Stars at Devils preview

STARS (18-13-1) at DEVILS (17-9-5)
7 p.m. ET; MSG+, FS-SW NHL.TV

Hitchcock, who is 799-487-112 with 88 ties in 21 seasons (1,486 games) with the Stars, Philadelphia Flyers, Columbus Blue Jackets and St. Louis Blues, would join Hockey Hall of Famer Scotty Bowman (1,244 wins in 2,141 games) and Chicago Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville (867 wins in 1,571 games).
Goaltender Kari Lehtonen will make his third straight start for Dallas, which has won the first two games of a four-game road trip.
Forward Taylor Hall will likely miss his second straight game for the Devils with a knee contusion. New Jersey has lost three of its past four games (1-2-1).

Players to watch

Stars defenseman John Klingberg ranks first in the League at the position with 27 points (four goals, 23 assists).
Devils forward Brian Gibbons leads New Jersey with 12 goals, and his three shorthanded goals are tied for second in the NHL with Buffalo Sabres forward Evander Kane, one behind center Aleksander Barkov of the Florida Panthers, who has four.

They said it

"I don't focus on that stuff now. When I passed Al [Arbour, 782 wins] it was humbling to say the least and uncomfortable because of what we all considered Al to be, and Scotty [Bowman]. My contemporary is really Joel Quenneville. We came in the League close to the same time. But those two guys are in rarefied air and they belong there." -- Stars coach Ken Hitchcock on being one win away from 800
They've beaten two Metropolitan teams coming in, so we are going to have our hands full. " -- Devils forward Stefan Noesen on facing Dallas

Stars projected lineup

Jamie Benn -- Tyler Seguin -- Devin Shore
Antoine Roussel -- Radek Faksa -- Tyler Pitlick
Mattias Janmark -- Jason Spezza -- Alexander Radulov
Remi Elie -- Martin Hanzal -- Brett Ritchie
Esa Lindell -- John Klingberg
Dan Hamhuis -- Greg Pateryn
Stephen Johns -- Julius Honka
Kari Lehtonen
Ben Bishop
Scratched: Jason Dickinson, Jamie Oleksiak, Gemel Smith
Injured: Marc Methot (knee)

Devils projected lineup

Jesper Bratt -- Nico Hischier -- Drew Stafford
Blake Coleman -- Travis Zajac -- Brian Gibbons
Miles Wood -- Pavel Zacha -- Stefan Noesen
Jimmy Hayes -- Brian Boyle -- Nick Lappin
Andy Greene -- Steven Santini
John Moore -- Sami Vatanen
Will Butcher -- Damon Severson
Keith Kinkaid
Cory Schneider
Scratched:Dalton Prout, Ben Lovejoy
Injured: Taylor Hall (knee), Kyle Palmieri (broken foot), Mirco Mueller (collarbone), Marcus Johansson (ankle bruise)

Status report

Roussel, who missed the past two games with an elbow injury, will return, but Hitchcock didn't say for whom. ... Hynes didn't name a starter, but said the Devils could use Schneider, who started on Thursday, in both sets of a back-to-back for the first time this season.

Stat pack

Benn has five points (two goals, three assists) in a three-game point streak. ... Noesen has six points (two goals, four assists) in a five-game point streak.