- 1 Dallas Stars vs New Jersey Devils: five straight wins against three straight, and a 1.23 goaltender in the middle
- 2 Dallas Stars: Oettinger’s 1.23 average and a homestand without Faksa and Steel
- 3 New Jersey Devils: 34 shots a game, a 74.1% penalty kill and Gritsyuk’s hot week
- 4 Free NHL Prediction: Dallas Stars vs New Jersey Devils
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Dallas Stars vs New Jersey Devils: five straight wins against three straight, and a 1.23 goaltender in the middle 
Jason Robertson has eight points in his last four games, three goals and five assists, and he’s had at least two points in every one of them. He scored twice on Sunday, including a breakaway in the third period, as Dallas beat the New York Islanders 6-3 for a fifth straight win.
The New Jersey Devils are next into the American Airlines Center, on Tuesday 27 October with puck drop at 8:00pm ET. It’s the fourth game of a six-game homestand for the Stars, who are 7-3-1, and New Jersey arrive at 7-4-0 on a three-game winning run of their own.
Both teams have collected 1.60 points per game across their last five, but they’ve done it in opposite ways. New Jersey have scored 36 goals and allowed 32 in 11 games. Dallas have scored 32 and allowed 20 in 11, and before Sunday they’d conceded 17 times in 10 games.
Dallas won three of the last four meetings between these teams: 4-2 in New Jersey in February 2025, 4-3 at home in March 2025 and 3-0 in New Jersey in December 2025. The Devils won the most recent one, 6-4 in Dallas on 24 March 2026.
Lines for Tuesday’s games hadn’t been posted when we filed this preview. We’d expect Dallas to open as the favourite, and we’d still back them at a short price because of who’s in goal and how little they’ve allowed.
Dallas Stars: Oettinger’s 1.23 average and a homestand without Faksa and Steel 
Jake Oettinger posted a 1.23 goals-against average and a .939 save percentage over the five games before Sunday, and he didn’t allow a power-play goal in that stretch. He made 17 saves against the Islanders, while Ilya Sorokin faced 38 shots at the other end.
The Stars’ winning run has been tight for most of it. They beat Colorado 3-2 in a shootout, Chicago 4-0, Boston 3-2 in overtime and Winnipeg 3-2 in overtime before Sunday’s 6-3. Three of the five went past regulation, which says more about the defense than the attack.
Mikko Rantanen had three goals and four assists in the five games before Sunday, then scored his 322nd NHL goal against the Islanders to pass Olli Jokinen for third among Finland-born players. Roope Hintz had four goals in that same run and added two assists on Sunday, while Tyler Seguin and Wyatt Johnston each finished with a goal and an assist.
Glen Gulutzan’s roster is thinner than it was a week ago. Radek Faksa left Thursday’s win over Winnipeg with a lower-body injury and Sam Steel sat out Sunday after an injection, and Gulutzan said both could miss Tuesday. Esa Lindell is on injured reserve and Matt Duchene is out for around three months after core surgery.
With those absences, Dylan Hryckowian and Matthew Seminoff both made their NHL debuts on Sunday, Dylan lining up alongside his older brother Justin. Even so, Dallas came into the week killing 91.7% of penalties and winning 57.1% of faceoffs.
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New Jersey Devils: 34 shots a game, a 74.1% penalty kill and Gritsyuk’s hot week 
Arseny Gritsyuk has five goals and two assists in New Jersey’s last five games, the most goals of anyone on either roster over that span. Luke Evangelista has four points in three games since his illness cleared, and Jack Hughes has a goal and three assists across the same five.
The Devils put 34.1 shots a game on net, against 26.7 for Dallas. They’ve scored 3.27 goals per game, the higher of the two teams, and their power play converts 20.6% of the time. On volume alone, New Jersey are the more dangerous attack in this game.
New Jersey’s weakness sits at the other end of the ice. They’ve allowed 2.91 goals per game and their penalty kill runs at 74.1%, almost 18 points below Dallas. Against a Stars team with Robertson and Rantanen both producing on the power play, that’s a gap they’ll need to close.
Jake Allen is 5-2 with a 2.84 average and an .886 save percentage. Nico Daws is 2-2 with an .872. Neither number compares well with Oettinger’s, and New Jersey have outscored opponents mostly by outshooting them.
The three-game streak came at home: 4-3 against Colorado, 4-1 against Anaheim and 3-1 against Los Angeles on Saturday. Before that they lost 4-2 in Washington, and the 7-1 win over the Rangers on 15 October is the only time in their last five that they scored more than four.
Probable lineup Dallas Stars: Jake Oettinger in goal; Robertson, Rantanen, Hintz, Seguin, Johnston up front (Faksa and Steel doubtful)
Probable lineup New Jersey Devils: Jake Allen in goal; Gritsyuk, Jack Hughes, Evangelista up front
Free NHL Prediction: Dallas Stars vs New Jersey Devils
Our prediction: Dallas Stars to win
We’re backing the Stars on the strength of their goaltending and their penalty kill. Oettinger allowed 1.23 goals a game over his five starts before Sunday, and a 91.7% kill against a 74.1% kill gives Dallas the edge whenever a penalty is called.
New Jersey will have more of the puck and more shots, and Gritsyuk is scoring, and we accept both points. But the Devils have played their last three at home, Allen’s save percentage sits under .890, and Dallas have won three of the last four meetings.
The price wasn’t available when we wrote this, so check it before betting. If the moneyline opens shorter than 1.45, Dallas on the puck line or Under the total are the alternatives we’d look at, but our pick is the Stars to win.
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