Chicago Blackhawks Fall To Stars: 5 Things We Learned

"Everything he shoots goes in", Stars coach Lindy Ruff said of Spezza. Lehtonen denied a deadly chance from Artem Anisimov before Jamie Benn lobbed a Gossamer Saucer (™ Daryl "Razor" Reaugh) to Cody Eakin for a gorgeous short-handed near-miss. Antoine Roussel and Ales Hemsky also netted for the Stars. "I have a lot of respect for that organization, but I'm happy to be here".

Jim Nill, in the case of the Dallas Stars, would be the father, and at this point people should probably give him the benefit of the doubt for the decisions that he makes. He is solid on face-offs, and he is a relentless checker. Dal 8-12-11-31. Power plays-Chi 0 of 5; Dal 2 of 6. Shattenkirk made it a two-goal game with a 60-foot slap shot from just inside the blue line in the final minute of the period.

It was all a part of the plan for the Stars to defend better as a team. They're not pretty all the time, and I'll take what I can get.

DALLAS (AP) - Jason Spezza has been carrying some extra weight recently while Dallas Stars teammates Tyler Seguin and Jamie Benn went through uncharacteristic goal droughts - six games for Seguin and seven for Benn.

"With everything we've gone through, we wake up [Saturday] morning in a hockey game for first place", Hitchcock said after the win Friday. Seguin's six games without a goal were his most since he went 12 games in January of 2014. Chicago's Fleischmann also had a goal and an assist.

This game is part of great sort of round-robin in the Central. The Stars success this season is largely them do to being the highest scoring team in the National Hockey League (goals per game) helped by their 4th ranked power play and putting the 3rd most shots per game on their opposing goalies.

It's an intense little stretch for all of the teams.

"We ran into a team that was sitting there ready for us", Toews said. The last thing that they needed was another injury. Detroit had its goalie pulled at the time, and the Rangers twice came within inches of scoring into the empty net. "The way their goaltender has been playing and their penalty killing has been excellent, so we have our hands full". The team announced during the game that Klingberg would not return, and he has not played since.

A previous version of this story wrongly stated Dallas was three points ahead of St. Louis. "We know it's going to go right down to the wire for the division". Jake Allen stopped 34 of 38 shots for the blues. He is 3-1-0 in his career against Dallas with a 1.42 GAA and. The Coyotes are 2-8-1 in their past 11 games. 856 save percentage in that span. Coming in to the playoffs injured, burnt out, and/or flat is not a good way to start the "second season, ' and is a big reason the team hasn't had any success in the postseason for so long".

By the way, tonight's game is an 8 p.m. start because the Mavs played today. Stars D Jordie Benn (lower body), D Jason Demers (shoulder), C Mattias Janmark, D John Klingberg (lower body), C Colton Sceviour and LW Patrick Sharp were scratched. Sharp looks like the closest. "I've been really impressed so far".