Lightning vs. Stars Prediction, Odds & Stats - January 18, 2026

Scoreboard	1	2	3	Odds
Tampa Bay Lightning 50-26-4-2	1	2	1	+6
Dallas Stars 50-20-8-4	1	0	0	-120

Date	Result	Competition
04/26/26	Tampa Bay Lightning TB ( 50-26-4-2 ) Montreal Canadiens MON ( 48-24-5-5 ) 3 - 2	Atlantic
04/25/26	Dallas Stars DAL ( 50-20-8-4 ) Minnesota Wild MIN ( 46-24-7-5 ) 2 - 3	Central
04/24/26	Tampa Bay Lightning TB ( 50-26-4-2 ) Montreal Canadiens MON ( 48-24-5-5 ) 2 - 3	Atlantic
04/22/26	Dallas Stars DAL ( 50-20-8-4 ) Minnesota Wild MIN ( 46-24-7-5 ) 4 - 3	Central
04/21/26	Montreal Canadiens MON ( 48-24-5-5 ) Tampa Bay Lightning TB ( 50-26-4-2 ) 2 - 3	Atlantic
04/20/26	Minnesota Wild MIN ( 46-24-7-5 ) Dallas Stars DAL ( 50-20-8-4 ) 2 - 4	Central
04/19/26	Montreal Canadiens MON ( 48-24-5-5 ) Tampa Bay Lightning TB ( 50-26-4-2 ) 4 - 3	Atlantic
04/18/26	Minnesota Wild MIN ( 46-24-7-5 ) Dallas Stars DAL ( 50-20-8-4 ) 6 - 1	Central
04/15/26	NY Rangers Rangers NYR ( 34-39-8-1 ) Tampa Bay Lightning TB ( 50-26-4-2 ) 4 - 2	Metropolitan
04/15/26	Dallas Stars DAL ( 50-20-8-4 ) Buffalo Sabres BUF ( 50-23-8-1 ) 3 - 3	Central
04/13/26	Dallas Stars DAL ( 50-20-8-4 ) Toronto Maple Leafs TOR ( 32-36-10-4 ) 6 - 5	Central
04/13/26	Detroit Red Wings DET ( 41-31-6-4 ) Tampa Bay Lightning TB ( 50-26-4-2 ) 3 - 4	Atlantic

Team	Puckline	Moneyline	Over / Under
Tampa Bay Lightning TB	-1.5 0	0	U+60
Dallas Stars DAL	+1.5 0	0	O+60

time	fav	line	total
Opening 17 Jan 4:58pm	TB		O +6 -115
Closing 18 Jan 9:23pm	TB		U +5.5 -295

Nikita Kucherov Right Wing Dallas	130	Points	96	Jason Robertson Left Wing Tampa Bay
Nikita Kucherov Right Wing Dallas	43	+ / -	30	Esa Lindell Defense Tampa Bay
Jason Robertson Left Wing Tampa Bay	294	Shots	231	Nikita Kucherov Right Wing Dallas
Charle-Edouard D'Astous Defense Dallas	112	Penalty Mins	93	Mikko Rantanen Right Wing Tampa Bay
Andrei Vasilevskiy Goaltender Dallas	39	Wins	35	Jake Oettinger Goaltender Tampa Bay
Casey DeSmith Goaltender Tampa Bay	2.4	GAA	2.3	Andrei Vasilevskiy Goaltender Dallas

Matt Duchene Center Tampa Bay	7	Points	7	Jake Guentzel Left Wing Dallas
Anthony Cirelli Center Dallas	6	+ / -	1	Nils Lundkvist Defense Tampa Bay
Jason Robertson Left Wing Tampa Bay	23	Shots	14	Nikita Kucherov Right Wing Dallas
Brandon Hagel Left Wing Dallas	13	Penalty Mins	10	Mikko Rantanen Right Wing Tampa Bay
Jake Oettinger Goaltender Tampa Bay	2	Wins	2	Andrei Vasilevskiy Goaltender Dallas
Jake Oettinger Goaltender Tampa Bay	2.7	GAA	2.6	Andrei Vasilevskiy Goaltender Dallas

