Tonight at 7:00 p.m. ET, the Dallas Stars (6-6-2, 14 points) and the Boston Bruins (8-5-0, 16 points) hit the ice for the first of two meetings this season live from the TD Garden in Boston. The game cam be live streamed here. Dallas fans can hear all of the action by tuning their radios to 105.3 The Fan while Boston fans can do the same on WBZ-FM 98.5 The Sports Hub.
The Stars enter the game tied for last place with the Winnipeg Jets in the Central Division, and are 10 points behind the division-leading Colorado Avalanche while the Bruins are in fourth place in the Atlantic Division, four points behind the first place Tampa Bay Lightning.
The Bruins drafted Tyler Seguin with the No.2 overall pick in 2010, but he'll return to Boston as a member of the Dallas Stars for the first time ever following a July trade, and will look to continue his torrid pace as he leads the Stars in goals (6) and points (15) and has nine assists. Seguin has paved the way for Dallas along with Jamie Benn (four goals, nine assists,13 points) and Alex Chiasson (5-5-10).
Dallas is coming off of a 3-2 shootout victory over the Ottawa Senators on Sunday in a game where 18-year-old Russian and No. 10 draft pick in the 2013 NHL Draft, Valeri Nichushkin, notched his first-career goal.
"You look at not only this game, but a few games before it and you can see he is getting more comfortable," Stars defenseman Sergei Gonchar told the Stars' website. "He's controlling the puck a little bit more, you can see it coming. It seems like he is making nice progress."
The Bruins open up a much-needed five-game homestand after dropping three of their last four and will have Loui Eriksson back in the lineup to face his old team after he missed five games with a concussion. Boston is coming off of a 3-1 loss to the New York Islanders on Saturday.
"I don't know what you want to call it but I call it 'not good enough,' " Julien told reporters after the game per NHL.com. "There's no way in the world you should come in here [to Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum] and play the way you play. We're not competing hard enough."
Boston has been led by David Krejci, who has two tallies and 11 helpers for a team-high 13 points while Milan Lucic has lit the lamp six times and has added six assists for 12 points.
Between the pipes, Boston has turned to Tuukka Rask in 11 of their 13 games thus far and he's posted a 7-4-0 record with a solid 1.73 goals-against-average and a .940 save percentage while Dallas has gone with Kari Lehtonen for nine of its 15 games and he has put together a 5-2-2 record with a 1.94 GAA and a .936 save percentage.
Tyler Seguin comes to Boston for the first time as a member of the Stars when these teams take the ice against each other tonight at the TD Garden.
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