When the Dallas Stars put the eponymous Fak 'Em line together, uniting the services of Ales Hemsky, Radek Faksa and Antoine Roussel, it seemed like an odd fit on paper. You had a promising rookie center with the most enigmatic player on the team as well as the one most likely to end up spouting profanity in multiple languages.
But the three incredibly disparate players have melded their collective strengths into a heck of a third line, one that deservedly picked up the game winning goal in the Stars 4-0 Game 1 victory over the Minnesota Wild on Thursday night.