PREVIEW: Blackhawks at Stars - March 9, 2021

TIME: 7:30 p.m. CT
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The Blackhawks embark on a six-game road trip beginning on Tuesday night in Dallas as Patrick Kane is set to skate in his 1,000th NHL game, becomming the seventh Blackhawk to reach the feat with the club.

TEAM RECORDS

CHI: 13-8-5, 31 PTS
DAL: 7-8-5, 19 PTS

LAST TIME OUT

Chicago dropped a 6-3 outing to the Tampa Bay Lightning on Sunday afternoon with Philipp Kurashev, Mattias Janmark and Pius Suter all scored in the loss and Kevin Lankinen made 33 stops in the defeat.
Dallas rallied from a 3-0 hole in the third period on Sunday against Columbus to earn a point, but fell 4-3 in a shootout to the Blue Jackets. Jason Robertson, Radek Faksa and Joe Pavelski all scored in the comeback bid, while Jake Oettinger made 17 saves in the loss.
The Blackhawks took both previous meetings between the two teams in Dallas, each a 2-1 overtime victory. Alex DeBrincat scored both goals, including the overtime-winner, on Feb. 7 and Pius Suter scored the winner two nights later on Feb. 9.
Kane has points (3G, 5A) in six of his last seven games against the Stars and DeBrincat has 10 points (5G, 5A) in 13 games in his career against Dallas.

1KANE

Patrick Kane is set to become the youngest player in franchise history (32 years, 110 days) to play in their 1000th game, all with the Blackhawks when he suits up this evening. Brent Seabrook is currently the youngest in club history (32 years, 343 days) to achieve the milestone.
Kane would become the 350th player in NHL history to play in their 1000th game and would also become the youngest U.S.-born player to score 400 goals and play in their 1000th career game. Mike Modano (32 years, 249 days) and Jeremy Roenick (32 days, 303 days) are the only other two players to achieve the feat prior to their 33rd birthday.

400 CLUB

Kane netted the 400th goal of his NHL career on Feb. 28. He is the ninth U.S.-born skater, 10th active and 100th player overall in league history to score 400 career goals. Kane is the fifth youngest U.S.-born player to reach 400 career markers (32 years, 101 days). He joins Steve Larmer (406), Stan Mikita (541) and Bobby Hull (604) as the only players in franchise history to notch 400 markers with the club.

LETHAL COMBINATION

Alex DeBrincat and Kane have teamed up for a point on the same marker 22 times this season, three more than the next closest set of teammates: Edmonton's Leon Draisaitl and Connor McDavid (20) and Winnipeg's Blake Wheeler and Mark Scheifele (19).

ROCKIN' ROOKS

Five Blackhawks rookies have notched their first career NHL goals marker this season. Pius Suter added to his league rookie scoring lead (8) on Sunday and Philipp Kurashev shares shares second among rookie goal scoring leaders (6) during the 2020-21 campaign. Suter is fourth with 13 points and Kurashev is eighth with 10 points. Brandon Hagel's six assists this season share fifth among league rookies.
Chicago leads the NHL with 19 goals and 41 points from rookies this season.