team	win	loss	last 10	w/l streak	ats	money	home	away	total
Tampa Bay Lightning Tampa Bay Lightning	29	13	5-5-0	1L	22-24	490	12-9-0	17-4-2-2	20-20-6
Dallas Stars Dallas Stars	27	12	7-2-1	5W	20-28	-580	12-6-2-1	15-6-4-2	23-22-3

date	home-away	ats	o/u	DAL:Shots	DAL:Goals	DAL:Assists	TB:Shots	TB:Goals	TB:Assists
01/18/2026	DAL 1 - TB 4	TB	Under 6	20	1	2	26	4	8
10/30/2025	TB 2 - DAL 1	TB	Under 6	21	1	2	33	2	2
03/20/2025	DAL 2 - TB 2	DAL	Under 6	38	2	4	24	2	4
11/23/2024	TB 2 - DAL 4	DAL	Under 6	28	4	6	29	2	4
12/04/2023	TB 4 - DAL 0	TB	Under 6.5	25	0	0	23	4	4
12/02/2023	DAL 8 - TB 1	DAL	Over 6	33	1	1	34	8	15
02/11/2023	DAL 1 - TB 3	TB	Under 6	31	3	6	29	1	0
11/15/2022	TB 5 - DAL 4	TB	Over 6	32	4	6	38	5	10
04/12/2022	DAL 1 - TB 0	DAL	Under 6	25	0	0	29	1	2
01/15/2022	TB 3 - DAL 1	TB	Under 5.5	20	1	1	29	3	6
05/07/2021	TB 2 - DAL 5	DAL	Over 5.5	31	5	8	27	2	4
05/05/2021	TB 6 - DAL 2	TB	Over 5	22	2	4	20	6	9
04/29/2021	TB 3 - DAL 0	TB	Under 5.5	20	0	0	28	3	0
03/25/2021	DAL 4 - TB 3	DAL	Over 5	27	3	6	41	4	7
03/23/2021	DAL 1 - TB 2	TB	Under 5	26	2	2	17	1	2
03/16/2021	DAL 3 - TB 3	DAL	Over 5.5	36	3	6	27	3	6
03/02/2021	DAL 0 - TB 2	TB	Under 5	19	2	3	28	0	0
02/27/2021	TB 5 - DAL 0	TB	Under 5.5	20	0	0	21	5	7
09/28/2020	DAL 0 - TB 2	TB	Under 5	29	2	4	22	0	0
09/26/2020	TB 2 - DAL 3 (OT)	DAL	Under 5	33	3	6	41	2	3

date	score	ats	o/u	Shots	Goals	Assists
04/26/2026	MON 2 - TB 3	W	Under 6	20	3	6
04/24/2026	MON 3 - TB 2	L	Under 6	17	2	2
04/21/2026	TB 3 - MON 2	W	Under 6	27	2	4
04/19/2026	TB 3 - MON 4 (OT)	L	Over 6	19	4	8
04/15/2026	TB 2 - NYR 4	L	Under 6.5	21	4	8
04/13/2026	TB 4 - DET 3	W	Over 6.5	30	3	5
04/11/2026	BOS 1 - TB 2	W	Under 6	24	2	4
04/09/2026	MON 2 - TB 1	L	Under 6.5	18	1	2
04/07/2026	OTT 6 - TB 2	L	Over 6.5	30	2	4
04/06/2026	BUF 4 - TB 2	L	Under 6.5	25	2	4

date	score	ats	o/u	Shots	Goals	Assists
04/25/2026	MIN 3 - DAL 2	L	Under 6	43	3	6
04/22/2026	MIN 3 - DAL 4 (OT)	W	Over 6	31	3	5
04/20/2026	DAL 4 - MIN 2	W	Under 6	32	4	8
04/18/2026	DAL 1 - MIN 6	L	Over 6	28	1	2
04/15/2026	BUF 3 - DAL 3	L	Under 6	24	3	5
04/13/2026	TOR 5 - DAL 6	W	Over 6.5	27	5	8
04/11/2026	DAL 2 - NYR 0	W	Under 6	19	2	4
04/09/2026	DAL 5 - MIN 4	W	Over 6	20	5	8
04/07/2026	DAL 4 - CAL 3	W	Over 6	25	4	7
04/04/2026	DAL 0 - COL 2	L	Under 6	17	0	0

