In Dallas, the Columbus Blue Jackets skated off with a 4-1 win over the Stars in a Saturday matinee. 
The Stars have lost four straight.
“It’s hard to win with one goal,” Stars forward Radek Faksa said. “Sometimes it’s like that for a few games, then you get a few goals and they keep coming again. It happens to every team in [a] season — have a little tough stretch of games — and that’s what’s happening to us a little bit right now. We didn’t play bad, but the overtimes and shootout losses didn’t help us.”
Columbus took a 1-0 lead in the first period on a strike by Liam Foudy .
“I felt like I was playing some pretty good games lately and our line (with Roslovic and Emil Bemstrom) was playing well,” Foudy said. “And the team, we’re having some close games lately and winning some. Obviously, getting that goal is big for my self-confidence.”
Ty Dellandrea scored in the middle frame to get the Stars even, 1-1, headed to the third period.
“We didn’t have it tonight,” Dellandrea said. “I think effort, executing our game plan just wasn’t good enough. It’s unacceptable this time of year, and with the standings, we have to win those games.”
The Stars dropped to 30-15-12.
“You’re going to have to find ways to overcome,” Dallas coach Peter DeBoer said. “You’re going to have to find a way to overcome [a] back to back, a tough schedule, and some travel, and an early start, and a couple of overturned goals. We’ve got to find a way to overcome those things.”
In the third, Adam Boqvist and Mathieu Olivier scored for the Blue Jackets to give them a 3-1 lead.
“We’ve got to grow as a team, right? We’ve got a young team,” Olivier said. “Obviously, this season we’ve had some really bad bounces with injuries, guys in and out of the lineup. We’re all just trying to take advantage of the opportunity here for us. We’ve got a ton of stuff to prove, so every game is important to us at this point.”
Columbus moved to 18-34-4.
“It was a good game,” Blue Jackets coach Brad Larsen said. “Obviously we got the offside call and then the goalie interference call, which helped. What I liked really was, when they came in the last 10 minutes of the second period, how we played. We got the momentum back on our side, which I thought was real important going into the third.”
At 18:40 of the third, Columbus’ Eric Robinson was awarded a goal after being hooked down by Dallas’ Miro Heiskanen with the Dallas’ net empty for an extra skater.
Scott Wedgewood made 33 saves in the Dallas loss.
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