Ken Hitchcock wants the Dallas Stars’ brightest lights to start playing like them, and he’s becoming increasingly blunt about it.
If you saw Hitchcock’s postgame interview last night, you saw him offer praise to the goaltending tandem of Ben Bishop and Kari Lehtonen on the backhand of a direct slap to the team’s brilliant but largely fallow forward corps:
"We're going to need both our guys, quite frankly, to be the story in the second half," Hitchcock said of Bishop and [Lehtonen]. "We're going to have to move ahead of 10th or 11th place in goals against.