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had three goals and two assists in the four games against Dallas
this season. ...Robidas returned to the Dallas lineup after
missing seven games with a concussion. ...The Stars were without
D Trevor Daley (upper-body strain), RW Jere Lehtinen (lower-body
strain), C Eric Lindros (groin), D Darryl Sydor (hand), and RW
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| April 2, 2007
DALLAS -- The Dallas Stars' plans for an
eighth Pacific Division title in the past 10 seasons took a hit courtesy
of the St. Louis Blues.
Glen Metropolit and Doug Weight scored in
a 17-second span in the second period to help the Blues stop the Stars'
four-game winning streak with a 4-2 victory on Monday night.
Lee Stempniak scored two goals, including
an empty-netter with 24 seconds left, and Curtis Sanford stopped 28
shots for the Blues, who won three of the four meetings this season.
Mike Ribeiro and Brenden Morrow scored
for the Stars, who remain at 102 points, four behind the Pacific
Division-leading Anaheim Ducks.
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Dallas had gone 10-1-1 over its previous 12
games to put the pressure on Anaheim, but the Stars have only three
games left to overtake the Ducks.
"We're still in the race heading
into our final three games and our focus is to be playing as well as we
can heading into the playoffs," Stars coach Dave Tippett said.
"If we do that, the points will take care of themselves."
The Stars, who've clinched a playoff
spot, could have captured the division title if they had won their final
four games. By finishing with four straight victories, the Stars would
have been no worse than tied with the Ducks and would have had more
victories, the first tiebreaker. Now Dallas needs help.
"We didn't want this team to keep us
from getting
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home ice and winning the division,"
Morrow said. "It's definitely disappointing."
The Stars were on a roll with consecutive
road wins over the weekend against Western Conference playoff teams
Detroit and Nashville. But Dallas failed to maintain that momentum.
"We knew this would be a tough game
coming off the emotional high against Nashville and Detroit,"
Morrow said. "But great teams find a way to win this one. It was a
missed opportunity for sure."
With the game tied at 1, Metropolit put
the Blues in front with his 14th goal from the right circle at 13:44
after a turnover by Stars defenseman Stephane Robidas. Weight's
deflection for his 15th of the...more
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Stars assign
Ellis and Lundqvist to AHL, recall Smith
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| December
15, 2006
DALLAS (AP) -- The Dallas Stars recalled
goaltender Mike Smith from the AHL Iowa Stars on Friday and assigned
center Joel Lundqvist and goaltender Dan Ellis to the minor league team.
Earlier Friday, the Stars had assigned
Smith to the Iowa team in exchange for Ellis, but Ellis' flight to Los
Angeles for the Stars'
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game Saturday was canceled, the team said.
Smith will be the backup goalie Saturday, he said.
Smith has a 5-3-0 record for Dallas this
season, with a 2.27 goals-against average and a .903 save percentage.
Ellis has a 7-7-0 record for Iowa this
season, with a 3.85 goals-against average and a .871 save percentage. He
played his
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only NHL game with Dallas in a 4-3 win
against Los Angeles in February 2004.
Lundqvist, who appeared in his fifth NHL
game Thursday night against the New York Rangers, has scored eight goals
in 25 games for Iowa this season.
Lundqvist's twin, Henrik, is the Rangers
goalie.
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Modano joins Mullen as highest scoring
U.S. players
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Dallas center Mike
Modano tied Joe Mullen as the highest scoring American-born player with his
502nd career goal in the Stars' game against the Nashville Predators on Saturday
night.
With the Stars on the power play, Modano skated
down the left side and took a pass from defenseman Darryl Sydor at the blue
line. Modano pulled up at the left faceoff dot and fired a wrist shot between
the legs of Nashville goalie Tomas Vokoun.
Modano's total came in his 1,227th game. Mullen
had his 502 goals in 1,062 games.
Modano, who has played his entire career with the
Minnesota/Dallas franchise, has scored a goal in four consecutive games.
Stars sign former first-round pick
Niskanen
FRISCO, TEXAS -- The Dallas Stars on Monday
signed defenseman Matt Niskanen to a three-year contract at undisclosed
financial terms.
Dallas' first-round selection in the 2005 draft,
Niskanen recently finished a stellar career at the University of
Minnesota-Duluth. His new contract begins next season and runs through the
2009-10 campaign.
The 195-pound Niskanen collected 10 goals and 35
assists in 77 career games at Minnesota-Duluth and also represented the United
States in the 2006 World Junior Championships.
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