Vancouver Canucks at Dallas Stars: game preview
VancouverCanucks2026-27: 2-2-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 25-49-8 · 58 pts · 32ndat
DallasStars2026-27: 1-2-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 50-20-12 · 112 pts · 3rdFifty-four points apart last season
Vancouver finished last season 32nd in the league on 58 points. Dallas finished 3rd on 112.
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Meeting number 127
Across 126 completed games, Dallas lead the head-to-head 64-47-15.
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 16 Oct 2025, Vancouver were 19th in the league and Dallas 8th. By 2 Mar 2026 it was 32nd and 6th.
Dallas out-attempted Vancouver 172 to 166
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Vancouver Canucks
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 Vancouver, 3 for Dallas. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Vancouver, 10 for Dallas.
2025-26: 82 games for Vancouver, 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
Vancouver
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.
Vancouver crease
VAN · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 20 Feb
No appearances against Dallas in the last meetings.
Dallas crease
DAL · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 20 Feb
No appearances against Vancouver in the last meetings.
Scoring rates point to about 6.4 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
Vancouver4.754.502.633.85
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
Vancouver · injuries
Dallas · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Placed G Nikita Tolopilo on waivers.
Claimed G Leevi Merilainen off waivers from Ottawa. Placed F Filip Chytil on injured reserve. Assigned F Braeden Cootes to Abbotsford (AHL).
Assigned Fs Ty Mueller, Riley Patterson, Ilya Safonov and Chase Wouters, Ds Kirill Kudryavtsev and Sawyer Mynio to Abbotsford (AHL). Loaned F Ben Berard and D Isaac Belliveau to Abbotsford. Waived for the purpose of assignment to Abbotsford F Trey Fix-Wolansky and Ds Cole Clayton and Jimmy Schuldt.
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.
Vancouver · 2026 draft
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