The Dallas Stars were built as a loaded team to win this season.
On Monday night in Ottawa, the Senators handed the Stars a 4-1 loss on Craig Anderson‘s 37-save effort.
Rookie Maxime Lajoie scored in his third straight game to fuel the offense.
“I don’t think I’ve went on a, I guess, heater like this in a while,” said Lajoie, a fifth-round pick (No. 133) by the Senators at the 2016 NHL Draft. “Even in junior (Swift Current of the Western Hockey League), it was just kind of maybe every second game or something like that. But no, it’s a pretty good feeling.”
Brady Tkachuk, Mikkel Boedker and Zack Smith also scored for the Sens.
“The fun I think is just watching our young guys step up and start contributing at a rapid rate at the moment,” Anderson said. “Guys have just kind of crept in and filled those roles where guys weren’t maybe expecting them to. That’s fun, just watching these kids go out there and have a blast.”
John Klingberg scored the lone goal for the Stars.
“I think [Klingberg’s] confident right now and shooting the puck a lot,” said Stars coach Jim Montgomery, “which is good for the power play and should be good for us 5-on-5.”
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Ben Bishop made 20 saves in the loss.
“I didn’t really think there was all that much momentum to the game. It was kind of like the least energetic game that we’ve played and that we’ve been a part of. I really liked our first period, but then I didn’t like us after that. We didn’t play with the same purpose,” Montgomery said after the listless loss.
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