PREVIEW 5:00 AM CDT

The Dallas Stars will play their first road tilt of the preseason schedule tonight, as they head to San Antonio to take on the Florida Panthers. The teams played each other on Wednesday in Dallas with the Stars winning 3-2 in a shootout.

In Wednesday's game, new Stars captain Jamie Benn and Cody Eakin scored in regulation for Dallas, while Drew Shore and Scottie Upshall countered late in the third period to force overtime. After a scoreless overtime, Alex Chiasson and Benn scored in the shootout to win the game for Dallas. Brad Boyes and Aleksander Barkov were unable to convert their shootout chances on the Florida side.

Tonight's game at the AT&T Center (home of the AHL's San Antonio Rampage, the Panthers' AHL affiliate) starts at 7:30 p.m. CDT. It will be the first NHL exhibition game to be played in the arena’s 10-year history.

However, tonight's game marks third preseason NHL game ever to be played in San Antonio. All have involved the Stars. In September 1994 (prior to the lockout that wiped out the first half of the 1994-95 season) and again the following years, the Dallas Stars played the Los Angeles Kings in back-to-back seasons at the Alamodome.

On Sept. 27, 1994, the Stars defeated the Kings by a 3-2 score in front of 14,342 fans; most of whom came out to see Wayne Gretzky play. The next year, on Sept. 26, 1995, a crowd of 8,122 came out as the Stars beat LA by a 4-2 count.

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