Los Angeles Kings at Dallas Stars: game preview
Los AngelesKings2026-27: 0-2-1 · 1 pts · 2025-26: 35-27-20 · 90 pts · 20that
DallasStars2026-27: 1-2-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 50-20-12 · 112 pts · 3rdTwenty-two points apart last season
Los Angeles finished last season 20th in the league on 90 points. Dallas finished 3rd on 112.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 147
Across 146 completed games, Dallas lead the head-to-head 86-43-17.
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 23 Oct 2025, Los Angeles were 18th in the league and Dallas 24th. By 12 Jan 2026 it was 20th and 2nd.
Los Angeles out-attempted Dallas 158 to 154
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Los Angeles Kings
Dallas Stars
Los Angeles 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: 3 games for Los Angeles, 3 for Dallas. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Los Angeles, 10 for Dallas.
2025-26: 82 games for Los Angeles, 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
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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.
Expected starter after their game on 30 Jan: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Expected starter after their game on 30 Jan: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Los Angeles crease
LAK · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 5 Feb
No appearances against Dallas in the last meetings.
Dallas crease
DAL · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 5 Feb
No appearances against Los Angeles in the last meetings.
Scoring rates point to about 6.0 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
Los Angeles3.005.002.743.01
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.
7 on the injury lists
Los Angeles · injuries
Dallas · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Placed D Otto Salin on the injured non-roster list. Loaned G Erik Portillo to Ontario (AHL).
Waived for the purpose of assignment to Abbotsford (AHL) Fs Martin Chromia, Cole Guttman, Lane Pederson and Francesco Pinelli and D Joe Hicketts. Loaned Fs Aatu Jamsen and Koehn Ziemmer, Ds Angus Booth, Kirill Kirsanov and Jared Woolley to Ontario. Placed F Jan Jenik and D Jakub Dvorak on injured reserve.
Signed F Elton Hermansson to a three-year, entry-level contract.
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.
Los Angeles · 2026 draft
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