The Boston Bruins face the Dallas Stars Tuesday at American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas. Puck drop is set for 7:30 p.m. ET.

Despite longtime NHL insider Elliotte Friedman’s report that Boston was in the “driver’s seat” in trade talks for the veteran right-shot defenseman, the Flames ultimately opted to ship Andersson to Vegas.

The Bruins are firmly not on the northeast tonight, instead hanging out in Texas to face the Dallas Stars. The Bruins are on a hot streak, coming in at 8-1-1 in their last ten. The Stars have lost three in a row and have been skidding since before Christmas. Still, they’re a good team and represent another good test for the B’s.

The NHL had an unusually large 10-game slate on Monday for the holiday, and they’re right back at it with eight games on the docket on Tuesday night. There are

CHICAGO – Mason Lohrei, celebrating his 25th birthday, scored two goals to help the Boston Bruins win their sixth straight game, 5-2 against the Chicago Blackhawks at United Center on Saturday. It was the defenseman’s first multigoal game in the NHL.

The Boston Bruins missed out on both of their heavily-rumored trade targets, in Rasmus Andersson and Kiefer Sherwood.