The Nashville Predators (27-40-8, 62 factors) look to keep away from a fifth straight loss as they wrap up a three-game highway journey with a go to to the Dallas Stars (49-21-4, 102 factors) Thursday at American Airways Middle.
The season sequence between Nashville and Dallas is break up at 1-1, with the Stars incomes a 4-3 Opening Night time win over the Predators at Bridgestone Enviornment, and Nashville getting a 4-1 victory Dec. 12 in Dallas.
The Stars are chasing the Winnipeg Jets for first place within the Central Division, whereas the Predators are firmly in thirtieth place within the NHL and within the combine for a lottery decide within the upcoming NHL Draft.
Justus Annunen, who performed the third interval of the Predators' 8-4 loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets on Tuesday after Juuse Saros was pulled from the sport, will get the beginning in purpose for Nashville in opposition to Dallas. Jake Oettinger will get the nod for the Stars.
How the Predators Lined Up vs. Dallas
Bunting-O'Reilly-Evangelista
Forsberg-Stamkos-L'Heureux
Smith-McCarron-Vrana
Bellows-Svechkov-Wiesblatt
Skjei-Blankenburg
Del Gaizo-Barron
Englund-Oesterle
Annunen
Saros
Further: Stastney (day-to-day, upper-body), Marchessault (day-to-day, lower-body), Sissons (week-to-week, lower-body), Wooden
IR: Lauzon, Josi, Wilsby
The Predators introduced previous to Thursday's sport that defenseman Spencer Stastney could be out of the lineup and is taken into account day-to-day with an upper-body harm. Forwards Colton Sissons and Marchessault, who missed every of the earlier two video games with lower-body accidents, may even miss Thursday's contest in opposition to Dallas.
Ahead Ozzy Wiesblatt, whom the Predators recalled from the AHL's Milwaukee Admirals Thursday morning, slots in on the fourth line with Kieffer Bellows and Fedor Svechkov. Wiesblatt provides depth to the Predators' injury-depleted ahead group after Nashville was pressured to ice 11 forwards and 7 defensemen in every of their final two video games.
Ahead Matthew Wooden, the Predators' 2023 first-round draft decide who signed his three-year, entry-level contract on Saturday, has joined the group in Dallas however has but to make his NHL debut with the group.
