It took a lot of line combinations and the exquisite play of Valeri Nichushkin to play a solid 60 minutes against the Vancouver Canucks for the 20th win in just 26 games into the 2015-2016 Dallas Stars season.
It feels strange to talk about the Dallas Stars' recent struggles. They're the first team in the NHL to hit 20 wins. They're 2nd in Shots For Per Game, and 1st in the NHL in Goals For per game.
But they're coming off an embarrassing loss to the Calgary Flames; a defeat that felt like a culmination of recent Stars' games where they seemed to struggle at times, and failed to dominate in ways their record suggests.