Stars Hope To Salvage Road Trip in D.C. Tonight

Sometimes the game of hockey gets over-complicated. In an effort to add secondary scoring, you can destroy what you know already works.

The forward line combinations from Sunday night’s game in Detroit are a great example. I give you Jamie Benn and Radek Faksa from last year (plus is good for offense and bad for defense):

Admittedly, at 131 minutes together, this is not a humongous sample size. There is, however, nothing here that would indicate found gold.