Chicago Blackhawks at Dallas Stars: game preview
ChicagoBlackhawks2026-27: 1-3-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 29-39-14 · 72 pts · 31stat
DallasStars2026-27: 1-2-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 50-20-12 · 112 pts · 3rdForty points apart last season
Chicago finished last season 31st in the league on 72 points. Dallas finished 3rd on 112, and the 2025-26 season series went CHI 2-0-1.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 146
Across 145 completed games, Dallas lead the head-to-head 79-47-19.
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 27 Dec 2025, Chicago were 31st in the league and Dallas 2nd. By 8 Mar 2026 it was 27th and 6th.
Dallas out-attempted Chicago 179 to 151
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Chicago Blackhawks
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 Chicago, 3 for Dallas. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Chicago, 10 for Dallas.
2025-26: 82 games for Chicago, 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
Chicago
Small sampleDallas
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.
Chicago crease
CHI · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 30 Dec
No appearances against Dallas in the last meetings.
Dallas crease
DAL · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 30 Dec
No appearances against Chicago in the last meetings.
Scoring rates point to about 5.9 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
Chicago2.254.252.603.35
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
Chicago · injuries
Dallas · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Assigned D Charles Alexis Legault to Chicago (AHL).
Agreed to terms with F Oliver Moore on a five-year contract extension. Loaned Fs Jiri felcman, Martin Misiak and Marek Vanacker and D Dylan Anhorn to Rockford (AHL). Assigned F Brett Seney to Rockford.
Placed D Derrick Pouliot on waivers.
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.
Chicago · 2026 draft
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