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Get your game notes: Stars at Ducks

Dallas Stars v Anaheim Ducks - Game One

in Game One of the First Round of the 2014 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at Honda Center on April 16, 2014 in Anaheim, California.

Jeff Gross

Tonight on NBCSN, it’s the Anaheim Ducks hosting the Dallas Stars starting at 10 p.m. ET. Following are some game notes, as compiled by the NHL on NBC research team:

• Ducks goalie Frederik Andersen made 32 saves in Game 1 (a 4-3 Anaheim victory). The 6’4” Dane became the youngest goaltender (24 years, 196 days) to appear in a playoff game for Anaheim, and only the fourth Ducks goalie to win his NHL postseason debut for the Ducks, following Guy Hebert (1997), Jean-Sebastien Giguere (2003) and current back-up Jonas Hiller (2009).

• In Game 1, Jamie Benn, making his NHL postseason debut after five seasons and 344 regular-season games, scored the Stars’ first postseason goal since May 19, 2008. Before Benn’s goal, only Edmonton (June 19, 2006) and Winnipeg (Apr. 18, 2007) had gone longer than Dallas without a playoff goal.

• Ducks center Ryan Getzlaf, the NHL’s second-leading scorer during the regular season (87 points) had one goal and one assist in the series opener before leaving the game with 16.3 seconds left after getting hit in the face with a slapshot. (X-rays came up negative, and he is expected to play in Game 2.) The Ducks improved to 15-1 in the playoffs when their captain has at least one goal and one assist. That lone loss came vs. Ottawa in Game 3 of the 2007 Stanley Cup Final, won by Anaheim in five games.

• In Game 1, Ducks winger Teemu Selanne (43 years, 287 days) became the oldest player to appear in a Stanley Cup Playoffs game since Chris Chelios in 2009. The “Finnish Flash” registered a power-play assist on the eventual game-winning goal by Matt Beleskey in the second period. Elias Sports Bureau

• In his first postseason start since Game 3 of the 2007 Eastern Conference Quarterfinals (with the Atlanta Thrashers), Stars goaltender Kari Lehtonen fell to 0-3 in three career postseason starts, with a 5.08 GAA and .861 save%. The Finnish goalie, who led the NHL this season with 65 appearances, has not lost back-to-back starts (regulation or overtime/shootout) since Jan. 18-20. Since that date, he is 6-0-0 in his first start after a loss (personal, not team), with a 2.14 GAA and .919 save%.

• Ducks winger Corey Perry, the NHL’s second-leading goal scorer during the regular season (43 goals), has zero goals in his last 10 playoff games, dating back to the 2011 Western Conference Quarterfinals vs. Nashville. His last postseason goal came in Game 4 (Apr. 20) of that series, when he scored shorthanded on Predators goaltender Pekka Rinne.

• This season, the Ducks ranked 22nd in the NHL in power-play efficiency (16.0%), just ahead of the Stars (23rd, at 15.9%), and tallied goals with the man advantage in only 32 of their 82 games (T-3rd fewest in the league). However, they broke out in Game 1 vs. Dallas, going two-for-five on goals by forwards Mathieu Perreault and Matt Beleskey.