Stars-Bruins Preview

Dallas Stars at Boston Bruins
Saturday November 1
6:00  PM
TV: FSN | Radio: WBAP-820 AM

The Stars are coming off a 5-2 loss in Chicago Friday night, which dropped them to 4-5-2 on the season. It was the sixth time in 11 games that the Stars have allowed 5 or more goals this season.

"We need to cut down on our goals against," Stars center Mike Ribeiro said. "It's been like five goals a night we have allowed, and we can't expect to score six goals every night."

The Stars are 2-4-0 on the road this season. Marty Turco, who has not played the last two games, will get the start Saturday night.

Injuries: C Brad Richards (lower body) and D Doug Janik (eye) are day-to-day. D Sergei Zubov (hip), F Jere Lehtinen (groin) F Joel Lundqvist (shoulder) are out.

The Bruins (5-3-3) had their three-game winning streak snapped with a 3-2 loss in Calgary on Wednesday. Boston won two of three on the Western Canada road trip, beating Edmonton and Vancouver by 1-0 scores before falling to the Flames.

"Four points are good," Boston coach Claude Julien said of the road trip. "But at the same time, we don't want to win just two out of three. We want to be greedy."

Saturday's game will be the ninth in 15 days for the Bruins. After playing eight of their first 11 games on the road, the Bruins play eight of 13 at home in the month of November.

Injuries: F Chuck Kobasew (fractured leg) is out.

• This is the first and only meeting between the two teams this season.
• The Stars won the only meeting last season, beating the Bruins 4-1 in Dallas.
• The Stars are 29-71-23 all-time against Boston.

• Brenden Morrow, Mike Ribeiro and Loui Eriksson have points in four straight games for Dallas.
• Boston's Marc Savard has points in four straight games.
• G Tim Thomas had his shutout streak end at 145:41 on Tuesday when Calgary scored on a power play at 2:29 of the second period.
• The Bruins have the 30th ranked penalty kill in the league at 71.1 percent.