In Dallas, the Stars won their first regulation decision of the season, 5-2, over the Philadelphia Flyers, on Saturday night.
“It’s one [game],” the Stars’ Joe Pavelski said. “We understand we can’t get it all back in a week. We just have to keep going out there and focus on what we are doing day to day.”
Dallas improved to 5-6-2.
Anton Khudobin made 31 saves in the Stars win.
“You don’t want to have 60 shots [against] every game,” Khudobin said. “It’s the bottom line. But if you are, then what else do you have to do? You have to go and stop every shot. If there’s 20 shots, great. It’s kind of your night off.”
James van Riemsdyk (power play) and Ivan Provorov were the Flyers goal scorers.
“I thought we came to play,” Philadelphia head coach Alain Vigneault said. “We had some Grade-A looks, should have been able to capitalize on a few of those looks.”
Roope Hintz and Luke Glendening had a goal each and two points in the Dallas win.
“It was a game that challenged us again early,” Pavelski said. “I got off to a bad start taking a couple of penalties and putting the guys in a tough spot, but the [penalty] killers did a tremendous job. We get the lead, and [Khudobin] was awesome in the first. It was good and it allowed us to get our game going.”
Dallas’ Tyler Seguin helped the Stars take a 3-1 lead in the middle frame.
“In the second period, we didn’t manage the puck as well as we did in that first period, which gave them counterattack opportunities,” Vigneault said. “They had some good chances in the first, [Jones] had to come up big on a few of those. But I thought for the most part we carried most of the play.”
Pavelski made it 4-1 in the early minutes of the third stanza.
“I thought our second [power-play] unit, especially the first two [opportunities] in the first period, we were throwing great looks, great chances,” the Flyers’ Ryan Ellis said. “All-in-all, for our unit tonight, we moved the puck really well and had some dangerous chances.”
Radek Faksa added a late empty-net goal for the 5-2 final.
Martin Jones made 26 saves in the Philadelphia loss.
“We knew it was going to be a hard game,” Provorov said. “Sometimes that happens where it’s a game where you’re going to outplay your opponent and they’re going to come out winning at the end of the period. I think we just got away from our game in the second and that’s what hurt us.”
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