Hurricanes at Stars

HURRICANES (8-3-0) at STARS (5-3-3)

Hurricanes projected lineup
Jordan Martinook -- Sebastian Aho -- Teuvo Teravainen
Andrei Svechnikov -- Jordan Staal -- Warren Foegele
Nino Niederreiter -- Vincent Trocheck -- Brock McGinn
Morgan Geekie
-- Martin Necas -- Jesper Fast
Jaccob Slavin -- Brett Pesce
Brady Skjei -- Dougie Hamilton
Jake Gardiner -- Haydn Fleury
Alex Nedeljkovic
James Reimer
Scratched: Steven Lorentz
Injured: Petr Mrazek (upper body), Max McCormick (upper body)
Stars projected lineup
Jamie Benn -- Joe Pavelski -- Joel Kiviranta
Jason Robertson -- Roope Hintz -- Denis Gurianov
Andrew Cogliano -- Radek Faksa -- Blake Comeau
Justin Dowling -- Jason Dickinson --
Tanner Kero
Esa Lindell -- John Klingberg
Jamie Oleksiak -- Miro Heiskanen
Andrej Sekera -- Mark Pysyk
Jake Oettinger
Anton Khudobin
Scratched: Taylor Fedun, Joel Hanley
Injured: Tyler Seguin (hip), Alexander Radulov (lower body), Stephen Johns (post-traumatic headaches), Ben Bishop (knee)
Status report
The Hurricanes acquired forwards Cedric Paquette and Alex Galchenyuk in a trade with the Ottawa Senators for forward Ryan Dzingel on Saturday. ... Necas is expected to return after missing three games with an upper-body injury. ... Kero (undisclosed) will be a game-time decision. ... The Stars reassigned forwards Ty Dellandrea and Nick Caamano to the taxi squad Friday.