Tampa Bay Lightning TB Dallas Stars DAL

avg	rank	edge in	rank	avg
2.8	7	Goals Per Game	7	2.8
2.8	5	Goals Against Per Game	8	3.5
23.5	13	Shots Per Game	1	35.3
23.3	1	Shots Against Per Game	11	33.5
11.7	5	Shooting %	13	7.8
11.8	12	Opponent Shooting %	8	10.4
0.25	7	Shot Differential Per Game	6	1.75
11.7	5	Scoring Efficiency Ratio	13	7.8
.880	6	Save %	4	.900
.880	3	Opponent Save %	7	.920
17.8	6	Penalty Minutes Per Game	9	12.0
1	4	Power Play Goals Per Game	1	2
1.25	7	Power Play Goals Against Per Game	5	0.75
20.0	5	Power Play %	2	42.1
73.7	12	Penalty Kill %	7	84.2
1.75	8	Blocks To Shots On Goal Ratio	7	1.81

offence

Tampa Bay Lightning TB

	Season stats	rank
Goals	3.49	4
Shots	28.11	14
Power Play (%)	21	15
Faceoff (%)	47	29
Penalty Mins	1207	1

Dallas Stars DAL

	Season stats	rank
Goals	3.33	9
Shots	25.29	30
Power Play (%)	29	2
Faceoff (%)	52	7
Penalty Mins	703	17

defence

Tampa Bay Lightning TB

	Season stats	rank
Goals	3.49	4
Shots	28.11	14
Power Play (%)	21	15
Faceoff (%)	47	29
Penalty Mins	1207	1

Dallas Stars DAL

	Season stats	rank
Goals	3.33	9
Shots	25.29	30
Power Play (%)	29	2
Faceoff (%)	52	7
Penalty Mins	703	17

Tampa Bay Lightning TB

player (position)	status		ats*current	o/u*	notes
Pontus Holmberg (RW)	Ques Tues	Upper Body - 22 / 04 / 26	0-0	0-0	Details
Charle-Edouard D'Astous (D)	Ques Tues	Undisclosed - 20 / 04 / 26	0-0	0-0	Details
Zemgus Girgensons (LW)	Ques Mon	Undisclosed - 11 / 04 / 26	0-0	0-0	Details
Darren Raddysh (D)	Ques Wed	Undisclosed - 11 / 04 / 26	0-0	0-0	Details
Brandon Hagel (LW)	Ques Sat	Lower Body - 09 / 04 / 26	0-0	0-0	Details
Scott Sabourin (RW)	Ques Mon	Undisclosed - 01 / 04 / 26	0-0	0-0	Details
Brandon Hagel (LW)	Ques Tues	Undisclosed - 01 / 04 / 26	0-0	0-0	Details
Nikita Kucherov (RW)	Ques Tues	Illness - 29 / 03 / 26	0-0	0-0	Details
Victor Hedman (D)	Out indefinitely	Personal - 20 / 03 / 26	0-0	0-0	Details
Zemgus Girgensons (LW)	Ques Tues	Undisclosed - 16 / 03 / 26	0-0	0-0	Details

Dallas Stars DAL

player (position)	status		ats*current	o/u*	notes
Nils Lundkvist (D)	Ques Tues	Upper Body - 26 / 04 / 26	0-0	0-0	Details
Miro Heiskanen (D)	Ques Sat	Lower Body - 10 / 04 / 26	0-0	0-0	Details
Nils Lundkvist (D)	Ques Wed	Illness - 09 / 04 / 26	0-0	0-0	Details
Tyler Myers (D)	Ques Tues	Undisclosed - 31 / 03 / 26	0-0	0-0	Details
Michael Bunting (LW)	Ques Mon	Lower Body - 30 / 03 / 26	0-0	0-0	Details
Nathan Bastian (RW)	Out indefinitely	Hand - 28 / 03 / 26	0-0	0-0	Details
Sam Steel (C)	Out indefinitely	Undisclosed - 26 / 03 / 26	0-0	0-0	Details
Roope Hintz (C)	out for season	Lower Body - 07 / 03 / 26	0-0	0-0	Details
Roope Hintz (C)	Out indefinitely	Illness - 23 / 02 / 26	0-0	0-0	Details
Mikko Rantanen (RW)	Out indefinitely	Lower Body - 23 / 02 / 26	0-0	0-0	Details

