Stars at Wild preview

STARS (17-15-3) at WILD (17-15-2)
8 p.m. ET; FS-N, FS-SW+, KTXA, NHL.TV

The Wild have been outscored 8-2 in a three-game losing streak and are 3-8-0 in their past 11 games. Minnesota has allowed two goals or fewer in four of five games and has scored one or no goals in three straight.
The Stars are 1-5-0 following a four-game winning streak and have scored two goals or fewer in four of their past six games. They have allowed four goals or more four times in that span.

Players to watch

Stars forward Tyler Seguin has six points (three goals, three assists) in a four-game point streak.
Wild forward Jordan Greenway has two goals in his past three games. Five of his six goals this season have been the first goal of the game for the Wild.

They said it

"[Dallas and Minnesota] are two teams that haven't been playing good enough to win games. They have a veteran team. When you're playing Minnesota you usually win 2-1 or 3-2, so we're expecting that and hoping to bounce back ourselves." -- Stars forward Tyler Seguin
"We're almost even in points (with Dallas). We're even in an awful lot of situations; defense, offense (and) it's a divisional game, which I think both teams find very important, so it should almost be playoff atmosphere-like I think."-- Wild coach Bruce Boudreau

Stars projected lineup

Jamie Benn -- Tyler Seguin --
Denis Gurianov
Valeri Nichushkin -- Jason Spezza -- Alexander Radulov
Mattias Janmark -- Jason Dickinson -- Blake Comeau
Radek Faksa -- Devin Shore -- Brett Ritchie
Esa Lindell -- John Klingberg
Miro Heiskanen -- Taylor Fedun
Gavin Bayreuther -- Roman Polak
Ben Bishop
Anton Khudobin
Scratched:Julius Honka, Tyler Pitlick
Injured: Martin Hanzal (back), Stephen Johns (upper body), Connor Carrick (lower body), Marc Methot (lower body)

Wild projected lineup

Jason Zucker -- Eric Staal -- Mikael Granlund
Zach Parise -- Mikko Koivu -- Nino Niederreiter
Jordan Greenway -- Charlie Coyle --
Luke Kunin
Marcus Foligno -- Eric Fehr -- JT Brown
Ryan Suter -- Jared Spurgeon
Jonas Brodin -- Greg Pateryn
Nick Seeler -- Nate Prosser
Devan Dubnyk
Alex Stalock
Scratched:Matt Hendricks, Joel Eriksson Ek
Injured:Mathew Dumba (upper-body)

Status report

Hanzal did not make the trip but is expected to play when the Stars host the New York Islanders on Sunday. … Spezza returns after missing two games with an illness. … Dumba is scheduled to have surgery next week and will be out indefinitely with an upper-body injury.

Stat pack

Benn has five points (two goals, three assists) in a four-game point streak. ... Radulov has four assists in a three-game point streak. …Parise has no points in his past three games after six (two goals, four assists) in a three-game point streak.