The view from Dallas

It’s hard to imagine how the Dallas Stars could have been much happier Monday night, after they rallied from deficits three times and finished their huge four-game Pacific Division road trip with a 3-0-1 record, capped by a 4-3 overtime win over the Kings. Here’s a sampling of how the game was reported by Dallas-based media, followed by some additional postgame quotes from the Stars’ locker room.

With OT win, Stars finish critical West Coast trip 3-0-1, move to fifth (Dallas Morning News)

Crawford: Ott shouldn’t receive supplemental discipline (Dallas Morning News)

Resilient Stars wrap up stellar trip with win (ESPNDallas.com)

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COACH MARC CRAWFORD
(on the possibility for supplemental discipline on Steve Ott…) “It was a tough call and, at the time, you take away a very good player for us and on a very marginal call after he was fending off five of the Los Angeles Kings. So I doubt that there would be anything that would come of that.”

(on the play of Mike Ribeiro’s play…) “It makes a lot of difference for us. He had the puck on a string. He was pretty determined with the puck. He logged a lot of ice time for us, killed some penalties, was pretty good on the power play for us, and of course those goals that he helped to set up. He did a terrific job of going into the danger areas, and the Kings are a hard team to penetrate the middle on. They’re big defensemen and their back-checking forwards don’t allow you to get it very often. You have to be very brave to go there, and Mike is and he got a payoff all the times that he did.”

BRENDEN MORROW
(on coming back from behind to win…) “I think this group’s been good about that all year. Last year, years past, that may have been something that we weren’t mentally tough enough to overcome, but we kind of just wiped those things away and go back and try to steal them in the next shift and guys getting some big goal. That shorthanded goal by Benner [Jamie Benn] was huge.”

(on his goal…) “Ribi [Mike Ribeiro] kind of mesmerizes people with the puck. He just comes in with a pretty slow developing play. Not sure if he passed it to me or if I stole it, but I just chipped it back to myself and it found a hole. It wasn’t real hard, it was just a quick shot and I don’t think he [Jonathan Bernier] got time to get set.”

(on why it’s hard to play the Kings…) “Their depth, I think. They’ve got three really strong lines and finish checks, depth in every position, their D is strong. They’ve got the skill guy in each (defensive) group with Doughty, Johnson, Martinez. I think just their depth is what makes them difficult to play.”

JAMIE BENN
(on his goal…) “Kind of just (a) lucky bounce there, I guess. Just knocked it out of the air and it kind of just stuck with me. I went down and made my move.”