Toronto Maple Leafs at Dallas Stars: game preview
TorontoMaple Leafs2026-27: 2-2-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 32-36-14 · 78 pts · 28that
DallasStars2026-27: 1-2-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 50-20-12 · 112 pts · 3rdThirty-four points apart last season
Toronto finished last season 28th in the league on 78 points. Dallas finished 3rd on 112.
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Meeting number 66
Across 65 completed games, Toronto lead the head-to-head 35-26-4.
Last 5 meetings
See all: Last 5 meetings →The table on each 2025-26 meeting night
League rank after that night's games; a longer bar is a higher place. On 21 Dec 2025, Toronto were 25th in the league and Dallas 2nd. By 13 Apr 2026 it was 28th and 3rd.
Toronto out-attempted Dallas 113 to 99
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Toronto Maple Leafs
Dallas Stars
Dallas have created the better chances, last 10 games
Shot quality both ways: expected goals weigh every unblocked attempt by its chance of scoring. Finishing above zero means more goals than the chances.
This season: 4 games for Toronto, 3 for Dallas. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Toronto, 10 for Dallas.
2025-26: 82 games for Toronto, 82 for Dallas.
Power play and penalty kill, season and series
This season's rates first, then 2025-26 and the last meetings between the two. Power-play chances are counted from the penalty log with coincidental minors cancelled; faceoffs are each club's wins over draws taken.
All bars share one scale · 0–100%SeasonLast meetings
Toronto
Small sampleDallas
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Each club's top three forwards and defencemen by points this season, with 2025-26 one tap away.
Who has stopped this matchup
Save percentage in the last meetings by goalie. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Toronto crease
TOR · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 6 Dec
No appearances against Dallas in the last meetings.
Dallas crease
DAL · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 6 Dec
No appearances against Toronto in the last meetings.
Scoring rates point to about 6.2 goals
No total is posted yet: it arrives with the game-day prices. Until then, the scoring rates and the recent meetings set the range.
Goals in the last 5 meetings
Bar length is total goals, coloured by the winner.
Scoring rates
Toronto2.752.753.093.65
Dallas2.002.003.402.76Goals for and against per game. The estimate averages each team’s scoring with the other’s goals allowed, and leans on 2025-26 until a team has played 20 games.
9 on the injury lists
Toronto · injuries
Dallas · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Placed RW Nikita Grebenkin on injured reserve.
Moved C Max Domi from the non-roster list to long-term injured reserve.
Placed D Cade Webber on the injured non-roster list.
Assigned D Cameron Bertucci to Texas (AHL).
Placed F Matt Duchene on long-term injured reserve retroactive to Sept. 29. Recalled Fs Arttu Hyry and Colin Blackwell from Texas (AHL).
Signed G Casey DeSmith to a two-year contract.
Toronto · 2026 draft
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