In Dallas, Ben Bishop made 36 saves for the Stars in a 4-1 win over the visiting Colorado Avalanche on Tuesday night.
The win was the fourth straight for the Stars.
Radek Faksa struck twice for Dallas.
“I think hockey’s about confidence, and we have lots of confidence right now,” Faksa said. “We knew we had a great team. We had to just put a puzzle together, and we did it the last eight games. We have to just keep going and keep winning because it’s hard to make playoffs in this league.”
J.T. Compher scored the lone Avs goal.
“We haven’t started well in the last four or five games,” Colorado’s Matt Calvert said. “So it’s nothing new to us. It’s something we got to figure out in here as a team. We’ve got to raise the bar and expect more of ourselves.”
Jason Dickinson and Corey Perry had single markers for the Stars.
“I think it’s easy to say that those first five games, I wasn’t playing my best hockey and I didn’t necessarily deserve to get any bounces,” Dickinson said. “But since then, I feel like I’ve been playing a lot of good minutes and playing hard hockey, so it’s nice to finally be rewarded with the bounce that goes in.”
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Philipp Grubauer made 34 saves in the loss.
“Right now, we are definitely not playing our best and we just can’t find a way to win,” Avalanche forward Andre Burakovsky said.
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