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It’s hard to believe that a team with Bobby Ryan, Teemu Selanne, Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry have just nine wins in 32 games and 11 straight road losses. The good news is that the Ducks are actually playing better and the return of their best defenseman, Lubomir Vishnovsky, is a big boost. This will be Vishnovsky’s third game back. The Ducks are allowing a lot less scoring chances and shots on net since Bruce Boudreau took over and it’s only a matter of time before they start winning some games. There’s too much talent on this club to maintain that losing percentage over a long period of time and they catch the Stars at the perfect time. Richard Bachman makes his fifth straight start in net. He was good in his first three games but the Devils got to him in his last game for six goals. That makes him a lot more fragile. He was brought up from the minors because Kari Lehtonen went down and Andrew Raycroft is an insufficient #1 goaltender. Unfortunately, Bachman is not ready for prime time and may never be. In today’s NHL, when goaltenders are typically above 6 ft. tall, Bachman comes in at 5’ 9” and that makes the net appear huge to these NHL snipers that are used to seeing monsters in there. Dallas also returns home from a tough five-game trip that started on the west coast and ended with three games on the east coast. Anaheim’s record-losing road funk has its best shot of ending tonight. Play: Anaheim +138 (Risking 2 units).
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