DALLAS -- The Dallas Stars are 4-for-33 on the power play in their past 12 games, so coach Lindy Ruff made that the focus of the morning skate Monday prior to facing the Calgary Flames at American Airlines Center (8:30 p.m. ET; SNW, FS-SW).

Dallas (30-14-5) lost 3-1 to the Colorado Avalanche on Saturday with two of Colorado's goals coming while shorthanded, something Ruff doesn't want to see repeated.

"Our attention and sense of danger wasn't good at all and obviously getting scored against twice, but our desperation, make sure that the other team, even though that I think the pain we had was self-inflicted, that we don't allow the other team to create energy off our power play," Ruff said.

DALLAS -- Colorado Avalanche defenseman Erik Johnson will return to the lineup Saturday against the Dallas Stars at American Airlines Center (8 p.m. ET; ALT, FS-SW).

Johnson, who missed the past nine games with a lower-body injury, will play for the first time since Jan. 4. He was one of five players to take the ice Saturday morning as the Avalanche didn't hold a full skate after defeating the St. Louis Blues 2-1 at Pepsi Center on Friday.

The Stars are looking to reverse their recent fortunes against the Avalanche, having lost 10 of 11 (1-7-3) against them under coach Lindy Ruff.

"I think their goalie has had our number a little bit on some occasions where we've totally dominated games and haven't put it away. There was a couple of games we let them back into the game late where it looked like they weren't going to get into it," Ruff said of the Stars' struggles against the Avalanche.

DALLAS -- The Dallas Stars will try to end a four-game losing streak (0-3-1) on Thursday when they play the Edmonton Oilers at American Airlines Center (8:30 p.m. ET; SNW, FS-SW).

The Stars, who are 1-5-2 in January, are happy to return home, where they are 17-5-0, after losing eight straight (0-5-3) on the road, including an 0-2-1 California trip.

"If you're going to lose them on the road, you got to come home and win. It was one of the things we set out to do, was improve the home record and so far we have," Dallas coach Lindy Ruff said. "Coming back off a road trip is always a tough one, but it's a game here in our building that we look at to turn things around."

DALLAS-- Defenseman Mike Reilly will make his NHL debut for the Minnesota Wild against the Dallas Stars at American Airlines Center on Saturday (8 p.m. ET; FS-N, FS-WI, FS-SW).

Reilly, the 2015 Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year at Minnesota, was recalled from Iowa of the American Hockey League on Friday, had 13 assists and 18 points in 32 AHL games this season.

"Now that I'm here, it's kind of surreal," Reilly, a fourth-round pick in the 2011 NHL Draft, said. " You've just got to enjoy this process but it's a big game tonight for the team, so we want to come out with two points. Very exciting though."

Reilly will skate alongside Jonas Brodin in the Wild's third defensive pair.

DALLAS -- As the Winnipeg Jets conclude their longest road trip of the regular season at American Airlines Center on Thursday against the Dallas Stars (8:30 p.m. ET; FS-SW, TSN3), the Jets hope to find something that's eluded them for much of this season: consistency.

The Jets (19-19-2) defeated the Nashville Predators 4-1 at Bridgestone Arena on Tuesday, improving them to 2-2-0 on the road trip. Winnipeg will aim to win consecutive games for the seventh time this season, but has yet to win three straight.

"It [consistency] is an easy thing to talk about, but I feel like that's kind of been the way things have been going for us this year, is we win a couple games, we lose a couple games," Jets center Bryan Little said. "For us to have a chance this year, I think we're going to have to get on a roll and try and get wins consistently to get points."

DALLAS -- The Dallas Stars are one of two teams in the NHL yet to lose consecutive games this season, and look to keep that trend going when they host the Nashville Predators at American Airlines Center on Thursday (8:30 PM ET; FS-TN, FS-SW).

Along with the Washington Capitals, currently on a nine-game winning streak, Dallas (27-8-3), which lost 6-3 at the Columbus Blue Jackets on Tuesday, has not lost back-to-back games this season, and Stars coach Lindy Ruff has a good idea why.

"Well, I think so far this year we've seen after that loss, our next game has a lot of determination to make sure we don't lose two in a row, and that's hard," Ruff said. "We're going to see that determination again tonight. I think a lot of it again is going to depend on the energy we're bringing into the game."

DALLAS -- Brian Elliott will start in goal for the St. Louis Blues against the Dallas Stars on Sunday at American Airlines Center (6 p.m. ET; FS-MW, FS-SW+).

Coach Ken Hitchcock confirmed the move following the 3-2 shootout victory against Dallas on Saturday night at Scottrade Center. David Backes scored the deciding goal in the ninth round, and goalie Jake Allen made 22 saves.

Elliott, who is 5-0 against the Western Conference this season, is starting for the first time since Dec. 19, when he made 36 saves in a 3-2 win against the Calgary Flames in St. Louis.

DALLAS -- When the Chicago Blackhawks face the Dallas Stars at American Airlines Center on Tuesday (8:30 p.m. ET; CSN-CH, FS-SW+), Stars defenseman Johnny Oduya and forward Patrick Sharp will play against their former team for the first time since coming to Dallas during the offseason.

"I honestly think it is just another game. It'll be a little different because it's the first time I've played against my former team, but being in the Central Division, you look way down the line," Sharp said. "We're going to play these guys quite a bit, so any thoughts or feelings or emotions I have about playing my friends and my former teammates are going to be gone quickly because we're going to see each other quite a bit down the stretch."

Oduya, who has four assists and 12 points in 34 games, was part of Chicago's Stanley Cup-winning teams in 2013 and 2015 and signed with the Stars as a free agent last summer. Sharp, who has 11 goals and 25 points, played on all three of the Blackhawks' recent Cup winners (2010, 2013, 2015) and came to Dallas with minor league defenseman Stephen Johns in a summer trade for defenseman Trevor Daley and forward Ryan Garbutt.

DALLAS -- The Montreal Canadiens will have Alex Galchenyuk at left wing on the top line when they play the Dallas Stars on Saturday at American Airlines Center (7 p.m. ET; NHLN, TVA Sports, CITY, FS-SW+).

Galchenyuk will be on a line with center Tomas Plekanec and right wing Max Pacioretty.

"We like what we saw last game when we put those three guys together," Canadiens coach Michel Therrien said. "They got chances. The result was not always there but they got some chances."

The Canadiens are 1-6-0 and have scored 11 goals in their past seven games, sparking more than just a change on the top line.

DALLAS -- The Calgary Flames' current six-game winning streak started on Dec. 1 when the Flames defeated the Dallas Stars 4-3 in a shootout at the Scotiabank Saddledome.

But Flames coach Bob Hartley knows that victory carries little if any weight when the Flames and Stars meet again on Thursday at American Airlines Center (8:30 p.m. ET; SNF, FS-SW).

"I think that was a turnaround win for us," Hartley said. "The guys competed hard, but having said this I think tonight is a totally different challenge. [Dallas] is a team that is very dangerous offensively, starting from their back end looking at the entire lineup, so we'll have to make sure that we don't let them get started right from their own zone. Our puck pursuit, our decisions with the puck will be vital in tonight's game."