3-0 | -3 | 2-1 | | EDDIE LACK (Last 4 Games) | 4 | 3 | 105 | 98 | 93.3% | 0 | 1-2 | -1.2 | 1-2-0 | -1 | 2-1 | | RYAN MILLER (All Games) | 23 | 23 | 581 | 523 | 90.0% | 1 | 16-7 | +7.7 | 16-7-0 | +8 | 12-8 | | RYAN MILLER (Home Games) | 9 | 9 | 221 | 198 | 89.6% | 1 | 7-2 | +3.4 | 7-2-0 | +4 | 4-3 | | RYAN MILLER (Last 4 Games) | 4 | 4 | 86 | 72 | 83.7% | 0 | 1-3 | -2.7 | 1-3-0 | -2 | 3-1 |
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| 11/20/2014 | ARIZONA | 3-1 | W | 0, -160 | W | 5.5 un | U | | 11/22/2014 | LOS ANGELES | 5-4 | W | 0, +105 | W | 5 ov | O | | 11/25/2014 | EDMONTON | 3-2 | W | 0, -190 | W | 5.5 ov | U | | 11/28/2014 | MINNESOTA | 4-5 | L | 0, -120 | L | 5.5 un | O | | 11/29/2014 | at COLORADO | 2-5 | L | 0, +125 | L | 6 un | O | | 12/2/2014 | at TORONTO | 3-5 | L | 0, +115 | L | 6 ov | O | | 12/4/2014 | at DETROIT | 2-5 | L | 0, +165 | L | 5.5 ov | O | | 12/6/2014 | MONTREAL | 4-1 | W | 0, -130 | W | 5.5 un | U | | 12/9/2014 | WINNIPEG | 2-5 | L | 0, -130 | L | 5.5 un | O | | 12/13/2014 | NEW JERSEY | 4-3 | W | 0, -160 | W | 5.5 un | O | | 12/17/2014 | at VANCOUVER | | | 12/19/2014 | at CALGARY | | | 12/21/2014 | at EDMONTON | | | 12/23/2014 | TORONTO | | | 12/27/2014 | at ST LOUIS | |
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| 11/20/2014 | ANAHEIM | 3-4 | L | 0, +105 | L | 5 ov | O | | 11/23/2014 | CHICAGO | 4-1 | W | 0, -110 | W | 5.5 un | U | | 11/25/2014 | NEW JERSEY | 2-0 | W | 0, -165 | W | 5 ov | U | | 11/28/2014 | at COLUMBUS | 5-0 | W | 0, -145 | W | 5.5 un | U | | 11/30/2014 | at DETROIT | 3-5 | L | 0, +115 | L | 5 ov | O | | 12/2/2014 | at WASHINGTON | 4-3 | W | 0, -110 | W | 5.5 un | O | | 12/4/2014 | at PITTSBURGH | 3-0 | W | 0, +120 | W | 5.5 ev | U | | 12/6/2014 | at TORONTO | 2-5 | L | 0, -125 | L | 5.5 ov | O | | 12/7/2014 | at OTTAWA | 3-4 | L | 0, -140 | L | 5.5 un | O | | 12/9/2014 | at MONTREAL | 1-3 | L | 0, +100 | L | 5 ov | U | | 12/13/2014 | NY RANGERS | 1-5 | L | 0, -145 | L | 5 ov | O | | 12/17/2014 | DALLAS | | | 12/20/2014 | CALGARY | | | 12/22/2014 | ARIZONA | | | 12/28/2014 | at ANAHEIM | |
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| |  | DALLAS: LAST SEASON: 40-31-11, 91 points, 5th Central Division. Made Western Conference playoffs as wild card, lost first-round playoff series in six games to top-seeded Anaheim.
COACH: Lindy Ruff, 2nd season with Stars, 40-31-11; 17th season overall in NHL, was 571-432-162 in Buffalo.
ADDED: C Jason Spezza, RW Ales Hemsky; G Anders Lindback, RW Patrick Eaves.
LOST: RW Alex Chiasson, D Aaron Rome, LW Ray Whitney.
PLAYER TO WATCH: Jamie Benn. In his first season as the Stars captain, the 25-year-old Canadian ranked eighth in the NHL with 79 points and ninth with 34 goals. Both were career highs, as was his plus-21 rating. Benn has increasingly accepted his role as a leader on a team filled with plenty of 20-something players, and is part of a dynamic scoring line with Tyler Seguin.
