Bernier gets a chance to build on win

Jonathan Bernier will be starting consecutive games for the first time this season and will be making his second career start against Dallas. In March of last season, when Jonathan Quick’s wife went into labor, Bernier came up from Manchester and stopped 29 of 30 shots in a 2-1 shootout victory over the Stars in Dallas. Bernier is coming off a 24-save effort in Saturday’s 5-2 win over Edmonton, and Terry Murray was asked, this morning, about any differences in Bernier in that game, as opposed to his two previous games, which didn’t go well…

MURRAY: “A win. Win the games. Sometimes it doesn’t have to be pretty. You can win and play ugly, and you’re still happy at the end of the day. You can play great and you lose and you’re not happy. The bottom line is, he won the game. He made some very big stops at critical times. It’s a 3-2 game, and I know we mismanaged the puck a couple times there in our D zone and he had to come up big, which he did. There were a couple big saves on penalty-killing, and that’s always critical for us, to have good special teams. He gave us what we needed, at the end of the day. … He settled in. I thought his game became confident as we got into the second and third periods. It’s been a while since he has faced the game situations, and he adjusted very quickly to it.”