Tampa Bay Lightning TB

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Dallas Stars DAL

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Tampa Bay Lightning TB

Over is 5-2 in Lightning last 7 games as a road underdog of +201 or greater.

Over is 3-1-2 in Lightning last 6 Sunday games.

Lightning are 51-15 in their last 66 games as a road favorite of -151 to -200.

Lightning are 2-5 in their last 7 after scoring 2 goals or less in their previous game.

Over is 5-2-1 in Lightning last 8 games as a favorite.

Dallas Stars DAL

Under is 7-1 in Stars last 8 home games vs. a team with a road winning % of greater than .600.

Stars are 6-2 in their last 8 games as an underdog of +201 or greater.

Under is 15-7-2 in Stars last 24 games as a home favorite of -151 to -200.

Stars are 26-12 in their last 38 games playing on 2 days rest.

Stars are 4-1 in their last 5 home games vs. a team with a road winning % of greater than .600.

Team	Win / Loss	ATS	OU
Carolina Hurricanes CAR	53-22	30-43	37-31-5
Buffalo Sabres BUF	50-23	49-26	39-34-2
Tampa Bay Lightning TB	50-26	41-33	42-28-4
Montreal Canadiens MON	48-24	41-33	42-28-4
Boston Bruins BOS	45-27	49-26	39-34-2
Ottawa Senators OTT	44-27	30-43	37-31-5
Pittsburgh Penguins PIT	41-25	48-28	37-33-6
Philadelphia Flyers PHI	43-27	48-28	37-33-6
Washington Capitals WAS	43-30	39-33	34-31-7
Detroit Red Wings DET	41-31	38-34	34-30-8
Columbus Blue Jackets CLB	40-30	39-33	34-31-7
NY Islanders Islanders NYI	43-34	27-42	37-27-5
New Jersey Devils NJ	42-37	28-44	31-37-4
Florida Panthers FLA	40-38	38-34	34-30-8
Toronto Maple Leafs TOR	32-36	30-41	40-23-8
NY Rangers Rangers NYR	34-39	35-35	30-38-2

Team	Win / Loss	ATS	OU
Colorado Avalanche COL	55-16	25-49	31-41-2
Dallas Stars DAL	50-20	30-46	38-34-4
Minnesota Wild MIN	46-24	39-37	42-29-5
Vegas Golden Knights VEG	39-26	33-40	36-32-5
Edmonton Oilers EDM	41-30	34-42	43-27-6
Utah Mammoth UTAH	43-33	33-40	36-32-5
Anaheim Ducks ANA	43-33	34-42	43-27-6
Los Angeles Kings LA	35-27	25-49	31-41-2
San Jose Sharks SJ	39-35	45-29	34-31-9
St. Louis Blues STL	37-33	37-33	31-35-4
Nashville Predators NAS	38-34	31-41	39-27-6
Winnipeg Jets WIN	35-35	45-29	34-31-9
Seattle Kraken SEA	34-37	44-27	29-35-7
Calgary Flames CAL	34-39	23-48	31-38-2
Chicago Blackhawks CHI	29-39	45-28	33-31-9
Vancouver Canucks VAN	25-49	31-40	39-25-7

Tampa Bay Lightning

Pitchers

POS	Player

Hitters

POS	Player

Dallas Stars

Pitchers

POS	Player

Hitters

POS	Player

Game Statistics

Shots

15.4

5.0

Shooting %

Penalties

Penalty Minutes

Power Plays

Goals

Team	Last 5 Matches
Tampa Bay Lightning TB ( 50-26-4-2 )	W L W L L
Dallas Stars DAL ( 50-20-8-4 )	W W L W W

