In Chicago, Tyler Seguin, and Colin Miller scored in the first period on Tuesday night to give the Dallas Stars a 2-0 lead over the Blackhawks.
That was enough in a 4-1 win for the Stars who climbed into a tie for second in the Central Division.
Jake Oettinger made 17 saves in the Dallas win.
“I thought our execution was good tonight,” Stars coach Peter DeBoer said. “Details were good most of the game. We came in and did what we had to do and got two points. We were coming off a pretty poor effort, so that was a much better effort by us. Everything was much better than it was the last game. We’ve just got to continue with those habits for the last eight games.”
Joe Pavelski pushed the lead to 3-0 in the second period.
“I think, especially early on, we executed well coming out of our end, things we needed to clean up,” Pavelski said. “It felt like there was a lot of good support all over the ice. We got a lead. We played hard. We stayed within ourselves and kind of took what was given for the most part.”
The Stars improved to 40-20-14.
“We were on the inside more often than not,” Pavelski said. “It was a road game where you were able to roll all four lines all night and use everybody. It’s a big part of this team’s identity.”
Chicago dropped to 24-44-6.
“I thought the first period, we just weren’t great,” Chicago coach Luke Richardson said. “We couldn’t string together two passes, just sloppy on our part. When that started like that, we just kind of stopped moving our feet. I think it was by the end of the second period, we had a couple of shifts that finally got us going and gave us a little life for the third period, and we skated a little bit. But obviously it was a little too late by then. That was one of the few games this year we didn’t have the skating legs and we just didn’t look good.”
Tyler Johnson scored midway through the third period to break up the shutout bid and make the final score, 4-1.
“Obviously it’s been a tough stretch, but [I] would rather score when it actually matters, so I don’t really care, to be honest with you,” Johnson said. “It’s been pretty difficult, obviously. It’s tough all the way around. You’re not getting the results. The road trip we were on (1-4-0 from March 16-25), it just kind of seems like everything is just building up and you have a lot on your shoulders right now, but we’ve got to relax a little bit. Instead of getting upset and mad, you kind of have to just find it within each other to play for each other and be happy and make things a little bit more fun.”
Luke Glendening scored seven minutes into the third period for a 4-0 lad to the Stars.
Alex Stalock made 26 saves in the loss.
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