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(SportsNetwork.com) - The Dallas Stars look to win a season-high fourth consecutive game on Sunday evening as they visit the reeling Edmonton Oilers. The Stars took two of three at home before embarking on a three-game swing, capping the homestand with a victory over New Jersey prior to road wins over Vancouver and Calgary. That gave Dallas its first three-game win streak since Nov. 20-25, a run that included a win over Edmonton. Kari Lehtonen has reached excellent form on this road trip, posting a 27-save shutout to beat the Canucks before turning aside 21 of the 22 shots he faced in Fridays 2-1 win over the Calgary Flames. Lehtonen has won four of his past five starts, giving up a goal or fewer in three of those games. I felt good, and the guys played very well in front of me, Lehtonen told his teams website after the win over the Flames. The first period maybe wasnt our best, but after that it was really solid. We didnt give them too much. Jamie Benn and Trevor Daley scored second-period goals on Friday, with Cody Eakin assisting on each tally. Tyler Seguin added an assist for his 39th point of the campaign, tied for second most in the NHL. Seguin also tops the league with 23 goals. Defenseman Jordie Benn missed the game with flu-like symptoms, while forward Ryan Garbutt is eligible to return tonight from a three-game suspension he received for slew-footing Winnipegs Dustin Byfuglien in a loss on Dec. 9. Lehtonen, meanwhile, may have earned another start tonight and is 12-3-1 lifetime versus the Oilers with a 2.05 goals against average and .932 save percentage. The Stars netminder made 35 saves in a 3-2 home win over the Oilers on Nov. 25, the first of three meetings between the clubs this season. Seguin scored twice in Dallas 14th victory in its past 17 versus Edmonton. The Stars also have won five in a row in Edmonton. Boyd Gordon and Taylor Hall scored in defeat, while Viktor Fasth made 30 saves in the loss. Fasth is 2-2-0 with a 1.94 GAA and .926 save percentage in five career meetings versus Dallas, including four starts, with a shutout. Fellow Oilers goaltender Ben Scrivens allowed three goals on 32 shots in a loss the only time he faced the Stars. Scrivens came up with 26 saves in a 4-3 loss to San Jose on Thursday, with the Sharks going ahead in the third period thanks to a pair of goals only 34 seconds apart. Weve struggled to win games all season and tonight is a prime example of that, said Gordon, who returned after missing five in a row with a back injury. We have to find a way to hold on. Gordon, Steven Pinizzotto and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins scored for the Oilers, who have lost six straight and 17 of their last 18. Sunday will make Edmontons third game since firing Dallas Eakins as head coach and replacing him on an interim basis with Todd Nelson. Custom Nike Minnesota Twins Jerseys . 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He played with Class AA Binghamton of the Eastern League in the New York Mets system last season.Was it a catch? I say yes. The way I saw it, Dez Bryant made a football move and maintained control of the ball long enough that at the very least he recovered his own fumble. After seeing the replay over and over and over, what happens is you rationalize your initial thoughts away and look at it from the point of view of the referee. The official saw Bryant lose control of the ball as the ball in his view hit the ground and therefore ruled no catch, saying the ground helped the receiver maintain control of the ball. I saw Bryants forearm in between the ball and the ground and therefore consider it a good catch. I do know by rule many say the refs got it right, when you specifically look at the words and read it slowly as I did. And maybe there is part of me that just didnt want to see a great play taken away, and maybe a part of the refs call was that he did not see the ball was secure at all times. Its open to observant speculation and opinion but I thought it was a catch. How Green Bay won the game was amazing since Aaron Rodgers was much more physically limited than I think most people anticipated. Seattle is going to benefit from watching him hop around on one leg like he did in the Dallas game because unless he heals remarkably well over the next six days he is a stationary target. It completely changes the way Seattle approaches the game defensively and what would be an immensely competitive game is now an opportunity for Seattle. The hidden hero of the Dallas game was John Kuhn, Packers fullback. When I watch a running play I rarely actually watch the running back. I kind of watch the entire line of scrimmage to see where the point of attack is to be and how the blocking pattern flows to create that point. Then you notice if there is a lead back moving into the line of scrimmage as the point of attack blocker. Kuhn had 10 great run blocks in the game, either in terms of sustaining contact or moving people back and creating space. At one point at the game Sean Lee came to mind, the Cowboys middle linebacker who was injured in Mini-camp in June and is out for the year. One of his greatest skills is taking on fullbacks, disengaging and making the play. What happened back in June effected Dallas here in January. For a team that played so well for so long this will take a while to re-group, especially with free agency pending. In Green Bay its time to move on to next week and I will be interested to see how Mike McCarthy prepares for this one in the same place where his team opened the regular season with a 36-16 loss. In Denver the Colts are on the rise, while the Broncos are fading. The loss by Dallas was so tragic because they were playing so well, while the loss by Denver was so difficult because they spend so much money on players. Where do you go from here? There will be a lot of discussion on Peyton Manning because he did not play well and did not look good. And I think those aare two different aspects of evaluation.dddddddddddd Not playing well is obvious and the video you study shows the reasons why. Not looking good is different. Denver did not look good. As a football team they were not energetic and Indianapolis looked good and had energy. Age and football dont mix. It is a terrible feeling when your mind says yes but you body does not respond to the yes command. It happens. Now the truth is that Manning in an off-game is better than 75 per cent of other NFL quarterbacks and Denver has no one I know behind him as a quality player. The job is his. This is a tough one for Manning as an older athlete - can he regain youth or should he resign to the reality of age? In the off-season, after about a month players go through a massive rejuvenation. Your body comes back, youre not tired, there is no pressure as with the new NFL agreement you cant have work contact with coaches. You bounce back in a big way from the inside out. Your passion for football comes back. That is what will happen to Manning and he will be back - especially if he sees Tom Brady win the Super Bowl again. Next year is the 50th Super Bowl in San Francisco, and its too tempting not to try. And speaking of Brady did you see him lose it against Baltimore in the first half? And did you see him get it back together in the second? Often you hear about halftime adjustments, and often its tough to determine with precision what they were. Sometimes there are none. But Josh McDaniels completely abandoned any run game and deep ball game and took five-yard passes over and over that turned into first down after first down. Sometimes the toughest thing to adjust to is to accept that you cant do something so dont even try - just move on to something else. That is coaching humility and the Patriots have it. Twice, the Ravens had a 14-point lead and could not put New England away. The win over Baltimore was as good of a win for New England as they have had in a long time. As the immensely repetitive statement says, find a way to win. New England did by throwing everything underneath, then hitting the home run to Brandon Lafell and using Julian Edelman as a quarterback to Danny Amendola at just the right time. In Seattle, Carolina surprised me. They played hard and given a different play or two it could have been a huge upset for the Panthers. Seattle will be tough to stop because they dissolved the rust on the machine that is Seahawk football. Sometimes too much time in between games is too much and you sensed that with Seattle. They were playing so well to close out the season and would have been better off with another game than having three off-week practices. Seattle will be razor sharp against Green Bay. After 256 regular season games, eight playoff games, and 32 teams from the beginning...just two games are left with four elite teams. With this any given Sunday on the horizon. ' ' '

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