DALLAS — Last season Womens Tom Pyatt Jersey , the Nashville Predators took three of the four meetings against the Dallas Stars, outscoring them 14-7.However, when the teams meet Saturday afternoon at American Airlines Center, it will be their first matchup of the season.“Yeah, they’re good in all facets of the game,” Stars rookie coach Jim Montgomery said of the Predators after practice Friday. “They’ve played together for a while. We’re going to have be physical and we’re going to have to be gritty, and we’re going to have to make it a tough game for them to have any kind of skating room.”Article continues below ...Dallas (9-6-1, 19 points) started its four-game homestand with a 4-3 win over San Jose on Thursday.However, that victory came at a price as standout defenseman John Klingberg was struck in the hand with a shot and after surgery Friday morning will miss at least four weeks.The Stars recalled defenseman Joel Hanley, who has 22 games of NHL experience from stints with Montreal and Arizona, from AHL Texas to help fill the sizable void left by Klingberg’s injury. Montgomery expects big things from Hanley, who played five games for the Coyotes last season.“We really liked him in camp. We love his decision making, he’s got high-end hockey sense and he’s got the feet to be able to break pucks out http://www.senatorsshoponline.com/authentic-zack-smith-jersey ,” Montgomery said of Hanley.Montgomery also said the Stars will again be without defenseman Marc Methot (lower body) and forwards Brett Ritchie (illness), who will miss a fourth consecutive game, and Alexander Radulov (lower body), who is on injured reserve and has played just one of the past 10 games.Dallas is 6-2-0 at home. After going 3-2-1 during its season-long six-game road trip in the Eastern Conference that concluded earlier this week, the Stars are clearly happy to see home for a spell.“It was great to be home last night (Thursday),” Montgomery said. “The crowd was into the game and you could really feel the energy in the building. I think if last night’s game, if we’re on the road and we’re up 3-1 and they came back and tied it, I don’t know if we have that push coming, but I think our fans helped us there.”However, the Stars will face a tough opponent in the Predators (12-3-0, 24 points), who are 7-0-0 on the road this year after a 4-1 win at Colorado on Wednesday.Nashville’s Colton Sissons had a hat trick against Colorado and admits he can’t explain why the Predators have been unbeatable away from home so far this season.“We just stay focused and do our thing,” Sissons said. “I don’t know if being on the road and just thinking hockey helps us. We’ve just been playing confident and playing really sharp on the road so far.”Nashville also sports the NHL’s best goal differential at plus-20 and is currently two games into a five-game road trip. WASHINGTON – The Capitals might get a big piece of their offense back when they host the Detroit Red Wings on Tuesday night.Forward T.J. Oshie hopes to return to the Washington lineup after missing the past 11 games with an upper-body injury.“I’ve been hoping to play for a week Max Jones Jersey Womens , so I’m hoping to play [Tuesday],” Oshie told NHL.com. “We’ll see what the training staff says, see what the doctors say, see what the coaches say, but today was a full [practice]. I passed all the tests I’ve got to pass.”Article continues below ...Oshie took part in a full practice Monday for the first time since he was injured on a hit from Winnipeg Jets defenseman Josh Morrissey on Nov. 14.The Capitals (17-9-3) are atop the Metropolitan Division and returning home after a 2-1 road trip. Coach Todd Reirden said Oshie could play Tuesday, which would provide a boost to the offense overall, but especially the power play.“He’s a special player in all aspects of the game, but certainly on the power play for us and in that diamond spot he does a really good job on the entries in terms of controlled entries,” Reirden told the Washington Post.“When we do have to dump pucks in, he is good at recoveries. His work ethic and instincts to be able to win puck battles, I just think it increases our whole intensity of how our power play recovers pucks.”Oshie has 14 points (nine goals, five assists) in 18 games this season, including one goal and two assists on the power play.Different players have stepped up as the Capitals went 9-2 in Oshie’s absence and Alex Ovechkin has been on a roll. He has 14 points (10 goals Brian Elliott Jersey , four assists) in his past 11 games.Goalie Braden Holtby is 10-2-2 with a 2.11 goals-against average (GAA) and a .924 save percentage against the Red Wings, including the win on Nov. 23 when Washington defeated the visiting Red Wings 3-1.Ovechkin has 13 goals and 10 assists in 24 games against Detroit, including a goal and an assist last month.Capitals forward Tom Wilson will miss his third game in a row Tuesday with an upper-body injury. Reirden told reporters Wilson will hopefully resume skating later this week.Detroit (14-13-4) comes in off a 3-1 home win over the Los Angeles Kings on Monday night.Goalie Jimmy Howard made a season-high 42 saves after sitting out the past two games.“Jimmy Howard is my favorite thing about this game,” Red Wings coach Jeff Blashill told NHL.com. “We weren’t good enough tonight. They outplayed us, and Jimmy gave us a chance to win the game.”Dennis Cholowski, Frans Nielsen and Dylan Larkin scored for Detroit, which has at least a point in five of its past seven games (4-2-1).The Red Wings went ahead 3-0 and held the lead, something they’d been having trouble with of late.“There have been a lot of blown two-goal leads, and one that was three goals, but tonight we did a better job of playing with a lead,” Howard told NHL.com. “We bent, but we didn’t break.”Coach Jeff Blashill declined to say who’ll be in goal against Washington.Howard is 4-3-3 with a 2.82 GAA and a .900 save percentage versus Washington. Jonathan Bernier is 4-5 with a 2.83 GAA and a .894 save percentage against the Capitals. Bernier took the loss in the teams’ first meeting.