Projected Lineups for the Stars vs Flames – 3/27/25

The Dallas Stars take on the Calgary Flames at the Scotiabank Saddledome tonight. Here are the projected/expected lineups sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents, and others.

STARS (46-21-4) at FLAMES (34-25-11)

9 p.m. ET; SNW, Victory+

Stars projected lineup

Jason Robertson — Roope Hintz — Mikko Rantanen
Mason Marchment — Matt Duchene — Mikael Granlund
Jamie Benn — Wyatt Johnston — Evgenii Dadonov
Oskar Back — Sam Steel — Colin Blackwell

Thomas Harley — Ilya Lyubushkin
Esa Lindell — Cody Ceci
Lian Bichsel — Matt Dumba

Casey DeSmith
Jake Oettinger

Scratched: Mavrik Bourque, Brendan Smith

Injured: Miro Heiskanen (knee), Nils Lundkvist (shoulder), Tyler Seguin (hip)

Status report:

The Stars did not conduct a morning skate following a 4-3 win at the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday. … DeSmith is likely to start after Oettinger made 41 saves at Edmonton.

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Flames projected lineup

Connor Zary — Nazem Kadri — Martin Pospisil
Jonathan Huberdeau — Morgan Frost — Matt Coronato
Joel Farabee — Mikael Backlund — Blake Coleman
Ryan Lomberg — Kevin Rooney — Adam Klapka

Joel Hanley — MacKenzie Weegar
Kevin Bahl — Rasmus Andersson
Jake Bean — Daniil Miromanov

Dustin Wolf
Dan Vladar

Scratched: Yegor Sharangovich, Dryden Hunt, Brayden Pachal

Injured: None

Status report:

Backlund will return after missing six games because of an upper-body injury; he will replace Sharangovich, a center. … Andersson did not participate in the Flames morning skate, but “Everybody’s available for us tonight,” Calgary coach Ryan Huska said.

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