The Dallas Stars’ power play has awakened over recent weeks, adding more fuel to a potent attack that grows stronger by the day. Dallas entered last month’s Four Nation’s Face-Off break with the 21st ranked power-play unit out of all 32 NHL teams. Now, the Stars rank 15th after an incredible run — going 10-for-23 since resuming the regular season, including a perfect 4-for-4 effort in Sunday’s 6-3 win over the St. Louis Blues.
“Just the way it feels right now, everyone just kind of has that swagger when we go out there,” forward Wyatt Johnston said after Sunday’s win. “It feels like we’re going to score every time. That’s just a big thing, and I think with that, the chemistry builds — knowing where guys are, where to find those seams, where to expose penalty kills.”
Big-Time Players Make Big-Time Plays for the Dallas Stars Power Play
Part of what has helped the Dallas Stars power play work so well over the last five games is the re-emergence of many of their top players. Players like Matt Duchene and Mason Marchment carried the load early in the season. Now, Johnston, Roope Hintz, Jason Robertson, and others have worked their way back from slow starts and injuries to become major factors in the team’s recent success.
The power play results seem to directly reflect the team’s recent success. The Stars are 5-1 since returning to the ice and have scored at least one power-play goal in each win. They did not have a power-play goal in a February loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets.
Marchment has not been playing on the power play units since returning from injury, but he notices a different confidence in his teammates who are on the ice for the man-advantage.
“Those guys are rolling,” Marchment remarked. “It looks fun out there, and it definitely gives our team a boost when they’re rolling like that. … It can win and lose games, so it’s huge.”
Marchment has played in 43 games this season and has 31 points. He was a huge part of the Stars’ second line before his injury and is coming along slowly as he returns to the lineup. He missed the entire month of January and has only had four points since, but a resurgence could be on the horizon.
“I’m starting to feel a little bit more like myself,” Marchment said. “Not too many games played over the last couple months, so it’s just once to kind of start to feel back to normal.”
Getting Marchment back to the level he was before the injury would make the Stars even more dangerous.
Winning Now Helps Prepare for the Playoffs
The Dallas Stars have been one of the winningest teams in the NHL in 2025, boasting an 18-6-1 record and winning five of their last six. It’s an impressive run. However, what’s even more impressive is the different ways they’ve earned those wins.
They returned from the Four Nations Face-Off with a win over the Anaheim Ducks in which they led wire to wire. Dallas needed a Wyatt Johnston empty-net goal to put it out of reach. Robertson followed that with a second-period hat trick to put away the New York Islanders, and it turns out Dallas needed every bit of it.
Dallas’s 6-2 win over the Los Angeles Kings was the most impressive as it scored in every period and led by at least two goals throughout most of the game as it kept its foot on the gas for 60 minutes. Sunday’s win was a one-goal game entering the final period, and Johnston came through with two more goals to seal the victory.
Tuesday saw the Stars surrender a 3-1 lead as the New Jersey Devils tied the game with a little over four minutes left. Yet, Thomas Harley ripped one into the goal in the waning seconds to help Dallas escape with a regulation win.
“You’ve got to win so many different ways come playoff time,” Johnston added. “I think, as a group, there’s just that resiliency and that ‘no quit’ attitude where we feel we can win any game. Any night, any game, we can win. … Come playoff time, you have to win so many different ways, so it’s good to build that confidence and trust as a group heading up to the playoffs.”
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