Dallas Stars at Nashville Predators: game preview
DallasStars2026-27: 1-2-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 50-20-12 · 112 pts · 3rdat
NashvillePredators2026-27: 1-1-1 · 3 pts · 2025-26: 38-34-10 · 86 pts · 23rdTwenty-six points apart last season
Dallas finished last season 3rd in the league on 112 points. Nashville finished 23rd on 86, and the 2025-26 season series went DAL 3-0-0.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 127
Across 126 completed games, Dallas lead the head-to-head 69-44-12.
Last 5 meetings
See all: Last 5 meetings →The table on each meeting night
League rank after that night's games; a longer bar is a higher place. On 26 Oct 2025, Dallas were 12th in the league and Nashville 18th. By 3 Oct it was 30th and 21st.
Dallas out-attempted Nashville 278 to 262
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Dallas Stars
Nashville Predators
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: 3 games for Dallas, 3 for Nashville. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Dallas, 10 for Nashville.
2025-26: 82 games for Dallas, 82 for Nashville.
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 sampleNashville
Small sampleRyan O'Reilly has 7 points in the last 5 meetings
Each club's top three forwards and defencemen by points this season, with 2025-26 one tap away, then who has produced in the last meetings.
Ryan O'Reilly vs Dallas · game by game
See all: Ryan O'Reilly vs Dallas · game by game →Juuse Saros has been the difference
Juuse Saros faced 85 shots across 3 appearances against Dallas and conceded 5, a .941 save percentage against a season figure of .907. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Dallas crease
DAL · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 7 Apr
Two goalies used against Nashville
Juuse Saros
See all: Juuse Saros →NSH · 1-1-1 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 7 Apr
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
Dallas2.002.003.402.76
Nashville2.333.003.013.28Goals 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.
5 on the injury lists
Dallas · injuries
Nashville · 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.
Recalled G Matt Murray from Milwaukee (AHL). Placed G Justus Annunen on injured reserve.
Recalled LW Yegor Pinchuk from Milwaukee (AHL). Assigned G Matt Murray to Milwaukee.
Recalled G Matthew Murray from Milwaukee (AHL).
Dallas · 2026 draft
See all: Dallas · 2026 draft →Nashville · 2026 draft
See all: Nashville · 2026 draft →Saturday 10 April · the full slate
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