Dallas Stars Daily Links: Healthy Jamie Benn Keys Stars Offensive Outburst

by Erin Bolen on Feb 2, 2012 6:01 AM CST in Dallas Stars Daily Links

Eric Nystrom put it better than I ever could.

@enystrom24: huge win! Gotta keep it rollin. @jamiebenn14 got his appendix out, n an injection of dangles at the same time! #NotMorphine #GuysAbeast

Although he had a strong showing in the NHL All-Star festivities, Wednesday was the first time in more than two weeks that Dallas Stars fans got to see Jamie Benn with the rest of his teammates, and the results were immediate.

Benn's semi-breakaway goal gave the Stars a two-goal lead they would never lose in a 6-2 victory over the Anaheim Ducks, and he also pulled linemates Michael Ryder and Steve Ott out of offensive slumps. Ryder also had a goal and two assists, and Ott had a pair of assists and a great screen on a Sheldon Souray goal.

I'm going to cheat a little bit and grab something from a story that actually was posted before the game, mostly because I think this quote from Anaheim coach Bruce Boudreau is fabulous.

"I thought (Benn) was a pretty good player, but i didn't think he was going to turn out to be the player he is,'' Boudreau said. "I think he's one of the finest young players in the league that nobody knows about. If this kid was in Toronto, they'd be making statues of him."

After the jump, more on the Stars win over the Ducks, a local continues to move up the Ottawa Senators system and controversial clock management in Los Angeles.

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The Stars were looking for a quick start out of the All-Star break, and they absolutely got it on Wednesday. [ESPN Dallas]
So we thought this team was all healthy, but it turns out the DeathFlu is still going around the locker room, taking out Nicklas Grossman on Wednesday. Also note the short but promising Glen Gulutzan quote. [DallasNews.com]
Remember when the Stars played an okay game against the Minnesota Wild save 59 seconds of utter garbage? The Ducks kind of felt like that on Wednesday as they gave up two goals in 69 seconds and three goals in just under four minutes. [Los Angeles Times]
Even our friends at Anaheim Calling were struggling to find positives for the Ducks after that game. [Anaheim Calling]
Not only do the Dallas Stars have too many defensemen up, but the Texas Stars soon will as well as they called up Jace Coyle from the ECHL to bring their d-corps to eight, though a couple of those are battling injuries. [Hundred Degree Hockey]
The first few grafs of this story are a really pained attempt to make hockey relevant to National Signing Day (for the uninitiated, that's the first day high school football players can officially sign with a college), but the rest of the top section is an interesting update on Plano-raised prospect Stefan Noesen, who recently signed with the Ottawa Senators. [MLive.com]
Looking a few games down the road, Mikko Koivu is making the trip with the Wild and might be ready to play by the time they get to Dallas. [Minneapolis Star-Tribune]
Jere Lehtinen gave a lengthy interview to a Chicago-area outlet? It makes sense when you know that the writer used to cover the Stars for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. And Lehtinen is onboard with the idea that Marian Hossa should be a Selke candidate. [CSN Chicago]
Brad Richards only has three assists since Dec. 9, and even though his team is still winning, there's some frustration there. There was more Wednesday when his struggles in the shootout continued as his New York Rangers lost 4-3 in the special-teams contest to the Devils. [New York Daily News]
Meet the enemy, part the first: The big news from San Jose Sharks land was the presence of Milwaukee Brewers player Nyjer Morgan at practice. [San Jose Mercury News]
Meet the enemy, part the second: With the Sharks definitely the playoff picture, there are also some trade rumors out there, including one involving Paul Gaustad of the Buffalo Sabres. [Fear the Fin]
Around the Pacific Division: The Los Angeles Kings got a buzzer-beating goal from Drew Doughy to take a 3-2 regulation win over the Columbus Blue Jackets. More on the end of this game in a bit. [Los Angeles Times]
This type of story pops up a couple times a year, but it's always awesome when someone gets arrested for driving a zamboni under the influence. [KSDK]
So that Kings-Jackets game? This is what happened on the clock at the end of it. See if you can spot where the problems may have occurred. We'll see if anything comes of this. I'll also link a summary with some quotes, but the video is too blatant to pass up. [Puck Daddy]

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Wow, are you kidding me?

