Dallas Stars

The Dallas Stars are perfectly comfortable playing on back-to-back nights. Marty Turco earned his second shutout of the season, and Brenden Morrow scored his 10th goal and assisted on Jere Lehtinen's 17th, leading the Dallas Stars to a 2-0 victory over the Senators on Thursday night at Ottawa. Turco stopped 25 shots for his 23rd career shutout as Dallas recovered from Wednesday's 4-3 loss in Buffalo.

Joe Nieuwendyk is again coming through for the Dallas Stars when they need him most. Nieuwendyk redirected a long blast from Richard Matvichuk 12:10 into overtime Tuesday night, giving the Dallas Stars a 3-2 victory over the Colorado Avalanche and putting the Stanley Cup champions within a win of returning to the finals. "We had some good luck there," Nieuwendyk said. "It seemed like the only way to get to the net is to outrace a guy. I was able to do that and just got my stick on it."

DETROIT -- The Detroit Red Wings kept rolling without their hottest player. Darren Helm and Henrik Zetterberg scored first-period goals to help make up for the loss of Johan Franzen and Detroit held on for a 2-1 victory Saturday night over the Dallas Stars and a 2-0 lead in the Western Conference finals. Stephane Robidas tied the score at 1-1 midway through the first period, but the Stars struggled to get shots to or past Chris Osgood.

Brett Hull and Mike Modano came through when needed by the Dallas Stars. Hull scored a goal in his fourth consecutive game and Modano extended his point streak to a season-high seven games as the Stars defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning, 4-1, Friday night at Tampa, Fla. "I've never seen a team so unselfish. . . . We don't care who scores and we don't care who gets the ice time," Hull said. Modano and Hull scored second-period goals as Dallas rebounded from a 1-0 deficit.

After celebrating an NHL title won with a gritty defense, the Dallas Stars showed Friday night why they believe they can repeat as champions with a juiced-up offense. Mike Modano scored twice and Brett Hull and Joe Nieuwendyk each had a goal and two assists as the Stars beat the Pittsburgh Penguins, 6-4, in the opener, spoiling Mario Lemieux's debut as the owner of his former team.

Mike Modano, taking a cross-ice pass from Brett Hull, scored the tying goal with less than six minutes left in regulation as the Dallas Stars kept the Boston Bruins winless by salvaging a 2-2 tie Friday night at Dallas. Carolina 4, Vancouver 1--Ron Francis had an assist to tie Mario Lemieux for sixth place on the NHL career points list in helping the Hurricanes win at Vancouver. Hurricane goaltender Eric Fichaud made his first start in over 10 months.

Mike Modano scored his first goal of the playoffs and Marty Turco had another shutout, lifting the Dallas Stars to a 2-0 victory Saturday night and sending their series against the Canucks back to Vancouver for a deciding Game 7 on Monday. Turco stopped 21 shots in his third career playoff shutout -- all in this first-round Western Conference series.

Mike Modano scored to spark a three-goal second period as the Dallas Stars defeated the Calgary Flames, 3-2, Monday night at Calgary. Brian Skrudland and Sergei Zubov also scored for the Stars (15-5-3). Roman Turek, getting a rare start, made 23 saves for Dallas and remained unbeaten (3-0-2) in five starts. In the second period, Modano was hooked off the puck from behind by a high stick from Valeri Bure that caught Modano in the face.

The Dallas Stars were hot but Ottawa Senator goaltender Damian Rhodes was hotter. Rhodes stopped 34 shots for his third shutout of the season and Chris Murray broke up a scoreless game midway through the third period as the Senators ended the Stars' 10-game unbeaten streak with a 2-0 victory Wednesday night at Dallas. Dallas was 7-0-3 over its previous 10 games and fell two games short of matching the franchise record for longest unbeaten streak set in the 1981-82 season.

Goaltender Marty Turco stopped 13 shots in his first shutout of the season and made Brenden Morrow's power-play goal stand up, giving the Dallas Stars a 1-0 victory over the Phoenix Coyotes on Thursday night at Glendale, Ariz. Curtis Joseph made 34 saves for Phoenix to hold up his end of the goalie showdown, but Morrow's second-period goal was the difference. Morrow took a pass from Sergei Zubov to the right of the crease and flipped the puck over Joseph's glove.