Tonight at 7:00 p.m. ET, the Dallas Stars (20-16-7, 47 points) and New York Rangers (22-20-3, 47 points) faceoff live from Madison Square Garden in New York City for their second and final meeting this season. The game can be live streamed here. Dallas fans can hear all of the action on 105.3 The Fan while New York fans can do the same on 98.7 WEPN.
Dallas hasn't won yet in 2014 and enters play on a four-game skid while New York has gotten points in three straight games (2-0-1) heading into tonight. The first time these two teams met, the Rangers topped the Stars 3-2 in Dallas on Nov. 21.
The Rangers may have gotten goaltender Henrik Lundqvist to turn it around as he is 3-1-0 in his last four starts and stopped a late flurry to fend off the reigning Stanley Cup champion Chicago Blackhawks on the road on Wednesday.
"It's great for [Henrik]," forward Carl Hagelin told NHL Network. "He plays at his best when his confidence is high, like any other goalie."
Lundqvist is 13-16-3 with a 2.76 goals-against average and a .907 save percentage. Dallas has mostly turned to Kari Lehtonen, who is 16-11-7 with a 2.64 GAA and a .915 save percentage thus far this season.
The Stars are coming off of a 1-0 loss at the hands of the New Jersey Devils Thursday night where Lehtonen stopped 33 of the 34 shots that he faced but still couldn't put away the Devils.
"1-0 games are games that goalies want," Lehtonen said per NHL.com. "I wish we would have been the one with the one goal at the end."
Dallas has been led by Tyler Seguin (21-20-41), Jamie Benn (15-22-37) and Valeri Nichushkin (9-13-22) while Mats Zuccarello (11-20-31), Brad Richards (11-20-31) and Derek Stepan (7-19-26) pace New York. Richards is on a three-game point streak and has four points in that span.
The Stars seek their first win in January while the Rangers hope to continue rolling after a big win over the defending champions when the puck is dropped at Madison Square Garden tonight in New York City.
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