In Dallas, Ben Bishop made 26 saves for the Stars in a 2-0 win over the visiting New Jersey Devils on Tuesday night.
“It’s nice,” Bishop said. “We’ve gotten pretty close this year and the guys have been playing great all season. The goalie kind of gets the reward, but it’s a team effort. It’s nice to get that one and hopefully we can pile on some more.”
Radek Faksa and Joe Pavelski struck in the fist period to give Bishop all the offense he would need.
“We’re all here to win games and contribute,” Pavelski said. “When you get opportunities like we have, you have to contribute in certain ways. Every night is a little different, but if you get a chance and get your look, you have to finish. It just helps with everything.”
The Devils have lost six straight with an 0-5-1 record.
“We weren’t good enough,” the Devils’ Andy Greene said. “Our execution was pretty much nothing going right. You saw that in the first two [periods], and then I thought we played really well. We started to skate and started to manage the puck a little bit. We created chances.”
The Devils have been outscored 24-9 in the skid.
“I think we were bad on both sides of the puck with breakdowns,” New Jersey’s Kyle Palmieri said. “We gave them every chance outside of our goaltending tonight. It was just a bad back end.”
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Mackenzie Blackwood made 33 saves in the loss.
“At the end of the day, if you don’t put in the effort, it doesn’t matter what game plan you have looking into that night,” Devils head coach Alain Nasreddine said. “In the first 40 minutes, the effort wasn’t there, the work ethic wasn’t there, the compete wasn’t there. It doesn’t matter who you play, you aren’t going to generate points.”
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