Dallas at Florida

The Dallas Stars have plenty of motivation for this matchup with the Florida Panthers. They'll be facing a former player making his season debut due to odd circumstances. Dan Ellis will start in goal for the Panthers. Florida has little choice but to call up Ellis because of injuries to Roberto Luongo and Al Montoya that proved to be costly in Tuesday's 3-2 home loss to Toronto. Florida considered inserting goalie coach Robb Tallas or forward Derek MacKenzie between the pipes! Dallas is 4-1 against the Eastern Conference, including the last game, a 3-2 overtime victory over the New York Islanders as a dog. Dallas has an injury to its top offensive player and is on a 2-0 run UNDER the total, while Florida is a bad offensive team (#25 in goals scored, #26 on the power play). Florida is 19-42 against the Western Conference, plus 74-35-15 UNDER the total against the West. And when these teams meet the road team is 6-2, plus the UNDER is 8-1-2. Take Dallas and play the UNDER.