It’s a good thing the Jackets aren’t in the playoff race, or this would be an insanely huge deal.

Now it’s just a huge deal instead… the league definitely needs to do something, but the question is “what?” Fire the guy and issue a memo?

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by Tsudbury on Feb 2, 2012 6:27 AM CST reply actions

Fire the guy for a one time transgression the officials should be able to fix?

The officials should be keeping time on the ice. Problem solved.

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by Josh Lile on Feb 2, 2012 8:00 AM CST up reply actions

I think they do that in the NBA all the time.

If the clock messes up, they grab a stop watch or timer and sync it up with how it should be.

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by Tsudbury on Feb 2, 2012 8:09 AM CST up reply actions

I don't know about the NBA, but that's how the NFL works.

by Josh Lile on Feb 2, 2012 8:18 AM CST up reply actions

It amazes that Toronto doesn't have control of this.

I mean, it isn’t hard. You buzz the arena for review and do one of two things. 1. Clock malfunction, restart play with the amount of time that the clock inadvertently stopped, or 2. Put a stopwatch to it to see if the goal would still count, which it doesn’t in this case. Just absolutely unreal they don’t have a contingency for something like this.

Yeah, it doesn’t matter for Columbus, but what if that extra point that LA may or may not have gotten in OT gives them a playoff spot. With the NHL’s refusal to put a better points system in place, this mistake could be magnified depending on how LA finishes.

by d1owls4life on Feb 2, 2012 8:33 AM CST up reply actions

It amazes you? Its Toronto after all.

by iHorses on Feb 2, 2012 8:56 AM CST up reply actions

I guess it shouldn't.

Not like the league has a competent leader. Just seems like something like this should have been in the replay rules from the get go.

by d1owls4life on Feb 2, 2012 9:46 AM CST up reply actions

That is blatant. My goodness...

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by DFWTrojanTuba on Feb 2, 2012 11:13 AM CST up reply actions

Apparently, they just missed it.

ESPN article says they reviewed the goal, didn’t see the error til minutes after the game was over. Goal shouldn’t have counted but they couldn’t do anything about it at that point.

by d1owls4life on Feb 2, 2012 12:52 PM CST up reply actions

Makes me wonder how many times arenas have pulled this crap without anyone noticing because there was no goal.

by Sugaa on Feb 2, 2012 1:18 PM CST up reply actions

unreal

Never seen anything like that. Good job the Jackets suck, or there might have been more made of it!

by Matt Wright on Feb 2, 2012 7:23 AM CST via iPhone app reply actions

Wow.

That’s crazy that it happened to stop for almost exactly the amount of time that remained when the puck went in.

They’ve got to do something about that. Is that within the realm of what Shanahan deals with? What they should do, assuming they play again, is give Columbus 1 point and give LA 1 point and make them play an OT session before the next game. That’d at least be fair to the Blue Jackets.

by Travis Drybread on Feb 2, 2012 7:47 AM CST reply actions

Also at the very end, it looks like Sanford is point up toward the clock questioning it.

After he made that initial save he probably looked up at the clock and saw that it wasn’t moving.

by Travis Drybread on Feb 2, 2012 7:49 AM CST reply actions

The writer for the Ducks blog makes a joke about attendance in the article.

He says since the arena was half empty he thought it was a Stars home game.

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by T-rom on Feb 2, 2012 7:53 AM CST reply actions

Lehtinen's views on the Selke are pretty interesting.

"You have to choose what to do. Do you pinch in the offensive zone or do you go down deep? If you start dancing a little bit, thinking, ‘Should I go or no?’ then you lose them in an odd-man rush," he said. "It’s just being in the right place right position most of the time."

He isn’t describing pure defense. He’s describing the transition game as the basis for being considered the leagues top defensive forward. If you apply that same definition to the Stars then the top defensive forwards are Benn, Eriksson, Dvorak, and Ott in some order, which, I guess, is pretty much in line with how I’d think anyway.

by Josh Lile on Feb 2, 2012 8:17 AM CST reply actions

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Well, I’d like to see what the deal is with the clock management, but the twitter tags are covering the clock, so….. I have no idea what the big deal is.

by Byakhee on Feb 2, 2012 9:49 AM CST reply actions