Dallas Stars at Carolina Hurricanes: game preview
DallasStars2026-27: 1-2-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 50-20-12 · 112 pts · 3rdat
CarolinaHurricanes2026-27: 2-1-1 · 5 pts · 2025-26: 53-22-7 · 113 pts · 2ndOne points apart last season
Dallas finished last season 3rd in the league on 112 points. Carolina finished 2nd on 113.
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Meeting number 55
Across 54 completed games, Dallas lead the head-to-head 30-19-5.
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 25 Oct 2025, Dallas were 17th in the league and Carolina 8th. By 6 Jan 2026 it was 2nd and 5th.
Carolina out-attempted Dallas 148 to 102
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Dallas Stars
Carolina Hurricanes
Dallas and Carolina are level on 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 Dallas, 4 for Carolina. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Dallas, 10 for Carolina.
2025-26: 82 games for Dallas, 86 for Carolina.
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
Dallas
Small sampleCarolina
Small sampleSkaters to watch
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.
Dallas crease
DAL · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 22 Mar
No appearances against Carolina in the last meetings.
Carolina crease
CAR · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 22 Mar
No appearances against Dallas in the last meetings.
Scoring rates point to about 6.1 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
Dallas2.002.003.402.76
Carolina2.753.003.612.93Goals 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.
6 on the injury lists
Dallas · injuries
Carolina · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →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.
Placed G Cayden Primeau on waivers.
Placed C Seth Jarvis on the injured non-roster list. Placed LD Juuso Valimaki on waivers.
Placed C Seth Jarvis on the injured non-roster list. Placed D Juuso Valimaki on waivers.
Dallas · 2026 draft
See all: Dallas · 2026 draft →Carolina · 2026 draft
See all: Carolina · 2026 draft →Thursday 25 March · the full slate
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