OUTLOOK: With the experience of a hard-fought first-round series in their first season under veteran Ruff, the Stars expect to do more than just make the playoffs this time around. That is a reasonable goal with their added scoring punch. With Benn and Seguin on the front line, the Stars will have another line with 31-year-old former Ottawa teammates Spezza and Hemsky likely together. | | VANCOUVER: LAST SEASON: 36-35-11, finished 12th in the Western Conference and missed the playoffs.
COACH: Willie Desjardins, first season with the Canucks.
ADDED: C Nick Bonino, LW Derek Dorsett, G Ryan Miller, D Luca Sbisa, RW Radim Vrbata.
LOST: RW Zac Dalpe, D Jason Garrison, C Ryan Kesler, C Mike Santorelli, C Jordan Schroeder.
PLAYER TO WATCH: Ryan Miller. On June 29, 2013, the Canucks had a goaltending tandem of Roberto Luongo and Cory Schneider. When Vancouver's season ended 288 days later, the duo in net was Eddie Lack and Jacob Markstrom after Schneider and Luongo were traded. In a combined 45 games with Vancouver, Lack and Markstrom were 17-19-5 with a 2.39 goals against average and .908 save percentage. Miller, who was signed to a three-year, $18 million free agent deal, has a 2.55 GAA and .916 save percentage the last four seasons.
OUTLOOK: The dismissals of coach John Tortorella and Kesler, traded to Anaheim, can be seen as addition by subtraction. Kesler's in-season trade request became a distraction for a team whose 2013-14 campaign was an unmitigated failure. So the Canucks can do nothing but improve in 2014-15. Will there be enough improvement to qualify for a playoff berth? That may be too much to ask for a team in the tough Western Conference. |
| | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PA SPORTSTICKER HOCKEY PREVIEW (DALLAS-VANCOUVER) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
*Stars-Canucks Preview* =======================
By JORDAN GARRETSON STATS Writer
Dallas (11-13-5) at Vancouver (18-10-2), 10:00 p.m. EDT
Defensive lapses and sub-par goaltending have proved costly during the Vancouver Canucks' longest losing streak of the season.
They'll try to clean things up and end the skid Wednesday night when they host the Dallas Stars, who have won the last five meetings.
Vancouver (18-10-2) was tied for first in the Western Conference on Dec. 4 but has since dropped four straight. The latest defeat came Saturday, when the Canucks gave up three goals in the first 6:46 and lost 5-1 at home to the New York Rangers.
Vancouver has limited opponents to one power-play goal on 15 chances during the slide, but it's been susceptible to giving up goals in spurts. The Canucks surrendered two goals in spans of fewer than two minutes twice in a 5-3 loss to Toronto on Dec. 6, then gave up three straight goals during an 8:05 stretch of a 4-3 overtime defeat in Ottawa on Dec. 7.
"There's no excuse for that. We know that we've got to be better than that," coach Willie Desjardins said. "Sometimes there's nights like this. They're never acceptable, but the only thing we can do is get better. We have no choice. The only choice we have is to get better."
Vancouver has allowed 17 goals during the losing streak and Ryan Miller has posted a 4.11 goals-against average in dropping four of his last five starts.
"You're going to go through a season, you're going to have to find a way to dig out of things," Miller said. "This is our first opportunity to have to dig out of a hole that's a little deeper than usual."
Miller has allowed 4.35 goals per game in five straight losses to Dallas, the latest a 6-3 road defeat Oct. 21 that came despite the Canucks holding a 46-28 shot advantage. He was pulled in the second period after allowing five goals on 13 shots.
The Stars' Erik Cole scored twice in that game and has 12 goals and three assists in his last 10 meetings with Vancouver, though he has one goal in his last 14 games overall.
Dallas (11-13-5) was in danger of blowing another lead Saturday but held on for a 4-3 win over New Jersey, its second in three games. The Stars squandered a 2-0 edge by allowing two goals in the first 7:46 of the second period, but Trevor Daley and Shawn Horcoff scored to put Dallas up by 2 again entering the third.
The Stars, who led in 12 of their 18 losses, won despite being outshot 11-3 in the third period.
"That seemed to be the way it's been going, but we feel if we work hard, we're going to get results," Daley said. "Tonight was one of those games."
Tyler Seguin, who scored his 23rd goal to easily lead the league, has four goals and seven assists in his last five meetings with Vancouver.
The Stars are trying to end a four-game road losing streak as they open a three-game trip. They've allowed five power-play goals in 21 opportunities over their last four away from home.
"It really is one game at a time. Let's move on to the next one," coach Lindy Ruff told the team's official website. "... We've got to get back to playing good hockey on the road again."
Before its most recent victory in the series, Dallas had held Vancouver to one goal each time in the previous four wins.
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| | Last Updated: 4/23/2024 7:13:01 AM EST. |
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