For most years in the Victory Green era, I would say the Dallas Stars would have been considered to be a “One Line Team.” At first it was Tyler Seguin, Jamie Benn, and whoever they slapped net to their wing. Then it became a “superline” team when they threw in Jason Spezza into the trio, followed by Alexander Radulov. And who could forget the “Minutemen,” Jason Robertson, Roope Hintz, and Joe Pavelski?
That narrative has died down in recent years thanks to the Stars developing some stronger scoring depth (at least in theory). So last night was a throwback of sorts where, due to a plague of injuries forcing the Stars to go 7-11 with many key forwards out of the lineup, the Stars decided that their game was going to revolve entirely around three players: Robertson, Wyatt Johnston, and Mikko Rantanen.