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Dallas Never Trailed, But This 5-3 Win Was Anything But Normal
The Stars never trailed Thursday at SAP Center, but they still managed to make a “comfortable” win feel like a fever dream.
Dallas built a lead, took a few weird detours, and still walked out with a win, the kind of game where you look up and think, how did we get here again?
Between a top line that keeps printing offense and a special-teams unit that refuses to blink, the Stars played like a team that can win pretty… or win goofy. Either works.
The headline (again) is Rantanen-to-Johnston looking like a cheat code, especially with the man advantage. Johnston tacked on another power-play goal because of course he did, and he also cashed one at 5-on-5, a nice little reminder for anyone wondering if he can stack points at even strength.
The finish was pure confidence: sell the defender, create space, and rip it. Rantanen chipped in with two primary assists and kept climbing the Finnish scoring history ladder, while Johnston looked like a guy making a loud argument that he belongs on every big-stage roster conversation.
And when San Jose tried to make it uncomfortable late, Dallas’ penalty kill slammed the door… with style. The Stars went 3-for-3 on the kill, highlighted by an absolutely ridiculous Colin Blackwell sequence that was part blocked shot, part puck race, part “basketball handles in hockey gloves,” and all guts.
Add in the wacky Hryckowian gift goal off adventurous goaltending, a Jamie Benn empty-netter, and a birthday win for Jake Oettinger, and you’ve got a road game that wasn’t always clean, but was very Stars: opportunistic, annoying to play against, and weirdly inevitable.
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Now, with the defense, after playing a key role in the teams three game winning streak earlier in the season, and now returning to its struggling ways, Eberflus said he’s heading to the coaches’ booth to call plays in search of a reset.
“It’s a real chance to get a good perspective… we think it’s going to be a good adjustment.”
Jerry Jones made it clear the excuses are running out, and with Dallas sitting near the bottom of the league in yards, passing defense, scoring defense, red-zone defense, and third-down defense, how this unit finishes the season might decide a whole lot more than just a game plan.
The Texas Rangers’ coaching staff is getting a major facelift this season, and the organization is betting that shake-up is exactly what this team needed.
After two disappointing years, the front office turned over much of the staff in hopes of hitting the reset button on both culture and performance.
When the new coaches met the media today, the message was clear: the Rangers believe the talent is already in the room, now it’s on this staff to unlock it and turn it into results.
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Ali Jawad
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