Tonight at 10:30 p.m. ET, the Dallas Stars and Anaheim Ducks skate against each other for Game 5 of their Stanley Cup Playoffs Round 1 series live from the Honda Center in Anaheim. The game can be live streamed for free here. Dallas fans can hear all of the action on 1310 The Ticket while Anaheim fans can do the same on KLAA 830.
Dallas is hoping to sustain what they were able to do at home when they return to the Honda Center as they lost the first two games there but were able to get back in to the series with two wins at American Airlines Center. Anaheim hopes that its two-game skid in Dallas won't carry over to Honda Center, where they won the first two games of the series.
The Ducks won the first two games of the series at home with a 4-3 win in Game 1 and a 3-2 Game 2 triumph while the Stars won Game 3 in Dallas by a 3-0 margin and notched a 4-2 victory in Game 4.
The Stars have leaned heavily on defenseman Alex Goligoski, who logged 32:48 of ice time in Game 4.
"You get in playoffs and, I don't know, adrenaline kind of takes over," Goligoski told the Stars website. "During the game, you feel fine, and the next day you're a little banged up, but I don't know, next game day you seem to feel fine again."
The Ducks hope to have Ryan Getzlaf back in the lineup after he missed Game 4 and his status still isn't known.
"It's all about getting clearance at this point," Getzlaf told NHL.com. "It's part of the process. We'll see what happens later today."
Getzlaf has paced the Ducks with four points off of two goals and two assists in the series while Corey Perry, Mathieu Perreault and three other players each have a goal and an assist for two points.
One player that will be back in the lineup for Anaheim is veteran Teemu Selanne, who was a healthy scratch in Game 4.
Jamie Benn (three goals, one assist) and Shawn Horcoff (four helpers) lead the Stars with four points through the first four games while Colton Sceviour and Cody Eakin have each lit the lamp once and added two assists for three points.
Kari Lehtonen will man the crease for Dallas after making nine saves on 144 shots through the first four games while Frederik Andersen will play between the pipes for Anaheim after yielding 12 goals on 118 shots in the opening four contests.
Jonas Hiller filled in for Andersen after he was pulled by coach Bruce Boudreau in Game 4, but Boudreau said he's "confident" that Andersen will bounce back.
The Stars and Ducks faceoff for Game 5 of their Round 1 Stanley Cup Playoffs series tonight when the puck drops at the Honda Center in Anaheim.
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