I thought I would share the video I took of Wyatt's goal yesterday.

Sharing a video from Inside the Coaches' Room on the structure that the Stars are using now. Petey does a great job in his videos breaking down hockey and this one really pinpoints why the Stars' defensive numbers are so good this season.

Wyatt Johnston, Dallas Stars

2 goals in 9 games

Johnston was held off the board for seven straight games to open this season. The longer he went without a goal, the more he upped his shot volume.

He attempted 34 shots in all situations in his first five games, for an average of 6.8 attempts per game. Against the Chicago Blackhawks, he upped that to nine attempts. Johnston attempted 11 against the Bruins three nights later. And then, he finally cashed in last Thursday against the Winnipeg Jets, and again on Sunday against the New York Islanders.

Unlike players like Geekie and Point, there aren’t any glaring dips that have raised alarm bells under the hood. If anything, the opposite is true despite that seven-game goal drought.

It would have been one thing if Johnston’s slow start was due to the Stars’ lack of power-play success, considering how pivotal those situations were to his scoring last year. That’s where Johnston scored 27 of his 45 goals last season, and 42 of his 86 points. But this season, even through that slow start in the goal column, there are already upticks at five-on-five that show promise. Mikko Rantanen is attempting (and completing) more passes to the slot and moving the puck more in transition, which is helping facilitate Johnston’s scoring chance generation with 9.67 slot attempts per 60.

Anyone who hasn’t bought their tickets yet for stars caps at capital one interested in seeing if we could get a block of tickets together? The last three years I’ve lived here there’s always a smattering of stars fans (evidenced by the yelling of “stars” during the anthem), could be fun to have a visitors supporters section like they do in soccer.