In Dallas, the Ottawa Senators’ Filip Gustavsson made 38 saves in a 4-1 win over the Stars on Friday night. 
“He was seeing everything,” Ottawa head coach D.J. Smith said of Gustavsson. “He made every save he had to make. He made a couple of really big ones in the second when [Dallas] had that big push.”
Josh Norris struck twice in the win.
“I think we’re reading well off each other and, I guess, just keeping it simple,” Norris said. “Playing with [Batherson] for I think my third year around now, you just got to be ready for the puck anytime.”
Joe Pavelski scored Dallas’ lone goal.
“We gave them three goals by terrible plays on our part,” Stars head coach Rick Bowness said. “You can’t give anybody three goals like we did tonight, but we’re generating enough offensive chances to get us back into the game at the right times, but we don’t capitalize.”
Brady Tkachuk and Connor Brown added single markers in the Sens win.
“We had talked how good this team is in the first period and they can jump all over and you’ve got to be willing to play a north-south game,” Smith said. “I thought we really did that in the first. [We] built ourselves a lead. And give them credit, they really pushed back in the end. But having the lead, we were able to hang on.”
Ottawa stopped a three-game skid with the win.
“We got mad in the second period, and we took it to them,” Bowness said. “We took it to them, and we got one goal out of it. They had two shots on net and they get a goal. We had a ton [of shots] and got one [goal].”
Dallas’ Braden Holtby made 20 saves in the loss.
“You’ve got to find ways to score goals in this league and we’ve had some great looks,” Pavelski said. “We’ve had second chances, breakaways, zone time, [shots from defenseman]. It’s not going in right now.”
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