NHL Game Preview: Dallas Stars at New York Islanders with Line Combinations 2/23/2025

Matt Duchene and Jake Oettinger
Photo: Elias Valverde

Dallas Stars at New York Islanders

Venue: UBS Arena
Date: Sunday, February 23
Time: 7:30 pm EST 
TV: ESPN+ / MSGSN / Victory+
Radio: 
Dallas Stars – The Ticket 96.7 FM / 1310 AM
New York Islanders – WRHU 88.7 FM / 103.9 FM LI News Radio

DraftKings Sportsbook Betting Lines:
Dallas Stars -1.5 ML +190
New York Islanders +1.5 ML -230
O/U 5.5

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Dallas Stars News & Notes:

Dallas has plenty of extra cap space with Tyler Seguin on LTIR. They’ve already added Granlund and Ceci from the San Jose Sharks and have yet to get solid production from them, albeit only being a handful of games played.

New York Islanders News & Notes: 

With the Islanders five points outside the Wild Card standings, they dropped back-to-back games to the Winnipeg Jets and Minnesota Wild before the 4 Nations break. The press is on for the Islanders to pile on some points prior to the trade deadline and decide their fate this season.

Dallas Stars Projected Lines:

Robertson-Hintz-Johnston
Marchment-Duchene-Granlund
Benn-Bourque-Dadonov
Back-Blackwell-Stankoven

Harley-Lindell
Bichsel-Dumba
Smith-Ceci

Oettinger
DeSmith

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New York Islanders Projected Lines:

Lee-Horvat-Duclair
Tsyplakov-Nelson-Palmieri
Cizikis-Pageau-Holmstrom
Engvall-MacLean-Gatcomb

Romanov-DeAngelo
Pelech-Perunovich
Cholowski-Boqvist

Sorokin
Hogberg

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Players To Watch:

Dallas Stars

Matt Duchene has stepped up his offense in the absence of Tyler Seguin. With 23 goals and 34 assists for 57 points in 56 games played this season.

New York Islanders 

Anders Lee leads the team in goals with 23. Brock Nelson returns from the 4 Nations with his name atop NHL Trade Bait Boards.

Injury Report:

Dallas Stars

D Miro Heiskanen – IR
C Tyler Seguin – IR
D Nils Lundqvist – IR

New York Islanders

D Mike Reilly – IR
G Semyon Varlamov – IR
D Noah Dobson – IR
C Mathew Barzal – Out 6 Weeks
G Marcus Hogberg – OUT

Next Game:

Dallas Stars – February 25 at Columbus Blue Jackets
New York Islanders – February 25 vs. New York Rangers

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