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Stars Down Blue Jackets To Win 5th In A Row

No matter who comes in and out of the lineup, the Dallas Stars just keep on keeping on in the win column.

Dallas took down the Columbus Blue Jackets 5-3 at the American Airlines Center on Sunday night.

New Stars Mikael Granlund and Cody Ceci made their Dallas debuts after being traded over from the Sharks on Saturday night.

However, the former Sharks duo were not the only players to join the lineup for the Stars, Mason Marchment returned for the first time in 17 games.

Marchment returned resoundingly, deflecting home a point shot to tie the game at one at 13:36 in the first period.

The legs felt pretty good. I mean sometimes it can take a little bit to get into the timing of things but for the most part I felt pretty good and like I said it’s nice to be back out there playing,” Marchment said.

“[I saw] how hard we work and how much we want to win. I think there were games while I was out watching that easily could’ve [gone] the other way and the guys really bared down and found a way. I think good teams find a way to win when you don’t have your best and I thought we did that quite a bit.”

Adam Fantilli gave the lead back to the Jackets at 4:58 of the second period but it wouldn’t take long for Dallas to knot things once again.

Granlund wasted no time in making an impact by setting up Logan Stankoven on a cross-ice feed to tie the game at two.

However, the Jackets weren’t done there, Ivan Provorov fired one past Casey DeSmith to make it 3-2.

Once again, the Stars had an answer this time thanks to Wyatt Johnston who tipped one home on the power play to tie things at three.

In the 3rd period, it was Evgenii Dadonov who took over the game and eventually led Dallas to a win.

Dadonov continued the deflection party by tipping home his own at 11:22 to give the Stars a 4-3 lead.

At 15:47 Dadonov finished a wrap-around that put the game in the bag for the Stars and made it 5-3.

“First off, I thought [Columbus] played a really solid game. You can tell why they have the record they have,” Dallas coach Pete DeBoer said. “They make you earn your offense. They’re direct, they’re fast, they have some good young players there. I thought we grinded and battled and, a lot like the streak we’ve been on, we didn’t beat ourselves. We found a way to weather the storm when we needed to and found a big goal when we needed to.”

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