Canucks at Stars preview

CANUCKS (29-32-10) at STARS (37-29-5)
7 p.m. ET; SN, FS-SW, NHL.TV

The Stars have 79 points and occupy the first wild card into the playoffs from the West. They are also two points behind the third-place St. Louis Blues in the Central Division.
Dallas, which has won six of its last eight games (6-2-0), likely will be without goaltender Ben Bishop. He missed a 2-1 loss to the Vegas Golden Knights on Friday with a lower-body injury and left Sunday's morning skate early after facing some shots.
The Canucks are 2-4-2 in their past eight games and are 3-6-3 in their past 12 games. They are 10 points behind the Arizona Coyotes for the second wild card position in the Western Conference.

Players to watch

Canucks forward Brock Boeser has six points (two goals, four assists) in a five-game point streak.
Stars forward Alexander Radulov has 10 points (seven goals, three assists) in his past 10 games.

They said it

"I don't take playing for granted, so I'll make the most of being back in tonight. The Stars have been playing a lot of good hockey and have top-end skill. We're expecting a hard-fought game." -- Canucks defenseman Luke Schenn on returning to the lineup after being scratched the past two games
"We've worked hard to find and create an identity that we'd become a very difficult team to play against, and I think we've seen that more over the last 20 games consistently than we did earlier in the year. The consistency of how we want to play has been the biggest improvement." -- Stars assistant coach Rick Bowness

Canucks projected lineup

Josh Leivo -- Elias Pettersson -- Brock Boeser
Loui Eriksson -- Bo Horvat -- Tanner Pearson
Markus Granlund -- Adam Gaudette -- Jake Virtanen
Tim Schaller -- Jay Beagle -- Tyler Motte
Alexander Edler -- Alex Biega
Guillaume Brisebois -- Troy Stetcher
Ashton Sautner -- Luke Schenn
Jacob Markstrom
Thatcher Demko
Scratched: Derrick Pouliot, Nikolay Goldobin, Josh Teves
Injured: Antoine Roussel (knee), Quinn Hughes (ankle), Ben Hutton (foot), Ryan Spooner (groin), Brandon Sutter (lower body), Sven Baertschi (concussion)

Stars projected lineup

Roope Hintz -- Tyler Seguin -- Alexander Radulov
Jamie Benn -- Jason Dickinson -- Joel L'Esperance
Andrew Cogliano -- Radek Faksa -- Mattias Janmark
Valeri Nichushkin -- Jason Spezza -- Brett Ritchie
Esa Lindell -- John Klingberg
Miro Heiskanen -- Roman Polak
Taylor Fedun -- Ben Lovejoy
Anton Khudobin
Landon Bow
Scratched: Julius Honka, Jamie Oleksiak
Injured: Stephen Johns (upper body), Marc Methot (knee), Martin Hanzal (back), Tyler Pitlick (wrist), Mats Zuccarelo (broken arm), Ben Bishop (lower body), Blake Comeau (undisclosed)

Status report

Baertschi participated in the morning skate. … Comeau participated in the morning skate but did not take line rushes. He will be a game-time decision.

Stat pack

Pettersson has one goal and five assists in his past 12 games. … Seguin has seven points (one goal, six assists) in his past eight games.