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Tarkki, who could get his first start tonight, was only needed because backup Dan Ellis had suffered a groin injury in practice on Saturday.

 

Dallas has beaten the Ducks twice already this season and has won the last three overall meetings. The Stars, though, have lost five of eight in Anaheim.

 

(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Martin Brodeur and Jarome Iginla figure to both be members of the Hall of Fame following the end of their outstanding NHL careers. But for 2011-12, the goal for the two veterans is simply getting back to the postseason. Iginla's Calgary Flames hope to move up the Western Conference ladder with a seventh straight home victory this evening against the Brodeur-led New Jersey Devils, owners of points in five of their past six.

 

Calgary is hoping to use a four-game homestand to make a move in the West. The Flames opened up the stand with a 3-1 victory over the Wild on Saturday, a win that featured the 500th career goal from Iginla.

 

"That accomplishment is an individual accomplishment, but it's also about him having strong teammates and playing for a first class organization -- a lot of things are involved in it," Flames coach Brent Sutter said of Iginla's 500th goal. "To see a guy score his 500th goal and to see a guy score his first goal, [this game's] got a neat story to it."

 

Curtis Glencross added his team-leading 17th goal of the season -- one more than Iginla -- and Miikka Kiprusoff made 27 saves as Calgary snapped a five- game slide and improved to 11-5-2 as the host this year. That is against just an 8-14-3 mark on the road.

 

Adam Henrique scored New Jersey's league-leading ninth shorthanded goal and Dainius Zubrus lit the lamp on his club's lone power-play chance. The Devils also stopped the Penguins on their two man advantages and are killing off penalties at a 91.2-percent clip.

 

Ilya Kovalchuk and Henrique each ended with a goal and an assist for the Devils, who have won their past two and are 4-1-1 in the last six.

 

New Jersey was bested 5-3 in its last trip to Calgary on March 5, 2010.

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Work left to do: Texas Tech, Oklahoma State, Kansas State

Texas joins Texas A&M and Kansas as locks after getting league win No. 11. Texas Tech greatly helped its own hopes and crippled OK State's with the two-point win Saturday. Is K-State the last reasonable hopeful? Could be an elimination match in Stillwater on Tuesday, at least for the Cowboys.

Work left to do:

Texas Tech [18-11 (7-7), RPI: 44, SOS: 12] A critical two-point win over OK State leaves the Red Raiders with Baylor and at Iowa State left. Get both and the Red Raiders likely are good to go. Get one and there could be some interesting comparisons with a K-State team that could finish two or three games "ahead" of them in the standings but doesn't have any of the quality wins Texas Tech has. Not a lot in nonconference play (against Arkansas in Little Rock being the best win, by far) to lean on.

Oklahoma State [18-9 (5-8), RPI: 50, SOS: 35] Still without a road win, the Cowboys now need to win two on the road just to get to .500 in conference play. It's hard to recall a team (OK, other than Clemson) falling so precipitously from lock status to almost certainly out of the NCAAs at this point. There are wins to be had in the last three, including a very big home game against K-State on Tuesday, but this team is reeling. Can you tell the pressure to win is getting to them with the way the final possession played out at Texas Tech? There are some good nonconference performances to lean on, specifically beating Missouri State and Syracuse on neutral floors and Pitt in OK City, but if the Pokes don't right this very, very soon, that won't be enough.

Kansas State [20-9 (9-5), RPI: 56, SOS: 96] It pays to be in the Big 12 North. The nine league wins are Colorado (twice), Missouri (twice), Iowa State (twice), Baylor, Nebraska and (a good one against) Texas. That helps explain the middling computer profile. The win over USC is nice, but the nonconference leaves a lot to be desired. The game at OK State in Stillwater on Tuesday is huge, as it could KO the Cowboys and leave K-State with a home date against Oklahoma with which to work.