{"id":481567,"date":"2025-12-31T04:22:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T04:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/481567\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T04:22:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T04:22:16","slug":"dallas-aims-to-start-2026-off-on-the-right-foot-vs-buffalo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/481567\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas aims to start 2026 off on the right foot vs. Buffalo"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dallas Stars<\/a> take on the Buffalo Sabres on Wednesday in their annual New Year\u2019s Eve game at American Airlines Center.<\/p>\n

Dallas is coming off two consecutive losses<\/a> against the Red Wings and the Blackhawks, though they managed to scrape a point away from each. Meanwhile, the Sabres have won nine straight.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what to know about the NYE matchup vs. Buffalo.<\/p>\n

Dallas Stars vs. Buffalo Sabres<\/p>\n

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When:<\/b> Wednesday, 7 p.m.<\/p>\n

Where:<\/b> American Airlines Center<\/p>\n

TV\/Streaming:<\/b> Victory+<\/p>\n

Radio:<\/b> Sportsradio 96.7\/1310 The Ticket<\/p>\n

Bottom line<\/p>\n

The Buffalo Sabres will attempt to keep their nine-game win streak alive when they visit the Stars.<\/p>\n

Dallas is 25-7-7 overall and 12-5-2 in home games. The Stars have a 10-1-4 record in games decided by a goal.<\/p>\n

Buffalo has an 8-9-2 record on the road and a 20-14-4 record overall. The Sabres have an 8-3-2 record when scoring a power-play goal.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Wednesday for the first time this season.<\/p>\n

Top performers<\/p>\n

Mikko Rantanen has 15 goals and 39 assists for the Stars. Jason Robertson<\/a> has five goals and three assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Tage Thompson has 18 goals and 16 assists for the Sabres. Noah Ostlund has scored four goals over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Last 10 games<\/p>\n

Stars:<\/b> 6-2-2, averaging 3.6 goals, 6.2 assists, 3.5 penalties and 8.3 penalty minutes while giving up 2.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n

Sabres:<\/b> 9-1-0, averaging 3.5 goals, six assists, 3.3 penalties and 6.6 penalty minutes while giving up 2.2 goals per game.<\/p>\n

\"This<\/a>New York Sirens top Seattle Torrent in PWHL\u2019s Takeover Tour at American Airlines Center<\/a><\/p>\n

Casey O\u2019Brien\u2019s hat trick included the game-winning goal for the Sirens with 4:20 remaining in the game.<\/p>\n

\"Dallas<\/a>Dallas Stars drop second straight game in shootout to NHL-worst Chicago Blackhawks<\/a><\/p>\n

Rantanen\u2019s goal and two assists were not enough to lift Dallas past a lowly Chicago squad.<\/p>\n

Find more Stars coverage from <\/b>The Dallas Morning News<\/b> here<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Stars take on the Buffalo Sabres on Wednesday in their annual New Year\u2019s Eve game at…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":481568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,1320,7003,62296,71991,293,4810,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-481567","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-stars","11":"tag-how-to-watch","12":"tag-jason-robertson","13":"tag-mikko-rantanen","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-stars","16":"tag-texas","17":"tag-tx","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115812273221834272","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}