Denis Gurianov’s overtime winner on Monday was so clean, so perfect, you could swear he’s done it a hundred times.
Well, he has actually — the Dallas Stars winger has spent a lot of time working on his one-timer, and it all paid off on the biggest stage of his young NHL career:
“Every practice, he’s taking so many one-timers,” Stars center Tyler Seguin said. “He’s out there early, he stays on late. There’s been no conversations with him being a rookie, saying ‘Hey you’ve got to do this.