2010 Compuware NHL Premiere Series – Ottawa Senators host the Dallas Stars
The Ottawa Senators will be hosting the Dallas Stars in the only game that will take place between the two teams during the current NHL regular season. The teams last met in 20th March 2010 which saw the Dallas Stars edge ahead winning 5-4 after
a very tight and competitive battle between the two teams. Though the Dallas Stars trailing the Ottawa Senators by 2 goals, they crawled their way back into the match and won it in the end. Brad Richards turned out to be the star for the Dallas Star as the
scored a pair of goals.
The last match of the Ottawa Senators saw the their veteran players Alex Kovalev rise to the challenge and score during power play which eventually won the Senators the match 3-2 over the Los Angeles Kings.
Not only this, the match marked this player scoring 1000 points in NHL being in his 18th year as a player and made a brilliant assist to the Jason Spezza later in the match as he scored and the Senators was successful in overpowering the Kings.
"It's kind of hard for me to imagine, but I'm just really proud," said Kovalev, who joined Sergei Fedorov and Alexander Mogilny as Russian players to reach that milestone. "I just checked and there are like 20 text messages from my all my friends and family.
It's a good achievement, I just don't know how to describe it."
The game against the Kings saw the Senators trailing 2-1 as they tried hard to score and level the match and then eventually go the winner. Milan Michalek scored in the right at the end of the 2nd period to level the score with Kovalev scoring
the opener. Later, Spezza scored in the 12th minute if the final period to win the match.
Talking about the goal he scored Spezza said, "They had a long shift out there and I had good speed wide and I got the goalie to bite a little bit," Spezza said.
Both the teams are tied in terms of points with 21. The Ottawa Senators have played 21 games, winning 11 games and losing 10. On the other hand the Dallas Stars have play 19 games winning 11 games and losing 8 games.
The Dallas Stars main concern coming into the game will be their consistency. If we talk about the past 13 games of the Dallas Stars then we have a 3 games losing streak, then a three games winning streak. After which there were wins and losses and then
two games winning streak and then losing the final couple of games recently.
The most recent game against the Toronto Maple Leafs saw the Dallas Stars pile up attacks after attacks during which they were successful in scoring and cut the lead to 1 goal but the Toronto Maple Leafs scored once again to win the match 3-1.
The star player or the difference maker ahead of the match could undoubtedly be Brad Richards who has scored 4 goals thus far and is looking in good shape ahead of the match. For the Ottawa Senators their Captain Daniel Alfredsson enters the match scoring
points in each of the last three games he has played.
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