Tonight at 8:30 p.m. ET, the Chicago Blackhawks (21-6-5, 47 points) and Dallas Stars (14-9-5, 33 points) go head-to-head live from the American Airlines Center in Dallas in the fourth of five meetings against each other this season. The game can be live streamed here. Chicago fans can hear all of the hard-hitting action on 720 WGN while Dallas fans can do the same on Sportsradio 1310 The Ticket.
Chicago enters play coming off their first win in four tries while Dallas hopes to keep racking up points after adding three points in their last two games. The Blackhawks topped the Stars in the first two meetings, both of which were in Dallas, with a 5-2 victory Nov. 9 and then a 2-1 shootout victory on Nov. 29, but the Stars took the last meeting by topping the Blackhawks 4-3 in Chicago last Tuesday.
The Blackhawks got off of a three-game slide with a 6-2 victory over the Florida Panthers on Sunday, but goaltender Corey Crawford fell with a lower-body injury and is sidelined for at least three weeks. Antti Raanta filled in the rest of the way.
"[Raanta] has done a good job," coach Joel Quenneville said via NHL.com. "He's played some games now. We'll get to see him a little bit more and he's doing what we want him to do."
Raanta is 3-0-1 with a 2.16 goals-against average and a .922 save percentage. Kari Lehtonen is the projected starter for Dallas and is 11-5-5 with a 2.25 GAA and a .926 save percentage.
The Stars are coming off of a 5-1 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday where Tyler Seguin scored a natural hat trick.
Seguin leads the Stars with 27 points off of 15 goals and 12 assists while captain Jamie Benn has seven tallies and 19 helpers for 26 points and Cody Eakin has lit the lamp seven times and added nine assists for 16 points.
Patrick Kane has five points in his past five games and has 37 points to lead the Blackhawks off of 16 goals and 21 assists while Patrick Sharp and captain Jonathan Toews each have 12 goals and 15 assists for 27 points.
The Blackhawks look to hang in there with their goalie out while the Stars look to continue stringing points together when they hit the ice tonight in Dallas.
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