Friday night’s Dallas Stars game highlights

APThe excitement of the Olympics, a budding goaltending controversy and a spirited performance still couldn’t break the Stars’ road woes Thursday night as Dallas lost to the Vancouver Canucks, 4-3.

Stars place right wing Jere Lehtinen (upper body) on injured reserve.

The Dallas Stars’ Alex Auld will get to start Monday against Minnesota, writes Mike Heika. He’s earned that.

Dallas Stars defenseman Nicklas Grossman likely will return for Saturday’s game against the Detroit Red Wings.

Tuesday night’s Dallas Stars game highlights

  The New Jersey Devils had a tough time against the Tampa Bay LIghtning. Twice. The game was started two days before it ended.

JOHN F. RHODES / DMNWhen the Dallas Stars play at Columbus at today (6 p.m., FSSW), it will be the first of six games out of the next eight on the road

JOHN F. RHODES / DMNThere are no bad wins right now for the Dallas Stars, who will take a sloppy 4-3 victory over the New York Islanders Friday night at American Airlines Center.

Getty ImagesAs if the Dallas Stars’ 5-2 loss to the New York Rangers on Wednesday wasn’t bad enough, former Star and noted agitator Sean Avery did most of the damage.