04/29/26

12:00 pm ET

Montreal Canadiens MON ( 48-24-5-5 )

Tampa Bay Lightning TB ( 50-26-4-2 )

vs
Matchup

04/28/26

8:00 pm ET

Minnesota Wild MIN ( 46-24-7-5 )

Dallas Stars DAL ( 50-20-8-4 )

vs
Matchup

Nikita Kucherov Right Wing Dallas	130	Points	96	Jason Robertson Left Wing Tampa Bay
Nikita Kucherov Right Wing Dallas	43	+ / -	30	Esa Lindell Defense Tampa Bay
Jason Robertson Left Wing Tampa Bay	294	Shots	231	Nikita Kucherov Right Wing Dallas
Charle-Edouard D'Astous Defense Dallas	112	Penalty Mins	93	Mikko Rantanen Right Wing Tampa Bay
Andrei Vasilevskiy Goaltender Dallas	39	Wins	35	Jake Oettinger Goaltender Tampa Bay
Casey DeSmith Goaltender Tampa Bay	2.4	GAA	2.3	Andrei Vasilevskiy Goaltender Dallas

Matt Duchene Center Tampa Bay	7	Points	7	Jake Guentzel Left Wing Dallas
Anthony Cirelli Center Dallas	6	+ / -	1	Nils Lundkvist Defense Tampa Bay
Jason Robertson Left Wing Tampa Bay	23	Shots	14	Nikita Kucherov Right Wing Dallas
Brandon Hagel Left Wing Dallas	13	Penalty Mins	10	Mikko Rantanen Right Wing Tampa Bay
Jake Oettinger Goaltender Tampa Bay	2	Wins	2	Andrei Vasilevskiy Goaltender Dallas
Jake Oettinger Goaltender Tampa Bay	2.7	GAA	2.6	Andrei Vasilevskiy Goaltender Dallas

nhl Standings Complete TB Standings

Team	Win / Loss	ATS	OU
Carolina Hurricanes CAR	53-22	30-43	37-31-5
Buffalo Sabres BUF	50-23	49-26	39-34-2
Tampa Bay Lightning TB	50-26	41-33	42-28-4
Montreal Canadiens MON	48-24	41-33	42-28-4
Boston Bruins BOS	45-27	49-26	39-34-2
Ottawa Senators OTT	44-27	30-43	37-31-5
Pittsburgh Penguins PIT	41-25	48-28	37-33-6
Philadelphia Flyers PHI	43-27	48-28	37-33-6
Washington Capitals WAS	43-30	39-33	34-31-7
Detroit Red Wings DET	41-31	38-34	34-30-8
Columbus Blue Jackets CLB	40-30	39-33	34-31-7
NY Islanders Islanders NYI	43-34	27-42	37-27-5
New Jersey Devils NJ	42-37	28-44	31-37-4
Florida Panthers FLA	40-38	38-34	34-30-8
Toronto Maple Leafs TOR	32-36	30-41	40-23-8
NY Rangers Rangers NYR	34-39	35-35	30-38-2

Team	Win / Loss	ATS	OU
Colorado Avalanche COL	55-16	25-49	31-41-2
Dallas Stars DAL	50-20	30-46	38-34-4
Minnesota Wild MIN	46-24	39-37	42-29-5
Vegas Golden Knights VEG	39-26	33-40	36-32-5
Edmonton Oilers EDM	41-30	34-42	43-27-6
Utah Mammoth UTAH	43-33	33-40	36-32-5
Anaheim Ducks ANA	43-33	34-42	43-27-6
Los Angeles Kings LA	35-27	25-49	31-41-2
San Jose Sharks SJ	39-35	45-29	34-31-9
St. Louis Blues STL	37-33	37-33	31-35-4
Nashville Predators NAS	38-34	31-41	39-27-6
Winnipeg Jets WIN	35-35	45-29	34-31-9
Seattle Kraken SEA	34-37	44-27	29-35-7
Calgary Flames CAL	34-39	23-48	31-38-2
Chicago Blackhawks CHI	29-39	45-28	33-31-9
Vancouver Canucks VAN	25-49	31-40	39-25-7