The Dallas Stars tried, at least. Head coach Ken Hitchcock attempted to shuffle his forward lines to balance out some offensive production, putting Jamie Benn at center, sandwiched in between Devin Shore on the left and Alexander Radulov on the right.
The first line was followed by Tyler Seguin centering Remi Elie and Mattias Janmark on line two, while the third and fourth lines remained mostly unchanged: Antoine Roussel – Radek Faksa – Tyler Pitlick, Gemel Smith – Jason Spezza – Brett Ritchie.
Sometime in the second period of Saturday’s 5-3 loss to the visiting Winnipeg Jets at American Airlines Center, Hitchcock had had enough, pinning Benn, Seguin, and Radulov back together to try and spark a comeback effort (it worked to a degree, as Seguin and Radulov each later scored).